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[sharter]

What's your favourite quotation? As a Brit I could fill this thread with stuff Chruchill said. However, I like this one-

'I'm not a man I'm dynamite'.

Nietzsche, 'Ecce Homo'.

[johntpartee]

"There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit."

Harry S Truman


"There hasn't been a greater concentration of intellectual power in the White House since Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

John F. Kennedy (at a gathering of Nobel laureates)


"I am not a crook."

Richard M. Nixon

[voltaire]

This is a great one for us teachers, said by my illustrious namesake:
'The secret of being boring is to say everything.'
-Voltaire

[johntpartee]

"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."

Voltaire



I think I'm gonna have fun with this topic.

[voltaire]

Good one, John. And Voltaire also said:
'Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.'

And again for us edumacators:

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

[Mr. Kalgukshi]

" Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes."
("I fear Greeks even when bearing gifts.")

[Virgil Aeneid ii. 49]

[johntpartee]

Schneider: "Remember, 'beware of Hungarians bearing gifts'."
Ann: "I think that's 'Greeks'."

Schneider: "Greeks, Hungarians, any of those countries where the men dance together."

[Perilla]

"If it ain't broke don't fix it."

[nomad soul]

I have many, but at the moment, my faves are:

"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason." ~ Richard Chenevix Trench, Anglican archbishop and poet (1807�1886)

"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you." ~ Alex Haley, American novelist (1921 - 1992)

"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order." ~ David Gerrold, American writer (1944 - )

"A woman is like a tea bag -- you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, former US First Lady (1884 - 1962)

[uh huh]

Love is to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.~ Balzac

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
~ Virginia Woolf

[Sashadroogie]

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.


Iosif Vissarionovich

[Sashadroogie]

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.


Iosif Vissarionovich

[Sashadroogie]

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.



Iosif Vissarionovich

[Sashadroogie]

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.



Iosif Vissarionovich

[Sashadroogie]

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.


Vladimir Ilyich