Quotes

[fuji]

"You can go farther in life with a polite word, and a gun, than you can with just a polite word."

Al Capone

 

[fuji]

I can't resist posting twice:

"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."

Homer (the Iliad one, not Homer Simpson)

 

[Danolo]

Its easy to be an asshole.



..Danolo

 

[baci2004]

"So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.”

E.Roosevelt.

 

[Berlin]

I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it.

- Marilyn Monroe (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953)

 

[buttercup]

No political cause is worth the life of one soldier -- except, perhaps, defending the cause that no political cause is worth the life of one soldier.

 

[Yoga Face]

Best quote ever by far . It got GB Shaw into some trouble during WW2



"The soldiers should shoot all the Generals and go home"

 

[Yoga Face]

"I resemble that remark"


Groucho Marx

 

[Yoga Face]

I do not even believe in atheism


Yoga Face

 

[WoodPeckr]

Best quote ever by far . It got GB Shaw into some trouble during WW2



"The soldiers should shoot all the Generals and go home"

LOL!
What about the politicians who pushed those Generals into war(s).....

 

[Yoga Face]

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

- Jimi Hendrix

It is important that you learn to love music, not play it

Yoga Face

 

[Yoga Face]

I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it.

- Marilyn Monroe (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953)

I am guilty as charged

 

[Yoga Face]

When asked whether Ringo was the best drummer in Rock and Roll, John Lennon famously answered:

[size=+2]"He's not even the best drummer in the band!"[/size]

After they broke up Ringo outsold them all for the first couple of years

 

[Yoga Face]

"This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog!"

TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi.

The TV journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi then flung one shoe at Bush, forcing him to duck, followed by another, which sailed over Bush's head and slammed into the wall behind him.
Throwing shoes at someone is the worst possible insult in the Arab world.

He is a hero in Iraq

He said he did it because Bush was smiling

 

[WoodPeckr]

He is a hero in Iraq

He said he did it because Bush was smiling

He's a HERO to many in the USA to....

 

[Berlin]

Like it or not, we’re still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

- Bill Maher

 

[Berlin]

Religion is bad. Drugs are good.

- Bill Maher

 

[afterhours]

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Groucho Marx

(he must have been booking outcalls every once in a while)

 

[afterhours]

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

 

[KylieTO]

I apologize if any of these have been said.. (I don't have the patience for 92 pages, although I loved the ones I've read so far).. These are a few of my favorite quotes I've read over the years.

"Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway." (unknown)

"I have not failed. I have found 10, 000 ways that don't work." -Thomas Edison

"Beauty gets attention. Personality captures the heart." (unknown)

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Einstein