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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 17, 2005 16:25:46 GMT -5
One of my personal favourites is Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do"
Then there's Henry IV of France, who had a dagger thrusted in his chest by a monk... "I've been stabbed!"
And where would a quoting thread be without Monty Python? "T'is only a flesh wound" (he says as he loses his arm)
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Post by Bludgeonman on Feb 17, 2005 16:36:03 GMT -5
Ooh I've got loads of these.
"Vini vidi scarfi barfi." We came, we saw, we ate too much, we got sick.
"When the pin is pulled, Mr Grenade is not our friend." US Marine Corps.
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." Robin Williams.
"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven" Ecclesiastes 3:1.
There's more where that came from.
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 17, 2005 16:43:35 GMT -5
"This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. This is just the end of the beginning." - Winston C
"The bricks hung in the air, in much the same way that bricks don't." - Douglas Adams
"A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around." - Terry Pratchett
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 17, 2005 16:46:17 GMT -5
"Wait, there's more" Is my all time favourite, used TOO much by the teachers in our school ... (maybe you catch a hint of sarcasm yes? ). Then would be: 'I hate mondays' brought to you by the fat, orange cat you guessed it: Garfield. you can always look up your favourite quotes on this site . www.quotationspage.com/I found this one 'hanging around' too ... "The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive" - Robert Heinlein (haven't got the faintest of clues to who he is ...)
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Post by Solar on Feb 17, 2005 16:56:44 GMT -5
I remember a quote of Bush:
The terrorists continue to think of new ways to harm the people of America, and so do we!
Hereby I offer my condolences to those living in the USA! ;D
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 17, 2005 16:59:08 GMT -5
That's not how it goes. It goes:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we!"
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 17, 2005 17:04:56 GMT -5
"There are known knowns, there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 17, 2005 17:10:32 GMT -5
I think he read that site I gave, here's a quote from it . "Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Maybe he shouldn't be making those 'known knowns' and 'known unkowns' and unknown unknowns' ... because this is a quote from the same page ... they always find a way to put half of the truth aside and step on a short rim to balance things out .... "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." - Sir Winston Churchill Oh, and sorry, I really have to! "Nuculear" - George W. Bush Jr. ;D
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 17, 2005 17:11:02 GMT -5
Always a classic Kaiser "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!" - Theodore Roosevelt
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 17, 2005 17:25:50 GMT -5
Churchill Frenzy!
While Chuchill was at the White House, President Roosevelt went to speak with him one night. He was wheeled in on him while the man was getting out of the bath. But Churchill unembarrased said "You see Mr President I have nothing to hide from you"
A woman once said to him: "Winston, you're drunk" He replied "Madam, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober"
"We have all heard how Dr Guillotine was executed by his invention" Random Speaker: "He was not!" "Well, he ought to have been"
(Lord T prances away, giggling)
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Post by Solar on Feb 18, 2005 9:04:23 GMT -5
Several quotes of my teachers (translated)... My hate for you grows with every second!
I'm not continuing with teaching you! .......... Now open your book on page 23.
Let's begin offering with 10 mistakes for each exercise, and then lower it to 5.
2,5 is... eh... *long silence* ... 2,5.
It's cold as hell in here! (hard to translate this one...)
You do know it, you've just forgotten it!There were several other quotes as well, but some are impossible to translate like they should be translated... You gotta love some of my teachers... Ps: I didn't know it exactly anymore, Bush's quote... But it was near the mark!
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 18, 2005 17:28:00 GMT -5
Hehehe... one that applies to me: "Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. " - Some French Moralist
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
"When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice."
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. " - These 3 are from the Great Count Otto Von Bismarck
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Post by Bludgeonman on Feb 18, 2005 17:41:47 GMT -5
"Everyone! Everyone! Look unto me! I have the Blue flag! I have seen the top of the mountain, and you shall worship me as though I were a God!" <Gets punched by the Blue team> "I regret nothing! I have lived as few men dare to dream!" -Religious nut from Red vs. Blue. "The pessimist sees the worst in every opportunity, The optimist sees the solution to every problem." -Or something to that effect. Where the hell did I get that from?
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 19, 2005 11:12:43 GMT -5
Speaking of pessimists:
"A pessimist sees this cup and says it is half empty An optimist sees this cup and says it is half full An engineer sees this cup and decides that the cup is twice the size it needs to be."
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Post by Iacobus on Feb 20, 2005 7:45:51 GMT -5
A classic from Shakespeare: "Thou shag-haired villain!" "What, you egg! Young fry of treachery!"
Oh yes, and a brigadier-general, after listening to a long rant from a scientist about why the military weren't making best use of respected scientists when they didn't ask for his help as soon as WW2 began: "Tell me, did you win the Adams (mathematics) Prize in your year?" "What? No, what's that got to do with anything?" "I did."
And last but not least... "What do you know about plutonium?" "I discovered it."
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