Alexander Graham Bell: "Aw, shit! I spilled acid on my clothes!"

^ ^ ^

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant

"On the other hand you have different fingers..." - Steven Wright

"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer." Ronald Reagan

"I drank what???!" - Socrates

Eleanor Roosevelt supposedly said

"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting, died.
Author unknown

"We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people"

Ronald Reagan

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

And my favorite:
"Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required."

All by Winston Churchill, of course. I could go on, but these are the quotes that choke me up when I think of them.

quote:

Originally posted by G-Man:
Patton?

I'm at a loss as to why you would guess Patton, as he was a despicable anti-Semite.

"I drank what...?!" Socrates

Nancy Astor to W S Churchill - Winston, you are drunk!

W S Churchill to Nancy Astor - Nancy, YOU are ugly, but I shall be better in the morning.

tac

"Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue"
—
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

"It was a Woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her". -- W. C. Fields.

"Our long national nightmare is over."

Gerald Ford's first sentence to a national audience immediately after being sworn in as President.

In the same address, Ford cautioned the nation against great expectations: "I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln."

quote:

Originally posted by DMF:

quote:

Originally posted by G-Man:
Patton?

I'm at a loss as to why you would guess Patton, as he was a despicable anti-Semite.

I guessed Patton because of: the date of the quote; the audacious tone of the quote; and because I knew he played a role in dealing with the concentration camps.

I was ignorant regarding his anti-semitism. No offense intended.

"...nor long shall any name resound beyond the grave,
unless't be found in some clerk's book.
It is the pen gives immortality to men."

Robert Wace

"Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around
And desert you"

R. Astley

"Why can’t we use the starboard launch?" -Starbuck

"It’s a gift shop now." -Tyrol

"Frak Me!" -Starbuck,

BG

H&K-Guy

quote:

You can't always get what you want.
But if you try sometimes, well you might find,
You get what you need.

The Rolling Stones.