The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
I may be drunk madame, but in the morning I will be sober, and you will be just as ugly.
Anyone here read The Picture of Dorian Gray? Lord Henry Wotton has some PRICELESS lines in that book.
Hey Harry, you know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts...built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
Americans components, Russian components... all made in Taiwan!
This is how we fix things on Russian space station
*clink!* Bashes machien with rench
I have a whole bunch but those came to mind first
"Life is a movie, learn to play your part to the best you can then when the credits finally roll you may not get an oscar but you can rest easy knowing you got an ovation."
I can't remember who told me that but I live by it in a sense.
"Love is too deep for words to describe. Don't try to explain it, just experience it."
-AC
i have a few
'How happy is the blameless vestal's lot?
The world forgetting by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned.'
'Truly great friends are hard to find, hard to leave and impossible to forget'
also something about the if 'the power of lover was greater than the love of power this world would be a better place' or something like that, that doesn't sound quite right though.
also 'gallop through every sunset but slow down long enough to watch it rise'
hehe.....I love these threads. Here are some of my favorites:
Babs Johnson: "Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!"
-Pink Flamingos
Commoner peasant: "It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves."
-Rashomon
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil." Plato
All hail Robin Williams Live on Broadway
"India has the atomic bomb, Pakistan has the atomic bomb, and we are prepared to fight over Kashmir, and G.W.B. thought it was a sweater, what an *******."
"We'll run through 'em like crap through a goose!!!"
"(French accent) Look, I give a cigarette to a baby! Smoke, little one! Life is shit, learn to know this! **** you Americans! Screw all of you! We are French, we do not care! Fu-Ze Germans are here.....Hello Americans! We love you!"
"If there is ever a nuclear war, the Swiss would be the only ones going 'Vat was zat noise?'"
"No, after five hours of going, you've got more semen than the Fifth Fleet!"
and (not from Robin Williams)
"You can do no great things, only small things with great love."