Favourite sayings.

[Alpine Trooper]

Memorable Civilization II Quotes:

"Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England." - Napoleon

"Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best." - Woodrow Wilson

"East Wind, Rain." - Japanese High Command

"Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison." - Lutetia (Paris), 1842.

"My life was too short to achieve the conquest of the whole world." - Genghis Khan

"Who could enumerate this formidable army of Christ? No one, I think, had ever seen or could ever see a like number of such brilliant knights." - Anonymi Gesta Francorum


But, the Best:


"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you." - Nikita Khrushchev

 

[Shadylookin]

"never take life too seriously because no one gets out alive anyway" - don't know who said it

 

[Eukaryote]

Oh man I can't belive I forgot this, instead of saying "put that in your pipe and smoke it" I made up "put that in your ketchup bottle and squirt it on your hot dog"

 

[nc-1701]

"Resistance is futile..."

"Engage"

"Make it so"

As you can see I'm a bit of a trekkie.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The guys I work with are a bunch of Top Gun fans, so things like "Negative, Ghostrider" and "You have the ball" are commonplace.

My favorite historical quotes:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" -Edmund Burke

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin

"The Heritage of the Past is the Seed that Brings Forth the Harvest of the Future." - engraving on the "Heritage" sculpture in front of The National Archives Building in Washington D.C.

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." -Albert Einstein

 

[Whomp]

Good ones everyone.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.-- Steven Wright
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.--George Burns
The computer is a moron. -- Peter Drucker
So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.--Billy Murray in Caddyshack

 

[Sims2789]

"Have an open mind so long as your brains don't fall out."

It's a good rule to live by in general, but it also comes in handy when people say we should teach both creationism and evolution.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Good ones everyone.

I've got another!

Bill Cosby: "Now my good man, what do you like to play?"
Kid: "Pokemon!"
Bill Cosby: "Pokemon!? Pokemon with the poke and the mon and the thing where the guy comes out of the thing, and he makes a fraaagh fr fra aagh aagh aagh!"

 

[truckingpete]

I like quotes, some of these are cool, I must keep them, I usually put some as my MSN messnager name

 

[Godwynn]

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry

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

"When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence." - Gary Lloyd

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

"What country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" - Thomas Jefferson

 

[Ramius75]

a penny saved is a penny earned

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

"the ****'s hit the ceiling fan" - It's just great and works on so many levels.

 

[classical_hero]

Another one, but I forget who actually says it 9I'm not American, so it is not required of me to remember the guys name). "Give me liberty or give me death."

 

[Rambuchan]

"Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a different kind of misery" ~ Spike Milligan.

 

[Gothmog]

I'm sure I've posted this before but, eh

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

and my recent favorite:

The king is dead
Long live the king.

 

[dgfred]

The late worm misses the bird .

 

[Cannae]

Give me liberty or give 15% percent off- America the book

It's a black thing -from that one clip of reno 911 of the white person who acts black talking to a black cop

Damn - Another qoute from the some person as above from the same clip in Reno 911 if you don't know what i am talking about here is the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt_CWivs1Gk&mode=related&search=reno 911

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Another one, but I forget who actually says it 9I'm not American, so it is not required of me to remember the guys name). "Give me liberty or give me death."

That would be Patrick Henry, my Australian friend

 

[Stolen Rutters]

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein

 

[LLXerxes]

"Everything the government touches turns to crap" Ringo Starr
"Anybody who gives up a little liberty for a little security gets none and diserves neither" Ben Franklin