Great quotes through the centuries.

Someone (possibly me) may have mentioned this before, but...

Time is an Illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

- Ford Prefect, THGTTG.

 

Who doesn't remember that from Fallout 1?!

 

I have only one thing to add.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?d ... 0-11&res=l

 

Here are some quotes about war:


"The battle, sir, is not to the stong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave..." Patrick Henry
"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent.I am attacking." Ferdinand Foch
"Victory belongs to the most perservering." Napoleon Bonaparte
"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." Thomas Jefferson
"We have met the enemy and they are ours!" Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
"Veni, Vedi, Vici. ( I came, I saw, I conquered)" Julius Caesar
"In war there is no substitute for victory." General Douglas MacArthur
"War is the remedy that our enemys have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." General William T. Sherman
"Freedom isn't free." Anonymous
"Never give in- never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Winston Churchill
"If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it." 1940's saying by Anonymous
"Soldiers are men... most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war." Henry Knyvett
"A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general." Adapted from Henry G. Bohn
"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats." Josephus Daniels
"Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other." Napoleon I
"Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him the most, when he ain't looking." British sergeant-major on the definition of strategy
"Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene, and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Diplomats are as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it." Will Rogers
"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war." Thucydides
"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them." Napoleon Bonaparte
"We make war that we may live in peace." Aristotle
"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear the officers more than the enemy." Helvetius
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat bring worse things than any that can ever happen in war." Ernest Miller Hemingway





And my grand finale is:GET A LIFE!!!- me

 

"If you cannot love your country, you should at least do it no harm."

Ricardo M. Urbina, judge sentencing Ana Belan Montes, who spied for Cuba, to 25 years in prison.

 

"get a life"? I'm a gamer! I have lots of lives!

 

Thats the best comeback I've ever heard to that. Maybe people will stop saying that because they are too stupid to think of an even better comeback :teeth:

 

"Shut the fuck up."


----gamenut.

 

Sorry retard, it wasn't you i directed it to.

 

gamenut! Are you talking to me? What harm is their in posting what I did? I'll take it off if it bothers you that bad, but I really don't understand why you attacked me like you did.¹












¹If indeed your comment is directed to me.

 

"Love me, fear me and do as i say, and i will be your slave Sara."
From a movie dunno wich.

 

Don King says....



"Here's the man of the hour at this particular moment."

Introducing Azumah Nelson after a victory.


"We have a marriage, like a father and son"

Describing his relationship with boxer Julio Cesar Chavez


"Mike Tyson has come 360 degrees around, and that's the triangle of life."

Explaining the career trajectory of Iron Mike Tyson

 

it's from the same movie as my sig.


"God does not play dice" - Albert Einstein

"Einstein would roll over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded" - some guy on SMAC... yeah... feel the burn...


"If the brain was simple enough we could understand it, we would be so simple, we couldn't." - the book, Neverness (meow)

 

Nobody has written in this thread for some time, why was I not accused of gravedigging on this one Etalis? Let me guess, because you posted and therefore didn't want to include yourself in a reprimand.

 

Hey, I posted in the other ones, too.

Besides, this one's self-explanatory, so there's clearly no need to read every comment to understand the context, unlike in the others.

 

Yes, but only so you could scold me.