Dulce et Decoro est pro Patria Mori - it is sweet and fitting to die for one's Fatherland. Some Roman poet whose name escapes me. I rather like the eponymous poem Wilfred Owen wrote in response.
Historical Quotes
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Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
"You can good govern with bad laws but good officials. But with bad officials even the best laws can't help."
Otto von Bismarck
"I do only believe in the statistics I faked myself."
Winston Churchill
"Thoughts are free."
Cicero
Adler
Otto von Bismarck
"I do only believe in the statistics I faked myself."
Winston Churchill
"Thoughts are free."
Cicero
Adler
Israelite9191
You should be reading
Anyone have a good quote about the power of trade? Also, here is my favorite quote of all time:
“We Mongols believe that there is but one G-d, in Whom we live and in Whom we die, and towards him we have an upright heart. But just as G-d has given different digits to the palm, so He has given different religions to men.”
– Möngke Khan (1208-1259), Grandson of Genghis Khan, Fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, spoken to the European traveller Friar William of Rubruck. He was purportedly drunk at the time, although he was purportedly drunk all of the time.
“We Mongols believe that there is but one G-d, in Whom we live and in Whom we die, and towards him we have an upright heart. But just as G-d has given different digits to the palm, so He has given different religions to men.”
– Möngke Khan (1208-1259), Grandson of Genghis Khan, Fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, spoken to the European traveller Friar William of Rubruck. He was purportedly drunk at the time, although he was purportedly drunk all of the time.
Verbose
Deity
The original is by Horace.Eran of Arcadia said:
Berthold Brecht got himself expelled from his veeery patriotic German Gymnasium as a youth, for taking the piss out of old Horace and that pious and patriotic lie of his.
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
Israelite9191 said:
Being drunk can give people the greatest inspirations as well as the greatest downfalls
Israelite9191
You should be reading
How true. The rabbis actually say that alchohol brings out people's true thoughts and clears away from the mind societal apprehensions.
Verbose
Deity
"You don't really know a Swede until you've seen him properly drunk."Israelite9191 said:
Jan Myrdal
Them rabbis might be Swedish?
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
Verbose said:
Oh goodness, really? Cos them Swedes are crazy enough as it is.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
But they aren't ugly in the morning!Kan' Sharuminar said:Being drunk can give people the greatest inspirations as well as the greatest downfalls
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
Adler
Otto von Bismarck
Adler
Speaking of Bismarck, this may have already been posted but one of my favorite quotes from him is:
...which was completely true, especially back in his time. Simple, yet highly accurate, and insightful. Otto really understood how to divide and conquer, I'd say.
...which was completely true, especially back in his time. Simple, yet highly accurate, and insightful. Otto really understood how to divide and conquer, I'd say.
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
Adler17 said:
Similarly...
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite
~Churchill
Cuchullain
Prince
"Lord, make me chaste --- but not yet!", St.Augustine
Of course, this is a bit of a misrepresentation, since when he wrote this it was specifically to disavow the sentiment, which he had held in his youth. ("When I was young I used to pray to you, O Lord, give me humility and chastity-- but not yet.")Cuchullain said:
Poor Augustine was always somewhat uncomfortable about sexuality, mostly because in his early teens, his father would take him to the bathhouse and loudly show off his precocious, er, development to the other men (including the fathers of the girls he knew).
Cuchullain
Prince
A point I readily concede, yet it is an amusing quote nonetheless, especially from a man who would later become one of the most influential --- and most conservative --- theologians in history.Taliesin said:
"Don't be afraid of your king! Love him!"
Frederic Wilhelm I said that while beating a peasant, who, scared of him, has hidden in the bushes.
"God, forgive me. My life was one great sin"
the last words of (Frederic) August II, the king of Poland, grand prince of Lithuania and elector of Saxony.
"Poland is Lwow, Vilnius, Grodno... And Warsaw? it is just a jewish village over german boarder" (about like that)
I think it was Cat-Mackiewicz, prime minister of Poland.
the funny thing is that none of the cities mentioned above belongs to Poland today...
Frederic Wilhelm I said that while beating a peasant, who, scared of him, has hidden in the bushes.
"God, forgive me. My life was one great sin"
the last words of (Frederic) August II, the king of Poland, grand prince of Lithuania and elector of Saxony.
"Poland is Lwow, Vilnius, Grodno... And Warsaw? it is just a jewish village over german boarder" (about like that)
I think it was Cat-Mackiewicz, prime minister of Poland.
the funny thing is that none of the cities mentioned above belongs to Poland today...
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