Hello All,

Well, as you know I'm new here. I did a little searching but didn't see any thread pertaining to Famous Quotes. So here we go. I thought it would be nice to have a wealth of famous qoutes to ponder and enjoy here at History Alive.

I do not want this to turn into a political debate. If you find a quote offensive, copy it over to another thread to address, please. Let's keep the fire and flames out of this thread.


I'll start the bidding with this:

"We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours." Golda Meir Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 - 1974

Your on with the sons, so I'll add this one...


"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
John Adams

"Floating rudderless in the wide Sargossa Sea of New Labour's political vacuum" - Boris Johnson MP on Rt Hon Tony Blair MP

ahh in light of recent events im gonna say "for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so that whom ever belived in him shall not die but live for ever" - Jhon 3:16 :P

one quote i love is ironically from a man who did nothing good for my country but also in my mind sums up the plight of my country pre 1921(im having trouble finding it online so it may be a bit off)-
"we shall fight them on the beaches we will fight them in the streets we will never give in"-Winston Churchill

"Sir, if you were my husband I would put poison in your tea!" - The first female MP to Winston Churchill

"Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it!" - His response.

Oh man, we could have an entire thread just dedicated to Churchill.


Here's the exact quote, BTW.

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" Speech about Dunkirk given in House of Commons June 4, 1940.


Good stuff lads, keep it coming.

thanks here is another non churchill quote

" The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else. That is one of the main differences between us and our enemies. " george dubya bush
-- Apparently he isn't counting the invasions, occupations and nation-building endeavors in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2005 State of the Union address, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2005

No political mudslinging or debates please!!!! Just Quotes!!!!
I think most here are smart enough to figure out the contradictions on our own!

;)

you never know

and again :lol:

"The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists." --Willi Schlamm (Austrian analyst)

Bloody Hell!
Theres a first!
Cliomhdubh quoting Churchhill! :lol: ;)

I remember this one from A- Level History
Benjamin Disraeli reffering to William Gladstone circa 1884

"An egotistical gentleman,inebriated in the exuberance of his own verbosity"

And was it Thomas Jeffersson who said

"The tree of Liberty must,from time to time ,be watered with the blood of patriots" ;)
(Theres one for my American brothers ;) )

Wow, I had completely forgotten about that one Lion. Good addition!!!

Thankyou Almeda my friend! ;)

Heres one I just remembered from George Best(A footballer who played for Man Utd back in the 1970's)

"I spent my money on booze, women and fast cars....The rest I just squandered"

My Dad always laughs at that! :lol:

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."
Fidel Castro

Nice one DW ;)

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. - Eric Arthur Blair (Mein Führer!!!)

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them. - Ferdinand Marcos (Yes the shoe-stealer, strange words for him to say.)

New favourites: Anything from Pope Adolf, um, I mean Pope Palpati... eh, Pope BENEDICT, that sounds Nazi. :)

"Death solves all problems, no man no problem" -Joseph Stalin

Woman to Calvin Coolige "I made a bet with a friend that I could not make you say more than 3 words"

Coolige's Response "You lose"

Considering the fact that one of my jobs is Umpiring Softball (registered ASA), I had to post this one:

"As long as you find a job you enjoy, you'll never work a day in your life" --Plato

Amen Brutha Plato!

:)


Another cute one:

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking." -- Unknown

ah but you didnt read the beging of the post i said i didnt like him <_<

"Tomorrow millions will curse me, but fate wanted it this way."
Hitler before he commited suicide.

Ol' Georgy Boy Patton for ya:

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."
George S. Patton

"If you find yourself riding alone in green fields with the sun shining in your face, be not afraid........for you are already dead and in Elysium.".....Maximus

o god here come the film quotes

"what we do in life echoes in eternity"-maximus
"immortality its yours take it" - achilles
"you can run and you will live , stay and you may die ,but in the long years when your lying in your bed dying would you risk it all for one last chance to come back and kick the english's arse" wallace

Good job Cliom, you have just won the HA award for cheesiest quotes! :lol:

"He who defends everything, defends nothing"
Fredrick The Great

yay

Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Facists on Hitler's "Jewish Conspiracy" rhetoric.

Lord Heseltine on the UK Conservative party

Oscar Wilde, need I say more

woman to oscar wilde " may i kiss the hand that wrote ulsyess?"replie " yes madam but i warn you i have done other things with that hand other than write" wait or was it that other writer? i dunno whoever wrote ulysses , the irish chap

Groucho Marx...

"I've had a great day.....but this wasn't it" :lol:


"There's time yet for this game of bowls"

(Francis Drake on hearing the Spanish Armada had been sighted

Oooh, someone just gave me an idea.

A "Who Said This Thread?"....hmmmmm.

Might be a fun twist for this thread? I'll let someone else decide if we should hijack this one or start another. lol NM, after further review, we can do that in the trivia thread. :) (Looooong night...3 Softball Games, argh. I can't think very clear right now lol )

'Farts have the power to end a conversation, as easily as they do to start a conversation' - My friend, last night, at the pub. He asked me to remember it.

hehe Good one ferrets.

Here's one I came up with a year or so ago.

"It is human nature to believe what you know, before you believe what you see." --Alameda

and the other day someone liked "Those who know it all, know they don't know it all." --Alameda B)

And you thought Cliom's were cheesey!! hehe.

You know, that is awful profound.

I hate Hitler and all he stood for. But without WW2, who knows what mistakes we may have made from 1940-Present. And with the BOMB too boot.

Make you shutter to think about.

So in a way, maybe his last words were actually not too far off base.

(Of coarse, 'fate' wanted him dead too...thank God!)

a woman: Sir, you are drunk!
churchill: yes madam, i am. but tomorrow, i shall be sober, whereas you madam, will still be ugly!

patton: the object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his

paul gallico (one of my favourites)
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute

"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god." - Jean Rostand

I like that one! :lol:

That reminds me of another one:
"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic. "
Joseph Stalin
This is his most cruel one though:
"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
Joseph Stalin

But it is true.

Tell that to the Dinosaurs! :blink:

seeing as you liked pauls gallico quotes, here are some motre, mainly from british to americans...

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell
All American writing gives me the impression that Americans don't care for girls at all. What the American male really wants is two things: he wants to be blown by a stranger while reading a newspaper and he wants to be ****ed by his buddy when he's drunk. Everything else is society
It was wonderful to find America, put perhaps it would have been more wonderful to miss it
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities

some of those actually are by americans, mark twain in there i think among others lol...

anyways
He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate.
- - - Bill Press (about Pat Buchanan)

and to finish off with one of my own fav quips
Don't thank me for insulting you; it was a pleasure!


(i loooove being sarcastic lol)