Quotes from history

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

i already created a thread on this...oh well
my fav quotes

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
we shall defend our Island,
whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
winston churchill

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

Fear not that your life will someday end. Fear only that you do
nothing with it.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

What consumes your mind, controls your life

Tell me, I will forget.
Show me, I may remember.
Involve me, and I will understand.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, a
nd knows what the mind cannot understand.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

show me a hero and i will write you a tragedy

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing

My favourite is in my sig.

Only one thing is necessary for evil to triumph... that is that good men do nothing....

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth...

It is better to die on one's feet, than to live on one's knees...

"What the f*ck was that?" - Mayor of Hiroshima, 1945

i don't think japan had mayors 😕

but that was a wee bit funny...

when i see a naked man carrying a butchar knife chasing after a woman, i shott the son of a bit.ch, that's my polocy.----America's greatest police officer...Dirty Harry

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires, a villain. Mission Impossible II 😎

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
- Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman

i did not have sexual relations with that woman!

-- William J Clinton

"Dum Spiro Spero" = "As long as i breath i hope" ...i don't know who it's from...latin proverb

Do what you can ,
with what you have ,
right where you are .
-Theodore Roosevelt

The crisis of today
is the joke of tomorrow .
-H.G. Wells

The best way to cheer yourself ,
is to cheer somebody else up .
-Mark Twain

Stressed spelled backwards , is desserts .
-Loretta LaRoche

and finally...

We most learn to give ourselves permission to
blunder , to fail , and to make fools of ourselves
every day for the rest of our lives .
-Sheldon Kopp

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"

-Samuel Prescott, battle of Bunker Hill

But as we all know, the battle actually took place on Breed's hill. 🙄

"Ounce i rose above the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse beyond this Illusion. I was souring ever higher, but i flew to high. though my eyes could see i still was a blind man, though my mind could think i still was a mad man.I hear the voices when i'm dreaming,i can hear them say. Carry on our wayward son, there will be peace when you are done"

"Masquerading as man with a reason, if i claim to be a wise man, it surely means that i dont know" Boston...Favorite musical quote.

I first discovered drinking alcohol doesn't make you smart when I went into a phonebox while drunk, then couldn't find my way back out.
-Billy Connely

"I regret that i have but one life to give for my country" John Adams.