Some of the best quotes in the English language.

[speeder]

“It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'”

-Gabriel Byrne

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by cashflyer

So much of Patton's speech was edited that many find it interesting to read the unedited version. So, here: The Famous Patton Speech

wow WHAT A FREEKING ICON! just reading that , beckons me to WAR!


guy was incredible. why we cant have more of them is beyond me. swartzkopf was the last general that had drive and "guts" like patton.

[s_wilwerding]

why we cant have more of them is beyond me. swartzkopf was the last general that had drive and "guts" like patton.

The big problem these days is that you can't get promoted high enough without essentially being a politician. I admire Patreaus - he seems like a tough, highly intelligent general, but he is, at base, a politician.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by s_wilwerding

"Sometimes a good war is better than a bad peace."
~Me

This is a variation on a Studs Terkel quote, which is that "Any peace is not necessarily better than any war."

It appears that Studs and i share the same view on the topic.

[charlesbahn]

My all time favorite:

"Thank God we didn't get all the government we paid for" - Will Rogers

[Heel n Toe]

“If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.” - Ted Nugent

[tabs]

"God and Ferry Porsche rested in 1974." .....TABS

"It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her."

"You can never underestimate the predictiability of stupidity"..Snatch

"If you say it often enough sooner or later they are going to think it is good" ...Raymond Chandler on Hemingway

"Women do find me attractive.... but I do deny them my essence." Brig Gen Jack D Ripper

...........is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

[jbryant]

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake-
Napoleon

[m21sniper]

"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight it's way out of a piss-soaked paper bag."
~G.S. Patton

[Talewinds]

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

[cgarr]

"I never said a guy who wears glasses is a queer. I said a guy who wears glasses is a four-eyes. A guy who's a FAG is a queer!"

Archie Bunker: