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[zappadelta]

One of my favorite quotes, from ex-Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach John Mckay. After his team lost yet another game in an abysmal season:

Reporter: 'What do you think of your team's execution today?'

Mckay: 'I'm all for it.'

[erasmus]

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

[Globutron]

This isn't exactly one for the books, but it should be:

"He called me a �rapist� and a �recluse.� I am not a recluse.�

- Tyson

[Sleepy in Seoul]

'If a kid asks where the rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, "God is crying". And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."'
Jack Handey

[comm]

"Of all sad words of mouth or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been.' "

-John Greenleaf Whittier

[Leslie Cheswyck]

"When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat."

- Henry Ford

[JMO]

i like two quotes by Nietzsche...i think

" No victor believes in chance" and "success has always been a great liar".

I like them because I think they basically mean the same thing but come from different angles.

[HapKi]

(The historian) should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.
Lucian (A.D. 120-200)

I think John Adams said a similar thing.

[Hotwire]

Groucho Marx tipping his hat to socialite host of eleborate party

'My dear, I've had a good evening... This wasn't it.'

Yeah I know it's not historical but that's too easy.

[Sector7G]

�Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.�

Winston Churchill referring to the RAF.

[Died By Bear]

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

-Elizabeth, queen of England



Μολὼν λαβέ (Molon Labe - Come and get them)

-Leonidas of the Spartans classical expression of defiance (response to the Persian demand for the Greeks to lay down their arms and surrender at Thermopylae)

[Steelrails]

The War of the Rebellion is a goldmine for quotes.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I don't want them brave, I want them dead."
-Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson, referring to a 'brave' attack by Union soldiers.

"Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is intrigue."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose."
-John Brown

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
-E.M. Forster

[DorkothyParker]

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." -
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

And if we stray from "historical" words,

"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot have is a sense of proportion."
-- Douglas Adams