Uxbridge: "By god sir! I've lost my leg!" Wellington: "By god sir! So you have!" Apocryphal exchange on the field of Waterloo... If it's not true it really ought to be.
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.” - Voltaire “The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise” - Benjamin Franklin "As God once said, and I think rightly...” - Bernard Law Montgomery "When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.” - Charles de Gaulle
"I do not say the French cannot come, I only say they cannot come by sea." John Jarvis, the Earl of St. Vincent, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1805, asked if Napoleon might invade England
Army. A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of diplomats. Josephus Daniels Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty Robert Ingersoll Politics is the art of obtaining money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other. Oscar Ameringer Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival. W. Edward Deming Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling God sell us all things at the price of labor. Leonardo da Vinci Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. Lao Tzu Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. Mother Theresa Immaturity prevails in those who pursue it. Mary Reinhardt Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth. Robert Orben I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down. & A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne The supernatural is the natural not yet understood Elbert Hubbard A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. James Keller It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done. Ewing Forgiveness is of high value, yet it costs nothing. Unknown
Army. A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of diplomats. Josephus Daniels Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty Robert Ingersoll Politics is the art of obtaining money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other. Oscar Ameringer Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival. W. Edward Deming Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling God sell us all things at the price of labor. Leonardo da Vinci Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. Lao Tzu Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. Mother Theresa Immaturity prevails in those who pursue it. Mary Reinhardt Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth. Robert Orben I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down. & A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. Elbert Hubbard A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. James Keller It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done. Ewing Forgiveness is of high value, yet it costs nothing. Unknown
One of my personal favorites: 'All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to spout cliches' Jeremy Hardy
That one is actually attributed to Hugh Laurie. "I'm terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many brilliant actors that one more "Twit" like me joining the back of the "Queue" (waiting line) seems completely unnecessary." also Hugh Laurie
