Meme Time Again
A garland of favorite quotes:
1. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.--Abraham Lincoln
2. The art of war is really very simple: find out where the enemy is; hit him as hard as you can as often as you can; and keep moving on.--Ulysses S. Grant
3. I think we know what military glory is: to die gloriously on the field of battle, and then to have your name spelt wrong in the newspapers.--William Tecumseh Sherman
4. Yossarian intended to live forever or perish in the attempt.--Joseph Heller, Catch-22
5. If I were turned out of this kingdom in my petticoat, I would prosper anywhere in Christendom.--Elizabeth I
6. The soul of sinful man is like a drunkard who falls off his horse first on one side, and then on the other.--Martin Luther.
7. You cannot help people who are right for the wrong reason.--Arthur Koestler
8. Everyone believes that he is an individual and that everybody else is nothing.--Julius H. Marx
9. Publish and be damned.--The Duke of Wellington
10. Just listen to my lyrics.--Joan Jett, when asked about her personal life or for opinions on major issues
11. The public that survived a year of this team [the 1962 New York Mets] got to be congratulated.--Casey Stengel
12. Sock it to ME?--Richard Nixon
13. [Of a particularly stupid wartime rumor]It takes an intellectual to believe something like that.--George Orwell
14. All life is about trying to feel again the way you felt when you first got high.--George Carlin
15. Virtue is not always amiable.--John Adams
16. Football combines both of the worst aspects of modern American life: violence and committee meetings.--George F. Will
17. It is not enough to be for and against the right things; you must also have talent.--Pauline Kael
18. A writer is his own fault.--John O'Hara
19. Close counts in horseshoes, not in war.--Omar Bradley.
20. I may be old; I may be stupid; but it means nothing to me.--George S. Patton [of a lecture by General Montgomery]
21. [Reviewing a movie called 'He Walked by Night'] This film should walk by night, tinkle a little bell, and cry 'unclean, unclean.'
22. Alas, I fear that I am becoming a god.--The Emperor Vespasian, on his deathbed
23. Respect for the rights of others is peace.--Benito Juarez
24. When the thing stands up, the brain goes straight into the ground.--Old Yiddish saying
1. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.--Abraham Lincoln
2. The art of war is really very simple: find out where the enemy is; hit him as hard as you can as often as you can; and keep moving on.--Ulysses S. Grant
3. I think we know what military glory is: to die gloriously on the field of battle, and then to have your name spelt wrong in the newspapers.--William Tecumseh Sherman
4. Yossarian intended to live forever or perish in the attempt.--Joseph Heller, Catch-22
5. If I were turned out of this kingdom in my petticoat, I would prosper anywhere in Christendom.--Elizabeth I
6. The soul of sinful man is like a drunkard who falls off his horse first on one side, and then on the other.--Martin Luther.
7. You cannot help people who are right for the wrong reason.--Arthur Koestler
8. Everyone believes that he is an individual and that everybody else is nothing.--Julius H. Marx
9. Publish and be damned.--The Duke of Wellington
10. Just listen to my lyrics.--Joan Jett, when asked about her personal life or for opinions on major issues
11. The public that survived a year of this team [the 1962 New York Mets] got to be congratulated.--Casey Stengel
12. Sock it to ME?--Richard Nixon
13. [Of a particularly stupid wartime rumor]It takes an intellectual to believe something like that.--George Orwell
14. All life is about trying to feel again the way you felt when you first got high.--George Carlin
15. Virtue is not always amiable.--John Adams
16. Football combines both of the worst aspects of modern American life: violence and committee meetings.--George F. Will
17. It is not enough to be for and against the right things; you must also have talent.--Pauline Kael
18. A writer is his own fault.--John O'Hara
19. Close counts in horseshoes, not in war.--Omar Bradley.
20. I may be old; I may be stupid; but it means nothing to me.--George S. Patton [of a lecture by General Montgomery]
21. [Reviewing a movie called 'He Walked by Night'] This film should walk by night, tinkle a little bell, and cry 'unclean, unclean.'
22. Alas, I fear that I am becoming a god.--The Emperor Vespasian, on his deathbed
23. Respect for the rights of others is peace.--Benito Juarez
24. When the thing stands up, the brain goes straight into the ground.--Old Yiddish saying