OT - quotes

Mephisto · #1 October 3rd, 2001, 02:25 PM

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."

Edward Harriman

Askan Nightbringer · #2 October 3rd, 2001, 03:05 PM

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
-- Dom Helda Camara

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 and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
-- President Abe Lincoln

No! Try Not -- Do, or Do Not; There is no Try...
-- Yoda

They make a desert and call it peace.
-- Tacitus (defining Roman imperialism)

Well hello Mr Fancy Pants.
-- Ash (ever quotable)

When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty.
-- Arthur Ponsonby (British diplomat and writer)

I'll stop now. I could look forever.
-- Askan

Phoenix-D · #3 October 3rd, 2001, 06:37 PM

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves,
only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that
there may be something to them we are missing."
Gamel Abdel Nasser

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
~Thomas Edison

Phoenix-D

dmm · #4 October 3rd, 2001, 06:47 PM

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." Jesus

Not the best quote for a wargaming forum, though.

MegaTrain · #5 October 3rd, 2001, 06:58 PM

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
- President George W. Bush

dmm · #6 October 3rd, 2001, 06:59 PM

One of my personal Favorites:
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." Einstein

From a Soviet-era officers' manual (or maybe it was a WWII German officers' manual; I can't remember):
"The difficulty in planning against the Americans is that their officers never follow their own manuals."

Puke · #7 October 3rd, 2001, 07:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by dmm:
"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." Jesus

Not the best quote for a wargaming forum, though.

bull, its the perfect quote for a wargaming forum. the man might have meant it as a statement to encourage pacifism, but if you look at it from a Klingon perspective (or space viking, as you may prefer) It encourages a glorious death by which you will attain Valhala (or stovalkor, both of which i probably spelled wrong.)