Favorite Historical Quotations

[Lady Greyjoy]

Whether you favor the classics or the obscure, here is the place to place all or your favorite quotes by famous men and women of the past.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill (English Philosopher and Economist)

"Love is the destiny of those who have no fate"
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."
-Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor)

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something"
-Last words of Pancho Villa, Mexican Bandit

[LouisaB]

Not sure how old the last one of these is but they are some quotes I like.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" - Edith Wharton

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the Way." - A J Muste

[Spew Member]

"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

-Walt Disney

[katiekake]

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -Ben Franklin

"If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all." -Noam Chomsky

"My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -Pablo Picasso ( I love this one! He's so arrogant!)

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up." -Pastor Martin Niemoller, Dachau, 1944

There is also a quote that I like about Artists and Teachers being the first to be scrutinized, but I couldn't find it...

[free_girl]

Veni, vidi, vici.
(I came, I saw, I conquered)
inscription on Caesar's Pontic triumph
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.
Mark Twain:tu:
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

[Alastor D]

The beginning of all wisdom is the acknowledgement of facts (My own translation from memory, I don't have the original quote)
Said by J k Paasikivi, post world war II president of Finland about how to deal with Comrade Stalin and his lot.

[Stayce]

Elenor Roosevelt's "Remember No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" it is absolutely true.

[Lady Greyjoy]

No Better Friend...No Worse Enemy
- Funerary Inscription: Publius Cornelius Sulla, Dictator of Rome.

"You seek a diffrent world than that in which we live"
-Thycidides (Greek Historian)

[Dementor Dave]

This qoute was in my sig for a long time,

"What is left when honor is lost." -Publilius Syrus

[caindo]

"Nosce te ipsum " - Know Thyself (in Latin)
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be fixed by what is right with America" - Bill Clinton

[Auror Williamson]

"From time to time, the Tree of Liberty must be watered by the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson

[Kneazle]

"For mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, tho' everything is altered."

I think it was John Dryden who said it, but I'm not positive. Removed from its original context, it's a very astute observation of the abiding sameness of human nature. It's pretty neat. :)

[marauderlupin]

Heard a good one in class the other day:

L'etat c'est moi!

[busy91]

"The English have no sense; they give us twenty knives...for one beaver skin." --an Algonquin Indian, 1634

"Nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of other colours of men." --Thomas Jefferson to slave-born inventor Benjamin Banneker

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." --General George S. Patton, U.S. Army

[Lady Greyjoy]

One of my favorite historical quotes requires some backround:

The Roman religion required that before a battle, some sort of augry (divination) had to be performed, one of the most usual forms of this was to place food in front of sacred animals, that is animals had that had been blessed by a sacerdotis ( a priest). During the first war against Carthage an ansestor of Scipio Africanus (famous roman general), took an augry. In this case the sacred animals were chickens. However they were not eating a very bad omen. Being on a ship he threw the chickens over the side of the ship and proclaimed:

" If they will not eat, let them drink!"

And fought the battle anyway.

Another humorous quotation is by Diogenes, the founder of the school of Cynic Philosophy.

According to legend, Diogenes was sitting on the ground in the middle of the agora (marketplace), for he believed that possesions degrade the soul.

Alexander The Great was at that time passing through the city and recognized the famous philosopher, he stopped immeditaly and asked Diogenes if he could do any thing for so great a philosopher, the cynic replied:

"You can get out of my sun."

[Mundungus Fletc]

Cato always wondered how two astrologers could look at each other without laughing (Cicero)

No man loses honour who had any in the first place (Syrus)

Books, if you're lucky you'll be loved in Rome: if you're unlucky, you'll be chewed by bookworms and forgotten; if you're very unlucky you might become a textbook (Horace)

[Pilum]

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist

[Mundungus Fletc]

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist
:elaugh: :elaugh:
If we're going for famous last words "Either that wallpaper goes or I do" Oscar Wilde

[Morgan]

"An eye for an eye only leaves the world blind" - Mahatma Ghandi

[busy91]

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist

That is rich! :rotfl:

"An eye for an eye only leaves the world blind" - Mahatma Ghandi

This one is deep.

[Meghan73211]

"You seek a diffrent world than that in which we live"
-Thycidides (Greek Historian)
Thycidides, the a father of history, :sigh a man after my own heart.

"Those who forget their mistakes are doomed to repeat them, but those who remember their mistakes are doomed to repeat them also."
--Professor Havrilsack,UM-flint(my favorite professor :) )
So true.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
--Benjamin Disraeli
LOL... :rotfl: I used this on a research paper about the media. I love it because it applies to everything

Mellon pulled the whistle
Hoover rang the bell,
Wall Street gave the signal,
And the country went to hell.
--Anonymous ditty

Ok that is it.

[Lady Greyjoy]

O Tempore!
O Mores!
-Cicero

"O, What times!
O, What morals!"

[Alastor D]

"You'll never make any money out of children's books, Jo".

Said by Barry Cunningham of Bloomsbury to You-guess-who.

[Lady Greyjoy]

Originally posted by MauraderLupin
Heard a good one in class the other day:

L'etat c'est moi!

That's one of my personal favorites, L'etat c'est moi ( I am the State!). I sometimes shout it out when I'm being thwarted....it doesn't work as well for me as it did for Louis :p .

[StarAnise]

"A colour sense is more important, in the devlopment of the individual, than a sense of right or wrong."

"He who is inclined to call a spade a spade, should pick it up."

Oscar Wilde, king of the witty one-liner

[007]

"
"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up." -Pastor Martin Niemoller, Dachau, 1944


Yeah that is a deep quote, it's even in my sig.

Another one is

"I have become Death, shatterer of worlds"
This was by J. Oppenheimer, one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project, after the exploding of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, NM
It's also a quote by Shiva in the Vedas

[Giebfried]

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist

That was one of the northern generals durning the civil war right??

I actually have a poster of the Pastor Neimoller quote on my wall... It is by far one of my favorites of all time.

Here is my favorite Napoleon quote: "Glory is fleeting, obscurity is forever"

[Auror Williamson]

That was one of the northern generals durning the civil war right??

Yes. It was said by Major General Sedgwick at the battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in 1864. Sedgwick, trying to rally his men, said in reference to Confederate sharpshooters, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis--" and was shot.

[Giebfried]

thanks...

[Professor Gray]

Here are two quotes which, if they had been correct, this web site and the HP movies as we know them would not exist!

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
-Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

[marauderlupin]

I like your quotes, Professor Gray :)



It was leaked that President Richard Nixon called Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau "an *******". When he was asked about it, P.M. Trudeau said, "I've been called worse things by better people." :clap: The best Trudeau quote, in my opinion :agree:

[StarAnise]

"Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vison sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
Ambrose Bierce

"Socialism is when you have two cows and give one to your neighbour.
Communism is when you have two cows and the state takes both and gives you milk.
Fascism is when you have two cows and the state takes both and sells you milk.
Nazism is when you have two cows and the state takes both and shoots you.
Capitalism is when you have two cows, sell one and buy a bull.
Bureaucracy is when you have two cows and the state takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain."
John J. Quin

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King Jnr

[FirefightingMuggle]

We need men who can dream of things that never were. --John F. Kennedy

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? --Mahatma Gandhi, speaking of war

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. --Robert E. Lee

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. --J.R.R. Tolkien

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." -- Abe Lincoln

"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" --Abe Lincoln

[Lady Greyjoy]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
-Attributed to Benjamin Disreali, Prime Minister of Britain

"If only the Roman people had one neck"
-Gaius Caesar (Caligula)

[Fred Black]

Winston Churchill said: "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia, it is a mystry wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma"

[Gwenog Jones]

Mine was already posted by Lady Greyjoy :)

"Love is the destiny of those who have no fate"
-Napoleon Bonaparte

[iluvhhr]

"Walk softly and carry a big stick."- Teddy Roosevelt

[haha]

I love Einstein so here are a couple of quotes of his which i like about relativity:
'when is Oxford station going to arrive at the train'
'when you're out with a nice girl, an hour seems like a minute. When you're walking on hot coals, a minute seems like an hour. That's relativity.'

[fenellaevangela]

I have a rather large collections of quotes, so you will have to forgive me; I cannot find this one and I have forgotten who it was who actually said it. He was an american general, if I remember correctly:

"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."

Another favourite is: "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind" -Ghandi. However, I see that it was already mentioned.

[haha]

This is a chinese proverb:
"Ask a question and you're a fool for five minutes, keep silent and you're a fool forever" I'm not sure if that's the exact saying but it runs along those lines.

[mother]

Queen Victoria about one of her Prime Minister's, William Gladstone 'He addressed me as if I am a public meeting'
Lord Palmerston, another of her PM's, on his deathbed 'die my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do.'
When George V was on his deathbed, his wife Queen Mary tried to cheer him up by telling him he would be soon up and about and in his favourite resort of Bognor Regis. The official last words recorded for him were 'How is the Empire'. Those there swore they were 'bugger Bognor'

And now for a bit of doggerell
'the cat, the rat and Lovell our dog
ruleth all England under a hog'.

It's anonymous but 50 housepoints to anyone who can identify them all. None of them are or ever have been Hogwarts proffessors.

[haha]

And now for a bit of doggerell
'the cat, the rat and Lovell our dog
ruleth all England under a hog'.

It's anonymous but 50 housepoints to anyone who can identify them all. None of them are or ever have been Hogwarts proffessors.

I found that it wasn't anonymous but by William Collyngbourne.

"The Cat (Catesby), the Rat (Ratcliffe), and Lovell our Dog, ruleth all England under a Hog (Richard III)."
William Collyngbourne

btw two other poems about Richard the third are famous nursery rhymes:

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty (Richard III) sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall (Battle of Bosworth).
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Hi Diddle-Diddle

Hi diddle diddle, the Cat (Catsby) and the fiddle;
The cow (Anne Neville) jumped over the moon (became Queen).
The little dog (Lovell) laughed to see such fun;
and the Dish (Richard the Devil (or "Dish")) ran away with the spoon (at the coronation, for the anointing oil)"

[mother]

Thanks for that Haha. It is interesting how something like that can be pivotal in altering public opinion.

In the middle ages the phrase Humpty Dumpty was used to describe somebody very fat or obese. Richard was as thin as a lat. Many web sites describe it as referring to a canon that fell of the church wall during the seige of Colchester in 1648. We were told at school that it referred to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. He was the youngest son of Henry IV born in 1390. After the death of his eldest brother Henry V the second brother John Duke of Beford became regent and after his death, the third brother Thomas being already dead, Humphrey became regent for the young Henry VI. He was very popular with the general public but deeply resented by the Beaufort party (the illegitimate branch of their grandfather John of Gaunt's family). Humphrey was especially resented by Cardinal Henry Beaufort, cousin to him and the young king who beleived that he should be regent. In 1447 Humphrey, then aged 56 was suddenly arrested on charges of high treason and carted off to the tower where he died of ill health. He was known by the general public as Good Duke Humphrey. He was not murdered in the strictest sense of the word but take a man in failing health and subject him to a sudden,unpleasant shock that puts him in fear of his life and ....
Humphrey Duke of Gloucester also fitted the physical description of a humpty dumpty, obese, florid etc.

[haha]

Thanks for that Haha. It is interesting how something like that can be pivotal in altering public opinion.

No worries mother :) And after reading your post I'd have to agree that maybe the Duke of Gloucester does fit the song 'Humpty Dumpty' better than Richard III. I actually didn't know that the phrase was used in the middle ages to describe someone who's obese, I thought that the image might have developed later on in history.

[Delving]

I have a rather large collections of quotes, so you will have to forgive me; I cannot find this one and I have forgotten who it was who actually said it. He was an american general, if I remember correctly:

"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."



It was said by General William T. Sherman following the Civil War.

Many years later, Senator Mo Udall parodied this quote by saying, "If nominated I will run -- for the Mexican border, and if elected, I will resist extradition."

[Lynn Tyger]

I have several, but I can't think of many right now, or I forgot who said them. However, I have to put a favorite quote of mine.

"You all can go to Hell; I'm going to Texas. - Davy Crocket

[ArtemisiaDax]

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" --Last words of a general during the Civil War. (It's real, I swear! Google it if you don't believe me!)

[MoodyMania]

It was said by General William T. Sherman following the Civil War.

Many years later, Senator Mo Udall parodied this quote by saying, "If nominated I will run -- for the Mexican border, and if elected, I will resist extradition."
You are correct, Sherman was the first to use this quote. However, in the 1960s - 1970s a comedian named Pat Paulson used it as well and since he was heard saying it everytime he was on any show it may be where the original poster heard it first. In fact most people I know thought Pat Paulson was the originator of the quote. I guess Paulson never gave Sherman credit for stealing his quote. :eyebrows:

[haha]

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" --Last words of a general during the Civil War. (It's real, I swear! Google it if you don't believe me!)
don't worry, we believe you :D The general was General John Sedgwick, in the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864.

[mimeboy16]

My favorite is by John F. Kennedy and anyone interested in U.S. Polotics will understand it!

"Washigton D.C. is a town of Northern hospitality and Southern efficientcy." ~ J.F.K.

I want to go into Polotics so when I saw that I laghfed till I couldn't breath because it is SOOOOOO true!

[haha]

My favorite is by John F. Kennedy and anyone interested in U.S. Polotics will understand it!

"Washigton D.C. is a town of Northern hospitality and Southern efficientcy." ~ J.F.K.

I want to go into Polotics so when I saw that I laghfed till I couldn't breath because it is SOOOOOO true!
Can you explain what this means... I'm not American so i'm one of those who have no idea what you're talking about :p

[Wandering Bard]

Can you explain what this means... I'm not American so i'm one of those who have no idea what you're talking about :p

The South are known for their hospitality, the North for their efficiency. Therefore Washington D.C. is neither hospitable nor efficient.

[QueenOfTheSquirrels]

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded...I have seen dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed...I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[haha]

The South are known for their hospitality, the North for their efficiency. Therefore Washington D.C. is neither hospitable nor efficient.
Yeah, i thought it might be something like that :p Thanks! Wandering Bard :tu:

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded...I have seen dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed...I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maybe Roosevelt should come and have a chat to Howard and Bush :huh:

[Mundungus Fletc]

Not a quote so much as a genuine epitaph that makes me laugh every time I see it

Sacred to the memory of
Major James Brush
Royal Artillery, who was killed
by the accidental discharge of
a pistol by his orderly,
14th April 1831.
Well done, good and faithful servant.

[haha]

Is book quotes allowed :huh:
Because then i would have to say that a classical quote from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is:
'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'.
P&P actually came second in 'My Favourite Book' (Australia) with LotR coming first. OotP came sixth, with all HP books coming in the top 100. So we can safely say that jk's taken over Oz ;)

[Lady Greyjoy]

Is [sic]book quotes allowed

If they are historical. :)

Austen is great, but this thread is more for quotes about history or about humanity/life/love uttered by historical (not fictional) people.

Quoting Austen's letters would be perfect .

Some good ones:

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

[Potters Goblet]

"I do not tell anyone HOW to do something. I tell them what to do and let them surprise me with their ingenuity."

George S. Patton

[Lawrence]

My favorite historical figure is Winston Churchill.
-It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
-I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill

[fireangel265]

In spite of everything I still believe people are good at heart-Anne Frank

When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones that open for us.

[Vumeister]

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

All that is gold does not glitter;
not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither;
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken;
a light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
and crownless again shall be the King.

