Favorite Quotes

Started by dallanta, 04-03-2006 -- 17:05:21

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dallanta

    ANY kind of quote, even serious ones.
 
  Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
-- John Adams
   
The Center Will Not Hold

Thraxas

#1
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
-Second Witch, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1 

Freezer

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin

Freezer

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
-Frank Sinatra

Thraxas

#4
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana

cs137

"Look what I can do!"
                            Stuart from Mad TV

flew-da-coup

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana
You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.Leviticus 19:35

docbyers

I've always heard the Santayana as:

"Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Either way, it's a powerful quote.  When you tour the museum at the Dachau concentration camp just outside Munich, Germany, this quote is on a large display as you leave the museum.  I have remembered it, and the lessons learned, ever since...
If it works, it's a Fluke.

flew-da-coup

Bob and Dave are a$$hole$!!!
- Tony Rogers (circa 2005)
You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.Leviticus 19:35

Thraxas

How many Krystals did he get ?!?!?
-Anonymous PMEL Technician (circa 2005)

cobychuck

"Who's Pele?"

- Quote from an airman during a Phase II exercise at Holloman AFB

docbyers

"Nobody is a patriot on an empty stomach." - Thomas Jefferson
If it works, it's a Fluke.

Thraxas

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
-Plato

Thraxas

Quote from: Thraxas on 04-04-2006 -- 18:04:46
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana

Quote from: flew-da-coup on 04-05-2006 -- 06:48:52
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana


I guess this thread proves it. :-D

cs137

"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands".