Thread: Quotes

"I mean, I think, Iraqis, I think, feel that if we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn't have to kill them for their oil."
~Bill Maher~

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

"This is a chronic disease among Democrats, who tend to talk more about what's wrong with America than what's right." -- Joe Klein

"Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach." -- Obama's friend, Bernardine Dohrn

"We made mistakes, and we'd do it again. I wish that we'd done more. I wish we'd been more militant." -- Obama's friend, Bernardine Dohrn

"The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~Elbert Hubbard~

"A lot of Americans right now are angry at the French. In Washington, the cafeteria where the members of Congress eat announced that they have changed the name of 'french fries' to 'freedom fries.' Nothing like this has happened since the 1950s when 'russian dressing' changed to 'commie sauce.'" - Conan O'Brien

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
— G. K. Chesterton

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
— William Shakespeare

"And you all also may remember that early on, I said if you hide a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, if you provide comfort to a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist. The Taliban now knows what we mean. They're gone. And, guess what? People in Afghanistan don't miss them one bit." -- George W. Bush rallies the troops in Alaska on 2/16/02

"It's one thing to fight a war and lose it. It's quite another to willingly surrender without a struggle." -- Cal Thomas

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"How can a president not be an actor?"
~Ronald Reagan~

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama

“I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. … The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.” — Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr.

" Only idiots never change their minds"
~Paul-Henri Spaak~

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
— Geoffrey Chaucer

"No rational person can believe a twice-elected Texas Governor, successful US President and overthrower of the Taliban is a moron unless a majority of Americans are morons, too. And in that case how come the morons have a global dominance unparalleled in history? As with those wacky Arabs and their Zionist conspiracies, Euro-Canadian anti-Americanism is a psychosis." - Mark Steyn

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
— Oscar Wilde

"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
~Charles De Gaulle~

"Liberals can be very "understanding" about violence -- provided it is violence from the left. On the very day when terrorist planes were crashing into the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon, The New York Times was running a sympathetic story about one of our own home-grown terrorists from the 1970s who had been caught up with by the law." - Thomas Sowell

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
~William Ewart Gladstone~

I am not a Liverpool fan but I am a big Bill Shankly fan here are some of his

• I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I'd break my wife's legs if I played against her, but I'd never cheat her.
• At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques.
• If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains.
• A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
• Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean you've hurt 'your' knee, it's Liverpool's knee! (To Tommy Smith after he'd turned up for training with a bandaged knee)

And my personal Favourite

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.

Knowledge is power.
— Francis Bacon