- J R R Tolkien

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
-Zell Miller

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
-George W. Bush

[theprof]

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." (Helen Keller)
"The Christian ideal has not be tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and left untried." (G. K. Chesterton)
"The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, we did it ourselves." (Zen saying)

[haha]

Austen is great, but this thread is more for quotes about history or about humanity/life/love uttered by historical (not fictional) people.
Well technically no one actually said that line, and since Austen wrote it, you could sort of say that she said it, because she was expressing her ideas of the time through her books, like all authors do.

[MagicMuggle]

"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation!" -Pierre Trudeau stated while being asked about his views on homosexuality. I find it funny since it seems like something he would say.

[haha]

I heard of that quote MagicMuggle but i never could find out who said it :D

[Potters Goblet]

"I shall return..."

MacArthur
(he never did.)

[snape_sinclaire]

"We try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'No comment!' with some degree of knowledge."

-Political spokesperson reportedly responding to a group of journalists

Does anyone happen to know who exactly said this??

~Sinc

[MagicMuggle]

"We try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'No comment!' with some degree of knowledge."
By William Baker, CIA spokesman.

I have never heard that quote before...I like it! :agree:

I heard of that quote MagicMuggle but i never could find out who said it :DI guess it just goes to show that we all learn something new every day...Well school helps a bit too! ;) hehehe!

[snape_sinclaire]

By William Baker, CIA spokesman.

I have never heard that quote before...I like it! :agree:



hehe.. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

A few more quotes...

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher
(1844-1900)


~Sinc

[haha]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" Albert Einstein

[haha]

Hitchcock:

The length of a film should be directly proportional to the endurance of the human bladder :lol:

[snape_sinclaire]

Hitchcock:

The length of a film should be directly proportional to the endurance of the human bladder :lol:


hehe.. I really like that one. :D

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

-Napoleon

[haha]

hehe.. I really like that one.
Yeah i know, when i read it i couldn't stop cracking up...here's another one:

"If money doesn't grow on trees, why do banks have branches"

[yarddog1]

Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant.
Gladiators

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right- then go ahead.
David Crockett

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius

There are only two forces that unite men- fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and as a man to do what you have in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and kindliness, and freedom, and justice: and give yourself relief from all other thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

What is done well is done quickly enough.
Augustus Caesar

[haha]

"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
-Charles Dudley Warner,

[sky]

"Never certainly were there before so many detestable Characters at one time in England as in this period of its History; never were amiable Men so scarce. The number of them throughout the whole Kingdom amounting only to five." :D Jane Austen writing in her "History of England", which she admits is "by a partial prejudiced and ignorant historian" and that
"there will be very few dates in this history." sorry, it is half literature, half history really- but she was talking about the reign of Charles I honest!!

[snape_sinclaire]

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."


"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

[haha]

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

George Lucas

[Blue_Eyes]

"Sir, we will give them the bayonet."
General "Stonewall" Thomas J. Jackson

"It is a good thing war is terrible. We should grow too fond of it."
General Robert. E. Lee

"We shall see very soon whether I shall not frighten them"
General "Stonewall" Thomas J. Jackson

"General, if you put every man now on the other side of the Potomac in the field to approach me over that same line, and give me plenty of ammunition, I will kill them all before they reach my line."
General "Old Pete" Longstreet

"Push on; push on."
"Stonewall" Thomas J. Jackson

[haha]

"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
Emo Philips.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams.

[MaggieMay]

One of my favourite quotes:

"The one way of tolerating existance is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."

Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember who said it, or where I found it.

I also love this one:

"If thy heart fail thee, climb not at all."

I believe I read that it belongs to Elizabeth I, but I'm not certain.

[haha]

Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember who said it, or where I found it.
It's taken from a quote from a letter by Gustave Flaubert

[GryffondorGrl]

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

"I have a dream."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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"I have a dream."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
That's a famous one. I live on the other side of the world, and i know it.