Winston was the quote miester of his day. I once read that he never claimed to be the “British Lion” although on occassion he was happy to roar on it’s behalf.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
~Edmund O’Neill
Excerpt from “Your Life Holds Unlimited Potential and Wonderful Dreams”
“If people offer their help or wisdom as you go through life, accept it gratefully. You can learn much from those who have gone before you. But never be afraid or hesitant to step off the accepted path and head off in your own direction if your heart tells you that it’s the right way for you. Always believe that you will ultimately succeed at whatever you do, and never forget the value of persistence, discipline, and determination. You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
“You’ve had your whole life to prepare for this moment. Why aren’t you ready?”
~From the movie Spartan
[quote]The3toedSloth wrote:
STR500 wrote:
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.”
-Claudius Claudianus
“Some guys just give up livin’
and start dying little by little
piece by piece.
And some guys come home from work
and wash up
and go racing in the streets.”
-Bruce Springsteen
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Wasn’t it God who said that? Oh wait Bruce is God!
“The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him judgment of his pers, is in the highest degreeodious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
“We are entering a period in human histoey that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid. The most hopeful prospect is that the question will NOT be answered: if it receives a definite answer, that answer can only be that humans were a kind of biological error, using their allotted 100,000 years to destroy themselves and, in the process, much else.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it” -Oscar Wilde
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing” -Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much” -Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was a smart man.
Oscar Wilde tries too hard. When you read one of his plays, it reads more like a quote book than a play. There’s something really pathetic about someone who’s constantly trying to prove his own intelligence.[/quote]
It?s the same with “Wilhelm Tell”, a play by Schiller.
Parts of it are one quote after another which is annoying until you realize that they weren?t quotes when Schiller wrote them down.