One from a friends bag of quotes,
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same...
-Ronald Reagan
One from a friends bag of quotes,
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same...
-Ronald Reagan
"So we surrender. We weigh the pros and cons, and reason prevails. But you see, sir, I am an unreasonable man as well as a poor soldier. But you are right. My men are not soldiers. They are lads. Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen. They run away. They fear the Hessians as they fear death. All this is true. Yet they have put their trust in me. They could have deserted; thousands have. But these lads have not. They remain with me. And I, not you, General Gates, *I* command this army; and if I, a bumbling Virginia farmer, should decide to lead them into Hell, they will follow me into Hell. Now you hear me and you hear me well: You will ride out of my camp; you are not to discuss what has occurred here tonight -- not with your staff, not with your men. Put your pistol on him, Alex, and go with him. See him onto his horse and out of this camp, and if he tries to take his men with him, *SHOOT HIM*!"
"You would not dare...."
"Try me, General Gates. Only try me."
[George Washington, and Horatio Gates, _The Crossing_]
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain
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“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein
And then they throw you out for being a Cheating Munchkin. Do not ask me how I know this.Originally Posted by Cmmdre
Realism is when you realise that the "light at the end of the tunnel"...
is just a train coming the other way
rabbit
A Pessimist is just an Optimist, in possession of all of the facts
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Difficult to come up with a favorite, but here's two I've found over the years:
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
G.K.Chesterton
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb discussing what's for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb willing to contest the majority decision".
Benjamin Franklin, 1755
"I have a cunning plan"
"as cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University"
"Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?"
Wait my lord, do not despair. For I have a cunning plan.
Baldrick
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."
From one of my favorite Horror Movies (and when you read the summary, you'll see why it's so classed):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/...item=qt0347624
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/...item=qt0347613 .
Ive always liked
'Why is there always so much month left at the end of the money?'
"I'm too old for this ****..."--Detective Sgt. Roger Murtaugh, LAPD
"Now you can jump, but if you do you take me with you and that makes you a Cop Killer."
"A psycho NUT cop!"
"Yeah, but I'm still a cop. *pauses* Do you REALLY wanna jump? Let's do it, ***hole!"
*after steering them onto an airbag*
"Hey, that was fun, let's go again! *jumper's still cuffed to him and starts REALLY freaking out*"
--Detective Sgt. Martin Riggs and an unnamed suicide attemptee
Since we're getting into movie quotes, here a scene with a couple of my favorites.
"This ain't Dodge City. And you ain't Bill Hickok."
"I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." (Referring to the Colt pistol)
My favorite business/sales lesson in a quote was a Bill Murray line from Ghostbusters spoken to the NYC mayor:
" If I'm wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail - peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it! But if I'm right, and we can stop this thing...
Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters."
"Arguing with [insert person/group here] is like playing chess with a pigeon: no matter how good you are, it's just going to crap all over the board, knock over all the pieces and strut around like they won."--unknown
"Stand aside, I'm coming through"
Blunt and to the point. From Rear Admiral Willis Augustus Lee, Jr. during the naval battle of Guadalcanal.
In Basic Training, we had a saying to clear a pathway whenever a drill instructor was ascending or descending a set of stairs - "Make a hole and make it wide." At convocation this year, a female student was trying to get through the hallway where all the faculty was gathered. I instinctively yelled, "Make a hole and make it wide." She took two steps, stopped, turned to me and said "Make it wide?" There was nothing I could say.
I find this one quite apposite on many occasions :)
From the Space captain Smith series of books by Toby Frost, a line that is growing in popularity with UK and US nuclear safety inspectors...
"If its green and glowing its time to be going"
“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
I wish I could have seen the expression on face. Or did she think that you were just bragging?
Nichts ist so beständig wie die Änderung.
Nothing is that steady like a change.
“And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods?”
Thomas Macaulay.
One I use often is "life ain't fair to idiots"...problem is that sometimes that's me.
There are some very great quotes here. Thanks all for sharing them. I have to think of one to post.
Well was sitting here having a beverage and listened to some Jethro Tull and thought of this:
Too old to rock and roll but much to young to die.
Wait until I get my Pink Floyd mood going.
When you talk about kicking back, listening to the music of our youth, and reflecting on then and now, such times always bring this song to mind:
Very good one Bobby. One of the Pink Floyd ones is:
there's someone in my head but its not me. I often wonder who that is.
I think me from years ago.
I've found myself listening to a lot of old hard rock (not so hard now) lately like Cream, Procol Harum, Yes, Badfinger, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young to name a few.
Yes they were in our youth and have many quotes for us. Most of the ones you mentioned I have on record/tape and now CD. Procol Harum WOW many don't know them. Sinful Sister.
May we, instead, use the term "classic"? By the way, has anyone seen my teeth?
How can someone younger than me, sound like my father
Good songs
I started to feel older when I caught myself telling my students many of the things my Dad told me when I was their age, well, that and the body aches.How can someone younger than me, sound like my father
This, too, might be age talking, but I do think we grew up with better music.
I'll take the Platters over any group since.
That is exactly the same thing these old guys said.
I started feeling old when commanding officers of warships started looking young
Yeah, I imagine that would do it quite forcefully. I have been out of the military for 20 years. I am probably older now than many of my commanders were when I was in. I never thought of that. I think I would still have thought of commanders being older than me because my frame of reference is my twenties.I started feeling old when commanding officers of warships started looking young
I remember the first time I met the parents of one of my students, and I was older than they were - it was a bit surreal; now it is more common.
Working in the university environment like yourself it is one that has the dynamic feeling of always being youthful. A decade passes but it sure doesn't feel like it except in the mornings when the reminder can sometimes be acute.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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Some of us do, and I can still pull out their vinyl records and play them on something called a "turntable". lol.
Getting old:
I was on Ft Meade a few years ago getting a haircut and saw someone in uniform also getting one. I thought he might be an E-5 because he looked so young. When he got out of the chair and I saw he was a Capt. I knew I was getting old.
"The games I play are getting old! The books I read are getting old! The bands I listen to are getting old! [pause] *I'M* GETTING OLD!"
"Tranquility Base here -- the Clue has landed."
[Matt, and Igor, _Dork Tower_]
Chris, Chris, Chris... *shakes head* I had a feeling you were going to invoke Dork Tower at some point.
Oh, one from an old friend...
"Mr. Atta, I'll see your box-cutter, and I'll RAISE you three feet of American Hardwood."
--Massad Ayoob, on airport self-defense and the advantages of being "of a certain age"
Capitalism is based on presumption that you can win the game.
Socialism is based on presumption that you can play draw.
Misticism is based on presumption that you can quit the game.
But you can't...
(A bit misquoted, but still Murphy)
I felt I needed a counterweight for the quotes from a flick about The Wannsee Conference. :)
I almost forgot the quote I had on my office wall for years,
" The beatings will continue, until morale improves "
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