What are some of your favorite Quotes

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by LawDawg

"I didn't surrender either. My horse surrendered. Now they have him pulling a wagon some place in Kansas." Chief Lone Wattie, The Outlaw Josey Wales

Poor horse! I think Sheridan's saying about Texas and Hell applies equally well to Kansas.

Given the topic, I guess I should quote the saying:

"If i owned both Texas and hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." General Phillip Sheridan

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by LawDawg

"I didn't surrender either. My horse surrendered. Now they have him pulling a wagon some place in Kansas." Chief Lone Wattie, The Outlaw Josey Wales

Written by this guy.

[Ike Bana]

"I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread."

E.K. Hornbeck, "Inherit The Wind."

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

"I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread."

E.K. Hornbeck, "Inherit The Wind."

a.k.a. H.L. Mencken, the Bard of Baltimore

[Pio1980]

Re, Mencken,
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intellegence of the American public."

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[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Boreas

a.k.a. H.L. Mencken, the Bard of Baltimore

I've searched a lot to see if that script comment might actually have come from Menken, but it doesn't appear so.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I've searched a lot to see if that script comment might actually have come from Menken, but it doesn't appear so.

No, it was Mencken. It's variously written as "intelligence" or "taste" but Pio's attribution is correct.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=...+we&gws_rd=ssl

[bobabode]

The character HK Hornbeck was based on Mencken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherit_the_Wind_(play)

[bobabode]

Speaking of HL Mencken.

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for - as for me, I rejoice that I'm not a Republican"

[merrylander]

From the same gentleman;

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.