Greatest Quotes of all Time

[King_Krollen]

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." — Stephen King

[iamdrgonzo]

"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave." ~ Frederick Douglass

[iamdrgonzo]

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
~ Blaise Pascal

[loveboof]

"To thine own self be true" ~ Hamlet Act 1, scene 3 (Polonius)

[Paladin]

Here are a few more from Sir Winston, the greatest Englishman of all time:

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. - stated after he was harrassed for proposing immediate aid to the Soviet Union after the German invasion shortly after 22 June 1941.

This is one of his absolute best:

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

We could probably outstrip the cartoons thread with just Winnie quotes!

[Ineeda SM]

Any man can know lust, but a real man knows love.

........Errol Flynn

[iamdrgonzo]

"And I say to my people's masters: Beware
Beware of the thing that is coming,
Beware of the risen people
Who shall take what ye would not give...
Ye that have harried and held,
Ye that have bullied and bribed.
Tyrants… hypocrites… liars!"

~ Patrick Henry Pearse from his poem The Rebel

[TempestTS]

A little quote from Abraham Lincoln.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed."

[dancespell98]

Dean Keaton said, " I don't believe in God, but I am afraid of him."
Spoken by Verbal Kind in the movies the Usual Suspects.

2 men were approaching a parked car where a trick and a working girl were in the back seat, she said that 2 men are coming towards the car. He said this, "Fuck those motherfuckers baby give me that pussy."

[iamdrgonzo]

"Man has a large capacity for effort. In fact it is so much greater than we think it is that few ever reach this capacity. We should value the faculty of knowing what we ought to do and having the will to do it. Knowing is easy; it is the doing that is difficult. The critical issue is not what we know but what we do with what we know. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. I believe that it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him ... we must live for the future, not for our own comfort or success."


~ Hyman G. Rickover