All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer]
Even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal. [Marcus Aurelius]
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. [John Muir]
I got nothin’ against mankind. It’s people I can’t stand. [Archie Bunker]
Carry On: Verbal order which means, resume doing nothing. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to lying! [Falstaff, in Shakespeare’s Henry IV]
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. [Clarence Darrow]
If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic. [Aaron Zelman]
Remember that the people that hid Anne Frank were breaking the law and the people that took her to the camps were enforcing it. [Your conscience]
The weak grow strong by effrontery. The strong grow weak through inhibition. [Henry Kissinger]
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. [Mortimer Adler]
Those whom God would destroy, He first makes mad. [Sophocles’ Antigone]
The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement. [unknown]
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. [Aristotle]
If at first you dont succeed, call in an air strike. [Unknown]
Turns out the guy who made a boatload of money investing in Apple was guilty of in cider trading. [Noone Will Claimit]
I am a soldier. I fight where I am told and I win where I fight. [George S. Patton, Jr.]
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. [Robert E. Lee]
I don’t make jokes… I just watch the government and report the facts. [Will Rogers]
The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal: a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. [Ronald Reagan]
A lion uses all its might in attacking a rabbit. [Chinese proverb]
The cause doesn’t have to be righteous and battle doesn’t have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive. [Sebastiab Junger, author]
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. [Ezra Pound]
America is a great playpen of civilization filled with toddler adults who have never experienced the violent brutality of life outside the safe confines of our political borders. [George Strong]
I too, thought Twain had said the quote about reading an obituary with pleasure. It also turns out that Churchill didn’t say “When going through Hell, keep going”
But since it seems like they could have said those things, it makes a good story.
And it doesn’t have to be true to make a good story as any sailor could tell you!
Or air pilot (as compared to river/harbor pilot, and not to be confused with sky pilot [chaplain]). “There I was …”
Interesting.
I think the word ‘was’ needs to be replaced with ‘war’ in Robert E. Lee quote.
Some wise words spoken above. Thanks !
“Individually, we do not bear arms because we are afraid. We bear arms as a declaration of capacity. An armed man can cope – either in the city or in the wilderness – and because he is armed, he is not afraid.
The hoplophobe fears and, yes, hates us, because we are not afraid. We are overwhelmingly “other” than he, and in a way that emphasizes his afflictions.”
Jeff Cooper
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“… I am not aware of ever having used a profane explicative in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time.”
2Lt U.S. Grant
Camargo, Mexico
August, 1846
Good collection.
All- Yes, many ‘other’ quotes are out there, and the origins of some of them are…questionable, at best.
jrg- Fixed…sigh
Auto-correct I’m guessing. No problem, it nearly passed me too. :^)
“An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.” Henry Kissinger
“Intellectuals love to argue but not to know right or wrong but only to ‘best’ another in words. For them to admit they were wrong would mean they chose wrong and they will not admit they are ever wrong”. Brian Essary
You can tell they are lying if their lips are moving.
jrg- Yeah, sigh…
Billy- Both true!
WSF- That too!
Unfortunately there are those turn over illegals to ICE are thought to be acting in the same way as those who turned in Anne Frank. This is not the case but that is what some believe