Great Quotes.Any others?

Frank S. · Post by **Frank S.** » Tue 23 Sep, 2003 1:34 am

JFK jr's last words to his maid as he prepared to leave on his fateful flight:

"Make sure there's food in the dog's bowl, and I'll feed the fish."

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Tue 23 Sep, 2003 1:47 am

Frank!
Evil,pure evil.
Love it.

Wholley.

Frank S. · Post by **Frank S.** » Tue 23 Sep, 2003 1:51 am

Well, you know, that's also why they gave him a funeral at sea: so that Teddy could drive to it.

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Tue 23 Sep, 2003 3:06 am

Frank!
Enough already!
Rolling around on the floor is unseemly at my age.
Wholley.

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Tue 23 Sep, 2003 3:47 am

Sir Winston Churchill.
On the subject of relations between the US and the UK.
"Two Great Countries divided by a common language".
His mother was an American.
That one's for you Marina.

Wholley.

Frank S. · Post by **Frank S.** » Thu 25 Sep, 2003 2:07 am

Lord Sandwich: Really, Mr. Wilkes, I don't know whether you'll die on the gallows or of the pox.
John Wilkes: That depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.

I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.
Walter Matthau (to Barbra Steisand)

George Bernard Shaw (to Winston Churchill): Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one.
Churchill: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend second - if there is one.

Andy O'Pray · Post by **Andy O'Pray** » Thu 25 Sep, 2003 4:54 am

Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast to the French people, 21 Oct. 1940.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

Aye - Andy.

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Fri 26 Sep, 2003 11:54 pm

"Well everybody has to be somewhere"
Hitler.His part in my downfall.
Spike Milligan.
Wholley.

zero megahertz · Post by **zero megahertz** » Sat 27 Sep, 2003 12:29 am

On the side of a box of a Swedish chainsaw,

"Do not attempt to stop the chain with hands or genitals."

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Sat 27 Sep, 2003 2:08 am

"Things are going to get much worse,before they get worse"
Lily Tomlin.(sounded more like Frank S to me)

Wholley.

sp10122 · Post by **sp10122** » Sat 27 Sep, 2003 10:40 am

I did stick this on another thread but it never realy took off......

Pain is only weakness leaving the body

- Sandhurst PTI

"Excuse me, Sarge....."

Sarge, Sarge? Sir, there's only three types of Sarge - sausarge, massarge and backpassarge and I'm f**king neither

- Sandhurst CSgt

Quotes...I think alot of the good ones are from WWII and many from Americans (surprisingly)....

WWII

"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives."

"No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account."

"We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight them on the beaches, the landing grounds, in the fields, in the streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender." (after the fall of France)

- Winston Churchill

The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
- German General Hans Von Luck

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
- General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 1944

"Men, we're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."
- Lt Gen. Lewis 'Chesty' Puller, USMC, Guadalcanal

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."

"I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight."

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

"A plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."

- General George Patton

Gulf War II

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Iraq.
- Gen A. Whitney Brown

- An unnamed soldier on Sky News when asked if Umm Qasr is 'like Southampton'.
"Well, there's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth"

- Donald Rumsfeld asked on NBC why the Iraqi defense ministry was still intact:
"Obviously we missed it."

As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country, the fate of many nations rest."
- Tony Blair's address to the nation (20 March 2003)

Other

"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
- Josephus Daniels

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...."
- Major-General John Sedgwick, 9 may 1864.
Killed by a sniper during the battle of Spotsylvania.

War is a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
-Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Sat 27 Sep, 2003 5:24 pm

sp,
Why "surprisingly"
You sound like Lew.

INCOMING!
Wholley.

zero megahertz · Post by **zero megahertz** » Sat 27 Sep, 2003 5:46 pm

"The problem with political jokes is that they often get elected"

-Anon

voodoo sprout · Post by **voodoo sprout** » Sat 27 Sep, 2003 7:45 pm

There's a rather large pile of good quotes here courtesy of ARRSE, though not all are very polite

.

Jason The Argonaut · Post by **Jason The Argonaut** » Sat 27 Sep, 2003 7:47 pm

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them - Napoleon Bonaparte

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