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USS Utah
04-02-2013, 07:13 PM
I have been collecting quotes for years and have binders full of them. This is a thread for great quotes.

USS Utah
04-02-2013, 07:17 PM
I'll start with a few:


"The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war."

-- Dwight David Eisenhower, April 4, 1956


"Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it."

-- Hannah Arendt


"The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is getting an old one out."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart, an armored warfare proponent in the British Royal Army between the First and Second World Wars


"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

-- Aristotle


"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."

-- Sir James Dewar


"No man is fit to command that cannot command himself."

-- William Penn


"Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like except time."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Slim
04-02-2013, 07:22 PM
One of my favorites

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

-- Abraham Lincoln

GarthUte
04-02-2013, 07:44 PM
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - Gen. George S. Patton

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill

Mormon Red Death
04-05-2013, 09:20 AM
Do these have to military or serious? If not here is one I collected today from Twitter:


"I like making nice women feel good in their underpants" - Rob Delaney

LA Ute
04-05-2013, 09:54 AM
There are many lives of much pain, hardship, and suffering, which, having no stirring interest for any but those who lead them, are disregarded by persons who do not want thought or feeling, but who pamper their compassion and need high stimulants to rouse it.

There not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs; and hence it is that diseased sympathy and compassion are every day expended on out-of-the-way objects, when only too many demands upon the legitimate exercise of the same virtues in a healthy state, are constantly within the sight and hearing of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or playwright must have his. A thief in fustian is a vulgar character, scarcely to be thought of by persons of refinement; but dress him in green velvet, with a high-crowned hat, and change the scene of his operations, from a thickly-peopled city, to a mountain road, and you shall find in him the very soul of poetry and adventure. So it is with the one great cardinal virtue, which, properly nourished and exercised, leads to, if it does not necessarily include, all the others. It must have its romance; and the less of real, hard, struggling work-a-day life there is in that romance, the better.

--Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby.

(Here Dickens is talking about people who were very involved in charities and relief efforts in foreign lands, but paid no attention to poverty and suffering in England. I like the first sentence most.)

USS Utah
04-05-2013, 11:13 AM
Do these have to military or serious? If not here is one I collected today from Twitter:

The only requirement is that the person sharing the quote thinks its great.

SoCalCoug
04-05-2013, 07:11 PM
"What are you going to do, bleed on me?" - Arthur, King of the Britons

Newbomb Turk
04-05-2013, 10:26 PM
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

U-Ute
04-09-2013, 03:01 PM
Will Rogers


It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Mormon Red Death
01-07-2014, 11:41 AM
Michael Irvin, Philosopher:

MAN WHEN WE PLAYED IN THAT COLD WEATHER WE WAS COLD.
3:55 PM - 5 Jan 2014 (https://twitter.com/michaelirvin88/statuses/419950279241383936)

USS Utah
01-07-2014, 11:55 AM
I forgot about this thread when I posted this quote the other day (please allowe me to move it here):

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

mUUser
01-07-2014, 03:21 PM
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers