Quotes

[Brill]

"If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

- Malcolm X

 

[ready2rock]

He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.

- The Sphinx

R2R

 

[bobistheowl]

Once at a social gathering, John Wilkes said to the Earl of Sandwich, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."

 

[Blue-Spheroid]

Once at a social gathering, John Wilkes said to the Earl of Sandwich, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."

Disraeli was not the Earl of Sandwich. He held a seat I the British house of commons and served two terms as Prime Minister in the second part of the nineteenth century; obviously he was untitled at that time. He was later made the Earl of Beaconsfield but never held the title of Sandwich.

 

[bobistheowl]

Disraeli was not the Earl of Sandwich. He held a seat I the British house of commons and served two terms as Prime Minister in the second part of the nineteenth century; obviously he was untitled at that time. He was later made the Earl of Beaconsfield but never held the title of Sandwich.

from wikiquote.org:

" Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."

This is a misquotation of John Wilkes & the Earl of Sandwich, not Gladstone & Disraeli. ~~ AllanHainey (from history, 16:04, 16 Jun 2005)"

I was among the many who thought the exchange was between Gladstone and Disraeli. We have both been enlightened.

 

[Petzel]

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass or glory in the flower,
We will grieve not but rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth

 

[Petzel]

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

Anonymous

 

[Petzel]

I would not do that I must do today for none earthly thing.

King Henry 8th (upon having agreed to marry Anne of Cleves)

 

[Petzel]

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practise to deceive.

William Shakespeare

 

[Petzel]

Never have so many owed so much to so few.

Winston Churchill (about WW2)

 

[Petzel]

I hear the swordsman from France is good and I have but a little neck.

Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry 8th upon her beheading)

 

[Petzel]

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too and think it foul scorn of Parma or Spain or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm;

Queen Elizabeth 1st-August 9, 1588-to her troops at Tillbury in Essex prior to the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

 

[Blue-Spheroid]

We have both been enlightened.

Not really. Only you required enlightenment.

 

[Berlin]

'Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body.

Your mind and your body.

You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time.'

- Walter Breuning ,died 2011 04 , at age 114.

 

[buttercup]

Never have so many owed so much to so few.
Winston Churchill (about WW2)

"Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."

WC said it about the RAF fighter pilots after the battle of Britain in 1940.

 

[buttercup]

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practise to deceive.
William Shakespeare

"Oh! what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive."

Sir Walter Scott.

 

[Petzel]

Thanks for the corrections buttercup.

 

[SweetSerenity]

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
-W.H. Auden

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
-Mark Twain

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
-Socrates

 

[ready2rock]

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
- A. Whitney Brown

R2R

 

[ogibowt]

what me worry...Alfred E Newman