Quotes from historical figures

[CGGrognard]

Bill Mauldins' Willie & Joe

Bill Mauldin and his cartoons published in the Stars and Stripes during the Second World War have always been a favorite of mine.

[Missouri_Rebel]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

Enough of this one-at-a-time stuff...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comed ... nny-jokes/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comed ... n-history/

'Any trained chimp can pound out a link.'

-Me. Just now.

Some pretty funny ones.

[Missouri_Rebel]

'A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.'

― Mark Twain

[Ostwindflak]

"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French"

~ Heinz Guderian

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: CGGrognard

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

General George S. Patton

There are variations of that saying. Did he repeat it several times with some different words? Or has his original phrase been corrupted over time?

[Max 86]

"The mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945." General Eisenhower in communique re: the Nazi surrender.

[Capt. Harlock]

"The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage."

--Thucydides

[CGGrognard]

It does seem to have evolved or changed over time, or where the quote comes from. For here's another version of it; one that I've heard a number of times as well.

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
General George S. Patton

[Aurelian]

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”

"Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence"

“If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings I’m still waiting to hear what your point is.”

Christopher Hitchens.

[Gilmer]

I also like the one in my signature...

"He that has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time." - Anacreon

[Mike Dubost]

"Free governments will outlast dictatorships. Men in the latter fear guns behind them."

and

"Hitler should beware the fury of an aroused democracy."

both by Dwight Eisenhower.

[Jagdtiger14]

"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French" ~ Heinz Guderian

Good one! He should have done what Rommel did: Not answer the phone.[&o]

Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations...many awesome lines and quotes in there!

[Trugrit]

Mongol General: What is the best thing in life?

“To crush your enemies, drive them before you and hear the lamentations of their women.”
-Conan the Barbarian

Paraphrase

[E]

"if you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of departments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other. As far as one can see, at this stage." - Sir Humphrey Appleby


"Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been government policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Ministers and administration as a responsibility of Officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy." - Sir Humphrey Appleby


"The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume; but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun." - Sir Humphrey Appleby

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: E

"if you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of departments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other. As far as one can see, at this stage." - Sir Humphrey Appleby


"Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been government policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Ministers and administration as a responsibility of Officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy." - Sir Humphrey Appleby


"The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume; but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun." - Sir Humphrey Appleby

[:D] [&o]

[Zap]

ORIGINAL: E

"if you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of departments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other. As far as one can see, at this stage." - Sir Humphrey Appleby


"Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been government policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Ministers and administration as a responsibility of Officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy." - Sir Humphrey Appleby


"The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume; but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun." - Sir Humphrey Appleby

Was he a politician? if not he should have been.[;)]

[E]

ORIGINAL: Zap
Was he a politician? if not he should have been.[;)]

"Well briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under Secretary of State, known as the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private Secretary. I too have a Principal Private Secretary and he is the Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, 87 Under Secretaries and 219 Assistant Secretaries. Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain Private Secretaries, and the Prime Minister will be appointing two Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own Parliamentary Private Secretary." - Sir Humphrey Appleby

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Zap

Was he a politician? if not he should have been.[;)]

Sir Humphrey Appleby is a fictional character from the awesome television series Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. [&o]

Although I am not sure if it has aged well.

[sPzAbt653]

Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded. Yogi Berra

[Missouri_Rebel]

ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded. Yogi Berra

lol

'I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man.'

Mark Twain