Favorite Quotes

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

- Oscar Levant


Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.


Take me, and I your slave will be,
As long as life endure;
Constant in my fidelity,
And in your service sure.

- Ovid


To flee vice is the beginning of virtue,
and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

- Horace


"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
office."

- Aesop


My life is pure and free from stain,
My heart is sound and true.
No gallant I, of conquests vain,
But faithful still to you

- Ovid


"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ,
they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear.
They asked me which one is different and does not belong,
they taught me different was wrong."

- Ani Difranco

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!

- Unknown


Nunc scio quit sit amor

- Virgil


You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

- Edgar Allan Poe

With us the nineteenth centurys age of nerves is ended
There will be no other revoloution in Germany for the next thousand years!

- Hitler


O what would the world be, Once Bereft? Of wet and of wilderness -
let them be left, Oh let them be left wilderness and wet ,
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!

- Gerard Manly Hopkins


The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

- Otto Von Bismarck


Veni, vidi, vici

- Julius Caesar


The result justifies the deed
(Exitus acta probat)

- Ovid


If then thy soul rejoyce today,
Drive far tomorrow's cares away.
In laughter let them all be drowned;
No perfect good is to be found

- Horace


She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

- William Wordsworth


One mortal feels fate's sudden Blow,
Anothers lingering death comes slow;
And what of life they take from thee,
The gods may give to punish me

- Horace


For none my Heart more warmly grows.

- Horace


Long as I live, I shall prefer
A gay, good natured, easy friend.
To every blessing Heaven can send.

- Horace


You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie


I ’ve heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Hath oftener left me mourning.

- William Wordsworth


For me, a little cell I choose,
Fit for my mind, fit for my Muse,
Which soft content does best adorn,
Shunning the knaves and fools I scorn.

- Horace



Be wise! Drink free, and in so short a space
Do not protracted hopes of life embrace!

- Horace


We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

- Thucydides

That best portion of a good man’s life,—
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

- William Wordsworth


"Deutschland! Dein Lebensraum ist jetzt dein Sterbensraum"

- French patriots


Oh , The weather outside is frightful!
But that fire is.....mmn.. delightful..
Since we've no place to go..
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

- Frank Sinatra


The bard whom Mantua first with wonder heard.
The world no purer spirit knows,
For none my heart more warmly glows

- Horace


You may murder me,
But you cannot judge me,
That I denie you.

- Herman Goering (Nazi Gestapo Chief)


"Es gibt keine verzweifelten Lagen, es gibt nur verzweifelte Menschen".

- Heinz Guerderian


What we do in life,
Echo's in eternity.

- Maximus


And when he gets to heaven,
To St. Peter he will tell,
One more soldier reporting Sir...
I've served my time in hell.

- Unknown


The diference between insanity and sanity,
Is mesured only by success.

- Julian Carter


Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


What is life......Life is the Nation,
The individual must die anyway,
Because beyond the life of the individual
Is the Nation.

- Hitler


To give me an Ultimatim!
Now that really is the end.

- Hitler


The war in spite of all setbacks,
Will one day go down in history,
As the most glorious and heroic manifestation,
Of a people's will to live

- Hitler


"...people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders...All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce (opponents)
pacifists for lack of patriotism."

Why of course the people don't want war...It is the leaders...
who determine policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...
all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

- Herman Goering (Nazi Gestapo Chief)


Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

- Goethe.


"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor,
for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed,
the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."

-- Julius Caesar


Hitler's, not my Friend,
He's my Equal

- Unknown


The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein


You, can not be a part of our Movement!
Until we have been a part of yours!

- Hitler


"Virtue does not come from money,
but rather from virtue comes money,
and all other things good to man."

- Socrates


I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.


- Socrates, quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'


It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way

- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


Time crumbles things;
everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

- Aristotle, Physics


You want to know
Why any girl can catch my eye
Love has never heard
That silly word why

- Propertius


Though I may go blind with minstrel Thamyras, my grudging friend,
I'll keep my eye for beautiful girls till the very end.

- Propertius


Ten tongues, ten months - still could I not convey
The unholy tricks that all such women play.

- Ovid


Think of all the songs I made,
And the gifts I gave,
Yet in all the time I had her,
She would never say -
That silly word -
"I love you"

- Propertius


For who shall we fight for now?
...For the coming man.

- Hitler


I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

- Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment


May God Almighty give our work His blessing,
strengthen our purpose,
and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people,
for we are fighting not for ourselves,
but for Germany.

- Hitler


Should anyone here not know the art of love,
read this, and learn by reading how to love.

- Ovid


The girl I loved has left me.She has left me.
Do not tell me, friend I have no cause for distress?
There are no enemies save those we love...
Kill me and my anger would be less.

- Propertius


In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


O how can I see her leaning on another,
Who was mine, who was mine, so lately?

- Propertius


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

- Friedrich Nietzsche


Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

- Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems


But, oh! how blest! how more than blest thy bride,
Allied in bliss, if any get allied:
If so, let mine the stolen enjoyment be;
If not, behold a willing bride to me.

- Ovid


Let us return, then, for a time,
To our accustomed round of rhyme;
And let my songs' familiar art
Not fail to move my lady's heart.

- Horace


It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

- Horace, Odes

Enjoy


Von Manstein

After battle of waterloo opposing general say to nepolian.
"You Fight for Power, We fight for honour"

to which he replies
"People always fight for what they don't have"

Might be a little inaccurate, but ye get da drift

"One thing ive learned is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye!"

Marge it takes two to lie. One to lie, one to listen - Homer

I can resist everything but temptation - Oscar Wilde

And my sig....!

Barry Aldwell wrote:

Great battles are won with artillery - Napoleon

not his finest comment