What are some of your favorite Quotes

[Ike Bana]

"What this country needs is a good 5 cent cigar." - Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States of America.

"What this 5 cent cigar needs is a good country." - Unkown 60's anti-war demonstrator.

[bobabode]

"I'd rather have my country die for me." Grace Slick

[Ike Bana]

Promoting his plan for relaxation areas on either side of the Chicago river in downtown Chicago...

"So da workers can come down to da riverside on dere lunchbreak and enjoy da beautiful river wit dere lunch and a battle of beer.. And if dey want dey can bring a little stick and a line and trow a hook inna da river and dey can catch a fish. 'Cause dere's nuttin' as wholesome as a fish." - Richard J. Daley 1979.

I've paraphrased a bit, the complete accurate quote is impossible to find. But the last sentence...that's word for word.

[Ike Bana]

After the city of Cicero paid out over $675,000 dollars in a sexual harassment settlement to several female city hall workers who were groped, cajoled, and otherwise harassed by Cicero Town President Larry Dominick (still town pres., BTW) in 2011, Dominick was asked what he had learned from this incident.

“You’re not supposed to touch ‘em, talk dirty to 'em, all kinds of stuff like dat, y'know, general stuff that most people should unnerstand.”

Larry and the new missus, 2006.

[piece-itpete]

"No one is better than anyone else and everyone is the best at everything they do." - Principal Skinner

Pete

[finnbow]

“This tragedy would not have happened, if there had been peace on that land, or in any case if military operations in southeastern Ukraine had not been renewed.” - Vladimir Putin

Up is down, down is up.

[Tom Joad]

You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag

George S. Patton

[BlueStreak]

"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks."----

George Orwell, from Politics and the English Language

Dave

[Tom Joad]

"you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you'll find you get what you need."

Mick Jagger

[VanishingPoi]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

My latest favorites are this set:

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.


The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.


They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.


It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

All from Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924, well-known for the books published under the name 'Joseph Conrad.'

www.qotd.org

"In the Heart of Darkness", I know it well. The movie "Apocalypse Now" was modeled after that book.