Thread: Quotes

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

- Muhammad Ali

"Not since the beginning of the First World War has our banking system been so close to collapse."

~Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England.~

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" -- Margaret Thatcher

O most pernicious woman!
O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables, — meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"MORRIS: George Bush didn't know what he was doing.
O'REILLY: Do you really believe that?
MORRIS: Oh, absolutely."


~Bill O'Reilly with Dick Morris(Fox News Political Analyst)~

"Daddy, the plane turned into a boat."

-- Martin Sosa, New Yorker who was with his family on the US Airways flight that ditched in the Hudson River, quotes his 4-year-old daughter's reaction to the emergency landing.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, he that is not with me is against me. - George Orwell

牛年吉祥 niú nián jí xiáng = Good Luck in the Year of the Ox

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
— H. L. Mencken

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union not to insist on an investigation into violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip. This is shown at a meeting in Brussels. The Belgian Minister Karel De Gucht regrets lack of European courage.

~De Morgen/Belgium~

“To hell with the handkerchief,” said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
— James Thurber

"In many countries occupied by Germany there was widespread anti-Semitism and too many people became willing accomplices to the Nazi.
The sense of guilt was one of the reasons why for so many nations the Holocaust became not just a war crime, but the war crime: The support that the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine had from Europe, despite the resistance from the Arab world, can be seen as an act of penance."

~Alexandre Antonov,( Russia Today)~

Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here
Said by: Nostradamus (on his death bed)

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

This (stimulus bill) is a bit like treating alcoholics by urging them to buy more whiskey. -- Michelle Malkin

Creeping socialism works like a ratchet. Government spending can be raised, but it is almost impossible to lower. Thus this grotesque orgy of unaffordable pork will serve as a baseline budget for all time — or rather, until the entire system collapses into insolvency à la the Soviet Union. -- Van Helsing

"There is no reasonable ground to believe that the Rohingya are fleeing Myanmar because of persecution. Their profile and their seasonal travel further support the picture that they are illegal migrants, and not those requiring international protection.
Accepting those arriving in an irregular manner would simply encourage new arrivals."

~The Thai government~

Creationists make it sound as though a “theory” is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov

“You know, the trick is we’re not someone in need of help. We’re not invalids. Help is something that you should give to poor people, to people with limited capacities, to pensioners, to developing countries as
for Russia and our partners in Europe, in the United States, in some Asian countries, there should be a partnership of equals.”

~ Vladimir Putin ~

What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
— Richard Feynman

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

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Half the bankers and industrialists at Davos should have been sent to prison a long time ago.
— Jean Ziegler, senior professor of sociology at the University of Geneva

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Q: Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
A: Chickens hadn’t evolved yet.
— Anonymous

Morality has nothing in common with politics.
— Bob Dylan