Thread: Quotes

"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it" -- George Orwell

"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” (Nikos Kazantzakis, novelist)

(if there is any truth to this quote, it can be argued that Thais are much freer than Westerners)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke

The I hope that in the next US presidential election, the voters who stayed at home last time will not repeat their mistake.

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Sir John Harrington. (1561–1612)

Down at an English fair,
One evening I was there,
When I heard a showman shouting
Underneath the flare:

Hoi’ve got a lo-ve-ly bunch o’ coconuts.
There they are a-standin’ in a row.
Big ones, small ones, some as big as yer ‘ead!
Give ‘em a twist, a flick o’ the wrist,
That’s what the showman said.

Hoi’ve got a lo-ve-ly bunch o’ coconuts.
Hevery ball yer throw will make me rich.
There stands me wife, the idol of me life,
Singin’ “roll a-bowl a ball, a penny a pitch!

-- Monty Python, “Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts

"The quickest way to ending a war is to lose it" -- George Orwell

Frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue - Scott Adams (Dilbert)

If your only tool is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail.

:- Dunno

HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT
by Philip Larkin (1969)


Next year we are to bring the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly.
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.
It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds,
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.

"This wasn't an insult to all mankind, and certainly not an insult to Al Sharpton. Now, if Imus had called the basketball players "fat, race-baiting black men with clownish hairstyles," well, then perhaps Sharpton would be owed an apology." -- Ann Coulter

"I used to believe that people got more religious when they got older because they were getting closer to death and they felt they needed to hedge their bets. And I felt that people got more conservative as they got older because they got richer and wanted to keep more of their money.
Then, when I got older, and became both of the above, I came to realize that while that’s true with a great many people, there was an alternate explanation that I would like to believe is true in my case and those of many others. You become more spiritual and more religious, because you realize nothing else works. And if you live a life like I have, you tried everything else. I’m the only guy that had to go to a 12-step program to get over Bill Clinton. And you become more conservative, not because you become more selfish, but because you keep the ideals that you had in your earlier years. But you realize that the way to achieve them is not the straight-ahead path that the left suggests, but the smart path that the right suggests." -- Dick Morris

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

"So anyway I'd be rubbing your big boobs and getting your nipples really hard, kinda' kissing your neck from behind...and then I would take the other hand with the falafel thing and I'd just put it on your p***y but you'd have to do it really light, just kind of a tease business..." --as quoted in a sexual harassment suit filed against Bill O'Reilly by a Fox News producer, 2004 (Source)

5) "And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'" –in his book, "The O'Reilly Factor For Kids," 2004 (Source)

"If guns cause crime, all mine are defective" -- Ted Nugent

“Most people equate atheism with intellectualism, but it’s actually an intellectual embarrassment. I am amazed at how many people think that God’s existence is a matter of faith. It’s not, and I will prove it at the debate - once and for all. This is not a joke. I will present undeniable scientific proof that God exists.“

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed”
--Mark Twain

"We found the weapons of mass destruction." –President Bush, in an interview with Polish television, May 29, 2003

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Apparently, even the French prefer Western civilization to clitorectomy-performing, car-burning savages." -- Ann Coulter

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. - Charles Bukowski

"If the choice is (Iran) continuing (towards a nuclear bomb) or the use of force, I think you're at a Hitler marching into the Rhineland point. If you don't stop it then, the future is in his hands, not in your hands, just as the future decisions on their nuclear programme would be in Iran's hands, not ours." --

John Bolton