Author Topic: Famous quotes thread (Read 21630 times)

Jaim Magnus · « **Reply #60 on:** 27 November 2016, 19:17:02 »

Quote

What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say “fuddle duddle” or something like that? God, you guys…!

- Pierre Elliott Trudeau to the media

And my personal favourite...

Quote

Well, just watch me.

- Pierre Trudeau responding to questions surrounding the October Crisis.

monbvol · « **Reply #61 on:** 27 November 2016, 22:19:46 »

Something attributed to Joeseph Stalin that I've seen pop up in Hearts of Iron IV during loading screens:

"History shows there are no invincible armies and there never have been."

I'd post another of his that makes me nod with how true it is but is a bit rule 4 I think.

But this one from Patton should be fine:

"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more."

Dragon Cat · « **Reply #62 on:** 28 November 2016, 05:31:03 »

"Peace is a Lie, there is only Passion,
Through Passion, I gain Strength,
Through Strength, I gain Power,
Through Power, I gain Victory,
Through Victory my chains are broken."

Words the Sith live and die by from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

Banzai · « **Reply #63 on:** 28 November 2016, 14:51:36 »

“No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.”

Steven Brust, Jhereg

"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

Steven Brust, 500 Years After

Feenix74 · « **Reply #64 on:** 30 November 2016, 23:32:17 »

"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable." - Sun Tzu

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." Sun Tzu

"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand." - Sun Tzu

"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." Sun Tzu

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #65 on:** 01 December 2016, 12:18:24 »

"Meddle Not in the affairs of Wizards, for you are Crunchy and good with Ketchup".

Lazarus Jaguar · « **Reply #66 on:** 01 December 2016, 13:51:01 »

Shouldnt that be dragons?

Weirdo · « **Reply #67 on:** 01 December 2016, 13:55:05 »

For many wizards, becoming a dragon is a viable hobby choice.

The others usually know where to find the real thing.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #68 on:** 01 December 2016, 16:33:26 »

"Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." Harry Dresden

Feenix74 · « **Reply #69 on:** 01 December 2016, 18:11:44 »

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook

worktroll · « **Reply #70 on:** 01 December 2016, 19:42:34 »

Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 01 December 2016, 16:33:26

"Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." ~~Harry Dresden~~

Terry Pratchet. If you're going to ~~steal~~ homage, ~~steal~~ homage from the best.

(Jingo published 1997. Dresden Files first book 2000.)

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #71 on:** 01 December 2016, 20:22:00 »

Technically, I was quoting Harry quoting Terry.

Dragon Cat · « **Reply #72 on:** 01 December 2016, 21:20:04 »

"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed." - Mao Zedong On Protracted War, May 1938

Alexander Knight · « **Reply #73 on:** 01 December 2016, 21:44:47 »

"I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!!!"

--- Belkar Bitterleaf

I am Belch II · « **Reply #74 on:** 01 December 2016, 21:59:34 »

6 out of 5 people are bad at fractions.

Feenix74 · « **Reply #75 on:** 01 December 2016, 23:03:47 »

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat." - Douglas Adams

glitterboy2098 · « **Reply #76 on:** 02 December 2016, 00:08:52 »

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."
- Captain Jean Luc Picard, TNG S2E21 "Peak Performance"

"I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know."
- Picard, TNG S4E25 "In Theory"

Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, I know "Hamlet." And what he might say with irony I say with conviction. "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god."
Q: Surely you don't see your species like that, do you?
Jean-Luc Picard: I see us becoming that, Q. Is it that which concerns you?
- S1E10 "Hide and Q"

picking my favorites for Picard is tricky.. many of the ones i love the most could be interpreted as bordering on Rule-4 territory.

Dragon Cat · « **Reply #77 on:** 02 December 2016, 00:37:02 »

"They invade our space, we fall back.
They assimilate whole worlds, we fall back.
Not again the line must be drawn here this, far no further.
And I will make them pay for what they have done."
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek First Contact, speaking of the Borg

"When it rains do you?
   A. Run from doorway-to-doorway trying to stay dry getting wet all the time
      or do you
   B. Walk with dignity and accept that it is raining and you will get wet and instead walk with dignity?
Dragon's Teeth, Star Trek Voyager

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #78 on:** 02 December 2016, 01:13:42 »

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

Feenix74 · « **Reply #79 on:** 02 December 2016, 02:33:36 »

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx

Krimsonholt · « **Reply #80 on:** 02 December 2016, 02:37:23 »

" I called game " - Paul Pierce

Banzai · « **Reply #81 on:** 02 December 2016, 14:37:43 »

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
-George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman.

"Everything's profound when there's guns and zombies."
- Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #82 on:** 02 December 2016, 14:41:54 »

"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault." Harry Dresden

Feenix74 · « **Reply #83 on:** 02 December 2016, 19:37:42 »

"There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation." - James Kemsley

"Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike." - James Kemsley

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #84 on:** 03 December 2016, 08:59:43 »

"You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it." -Talleyrand

Feenix74 · « **Reply #85 on:** 04 December 2016, 22:14:39 »

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

glitterboy2098 · « **Reply #86 on:** 05 December 2016, 00:32:21 »

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #87 on:** 05 December 2016, 22:07:09 »

“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #88 on:** 06 December 2016, 06:24:26 »

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C.S. Lewis.

Feenix74 · « **Reply #89 on:** 06 December 2016, 22:29:42 »

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy