Favorite Quotes

[Onearmy]

I'm bored. Heres another useless thread for the lot of you guys.

What are some of your favorite quotes?

Mine is a quote by Robert E. Lee, "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should get to fond of it."

[Roby]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Ben Franklin


Ahem *cough* Patriot act *Cough* Ignant people.

[Manstein]

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
-Mark Twain

"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it the Voice of God."
-Mark Twain

[Lord Justin]

I too, Onearmy, have been reading the loading screens of ETW, and I saw a great quote there the other day: ultima ratio regum-inscription on cannons by order of King Louis XIV (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Ultima_Ratio_Regum_Cannon.jpg). It means "the last argument of the king." I'm not sure anything can be more badass.

[biggles]

Also, from E:TW.

'Tis well.

George Washington's last word.

One less dramatic:

I never argue with the body. That's an argument you can't win.

Cosmo Kramer:D

[Onearmy]

I'm quite suprised no one said this famous quote...

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Albert Einstein


Thinking about that quote makes me shiver.

[herrvondrachen]

How 'bout:
"Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you have ruined a wonderful buiness opertunity." -Karl Marx
A rather capitalistic sentiment from a communist, eh?

[Timblesink]

"All I know is that I am not a Marxist."
- Karl Marx

[Roby]

I think marx was being sarcastic about capitalism.

[Captain Miller]

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart” -C.S. Lewis

"> Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

You can kill a lot faster shooting a gun than you can swinging a person
around you in a crowded room. "

-Usenet

[Onearmy]

Most of my new favorite quotes are ones from E:TW.

I forgot the man who said this, some quaker I think, but this is (or close to) what he said:

"Is this it? Is this what I prayed against, is this what I feared the most? Is this death? By god, I can take this!"

-Some quaker, right before he died.

[biggles]

From E:TW

-Is it a rebellion?
-No Sir, it's a revolution.

Louis XVI hears about the storming of the Bastille.

[css2d]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

"Who will guard the guards themselves?"

[Hell's High]

On the "We Stand Alone Together" documentary, one of the veterans talks of his landing on D-Day. He says something along the lines of:

"so there I was with my trench knife and about 6 candy bars in my pockets ready to take on the german army."

I thought it was kinda funny :P

Also, a more serious one "All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers." - François Fénelon

[biggles]

We’ll start the war from right here!

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Utah Beach, 6th June, 1944.

[Onearmy]

A favorite quote of mine right here, saw it on OFP:

"Much work is lost for the lack of a little more.

[DavidUpton]

"War is a continuation of politics with other means."

In ETW, but I picked that up from Cross of Iron.

[metsapeikko]

"Sweat saves blood, blood saves lifes, and brain saves both."

-Erwin Rommel

[smith1215]

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic"
-Joseph Stalin

[Lord Justin]

In the vein of badass military ones:

"The Spartans do not ask how many, but where they are."

I don't remember who it was credited to but it was from Rome TW.

[Onearmy]

I've heard so many great qoutes before, I just can't remember a lot of them :(

[biggles]

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few.

Winston had his moments:daisy:

[Exteral]

- I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly

Winston Churchill

[Hells Angel]

"Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life." - Terry Pratchett

[Onearmy]

I have not yet begun to fight!
-John Paul Jones

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
-Joan Baez

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-George S. Patton


I love Patton.

[DavidUpton]

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
-Joan Baez


Personally I don't like this one. Everyone knows how to kill, but soldiers-to-be go into training not to learn how to kill, but to learn how to kill more effectively as well as how to avoid being killed themselves.

[metsapeikko]

"STRIKE FROM THE SKY BROTHERS!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmsNZ6fj3Q) - That line just made me go... Whoah. Awesome.

[Lord Justin]

Personally I don't like this one. Everyone knows how to kill, but soldiers-to-be go into training not to learn how to kill, but to learn how to kill more effectively as well as how to avoid being killed themselves.

I totally agree. If you're going to be anti-war, at least make a good point and don't be so ignorant. There are plenty of reasons not to fight wars, but arguing that it is unnatural is just stupid.

One of my favourite quotes comes from the Tao Te Ching, Taoism's essential text. It relates very much to the Taoist idea of wu wei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei), which is something I apply to my everyday life.

"Do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles and your water is clear?"

[smith1215]

"There's a time to live, and a time to die
When it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live, but isn't it strange
That as soon as you're born you're dying?"

The Clairvoyant - Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

[EnragedPlatypus]

"What turns a man neutral? Lust for power? Gold? Or is he just born with a heart full of neutrality?"

&

"Stop exploding you cowards! (http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV12/12.mp3)"

-Zap Brannigan

[Timblesink]

"Stop exploding you cow! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYqsl4uwEo)"

-Zap Brannigan

Fix'd for that video. x]

Stupid youtube always cutting the ends off videos!

[EnragedPlatypus]

Fix'd for that video. x]

Stupid youtube always cutting the ends off videos!

Heh, yeah. I don't think you guy's would've liked the other one where it's just some guy holding a camera up to his TV while it's playing. Not to mention it has all the dialogue prior to the "Stop exploding you cowards!" line.

EDIT: Also, fixed the link with an actual sound clip :P