Quotes

[New Guy]

" Die hard, my men, die hard"......Col. William Inglis, 57th Foot ( Middlesex Regiment) Albuera.


Origin of the expression, 'a diehard'


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[Brill]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

 

[Brill]

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

-Albert Einstein

 

[afterhours]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

funny to hear that from a president of a nation that for decades if not centuries threatens and uses guns and warships against those who happen to own oil

 

[Brill]

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

- Dorothy Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game show.

 

[doggee_01]

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler

 

[Berlin]

"Every man's work, whether it is literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

- Samuel Butler (1612-80), English poet, author

 

[Berlin]

We need capitalism. That harnesses the power of the river: greed, selfishness. But you need dams and locks on that river or else it floods everybody.

- Bill Maher

 

[Berlin]

"Without music life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 

[trm]

Since the war, especially, editors have come to believe that their highest duty is not to report but to instruct, not to print news but to save civilization, not to publish what Benjamin Harris calls "the Circumstances of Publique Affairs, both abroad and at home," but to keep the nation on the straight and narrow path. Like the Kings of England they have appointed themselves Defenders of the Faith....The work of reporters has thus become confused with the work of preachers, revivalists, prophets and agitators. The current theory of American newspaperdom is that an abstraction like the truth and a grace like fairness must be sacrificed whenever anyone thinks the necessities of civilization require the sacrifice.

Walter Lippmann-Liberty and the News (1920)

 

[GG2]

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck."

Robert A. Heinlein

 

[Brill]

"The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics."

~ Christopher Hitchens

 

[shack]

"The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics."

~ Christopher Hitchens

I can do without 3 of those.

 

[Blue-Spheroid]

I can do without 3 of those.

Same here. I couldn't give up lobster either.

 

[BackToTheHobby]

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

~Hunter S. Thompson

 

[Berlin]

"The laws of nature aren't simply a set of parameters that constrain the behavior of the natural world

but a set of tools that allow you to predict the future and engineer the world for favorable outcomes,"

- John Rogers, winner of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize for outstanding inventor.

 

[Berlin]

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

- Oscar Wilde

 

[pickupartist]

what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, \
those who succeed reduce their time between failures

 

[jazzpig]

It's not what you do, it's what you get done.

- Ex-Boss

 

[jackflerj]

What goes around, comes around.