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Favourite Historical Quotes
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08-10-2007, 07:48 PM
"A violin is an instrument of torture that produces noise by dragging the hairs of a horse across the guts of a cat."
Ambrose Bierce
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills) Saepe veritas est dura. 
08-10-2007, 08:48 PM
"Je suis venu trop tard dans un monde trop vieux." (Alfred de Musset)
08-10-2007, 09:19 PM
"Cease quoting the law! We carry weapons!"
Pompey Magnus! Once a Roman Great!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours! Titus Flavius Germanus Batavian Coh I Byron Angel 
08-11-2007, 09:02 AM
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in every direction, those bastards won't get away this time!"
-"Chesty" Puller, USMC "Casualties; many. Percentage dead; unknown. Combat efficiency; we are winning." -Col. David M. Shoup, USMC
"There are some who call me... Tim..."
Sic vis pacem, para bellum Exitus acta probat Nemo saltat sobrius Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori Fortes Fortuna Aduvat "The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one! Good odds for any Greek!" 
08-11-2007, 01:05 PM
Famous last words
"We've caught them napping this time boy's". General G.A. Custer. "I think I am becoming a god". Vespasian. Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock. "..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
08-11-2007, 01:40 PM
There is always another rung on the ladder of stupid. Stop reaching for it.
By me. Not a historical figure, but I'd like to be. 
08-11-2007, 04:30 PM
"Hell ain't a bad place if you train there."
Jens Pulver - Coach, The Ultimate Fighter season 5 (not quite an historical figure, but a poignant remark none-the-less.)
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Magnus/Matt Du Courage Viens La Verité Legion: TBD 
08-13-2007, 05:47 AM
....some more from that lovable alcoholic, Winston Churchill :-
Definition of a politician: "He is asked to stand, he wants to sit" ( in the house)"and he is expected to lie." "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. " "For my part, I consider it will be much better for all parties to leave the past to History, especially as I intend to write that history myself." "All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." "When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast." :lol: :lol: :lol:
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country) "No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton Paul McDonnell-Staff
08-13-2007, 06:00 AM
And two from a very harsh military leader, the Prussian King Frederick the Great:
"Rogues! Do you want to live forever ?" ..and... "By push of bayonets, no firing 'til you see the whites of their eyes !"
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country) "No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton Paul McDonnell-Staff
08-13-2007, 01:07 PM
Two of my own:
"When you don't know what you're doing, it isn't the time for doing!" "The second time the mule kicks you ain't the mule's fault." And of course, my signature line below: "Often, the truth is harsh."
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills) Saepe veritas est dura.
08-13-2007, 02:33 PM
"Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts"
- General George Patton Jr, "Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!" - General George S. Patton, Jr
"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
a.k.a. Paul M.
08-13-2007, 04:36 PM
Almost forgot: "Eih bennek, eih blavek". Of course, fiction, but I like to quote it. :wink:
08-13-2007, 06:58 PM
My personal favourite in regards to just about everything.
"Hope for the best, plan for the worst." Don't you who said it first, but I like him.  Cheers, Wim /Cordvs CORBVLO
08-13-2007, 08:34 PM
Yes, it's a fav of mine too!
Along the lines of "Aim for the stars", at least if you fail to reach them, you will still have reached a higher point that if you aimed lower in the first place!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours! Titus Flavius Germanus Batavian Coh I Byron Angel
08-13-2007, 09:09 PM
Almost forgot: this one is my absolute favorite from the twentieth century - Martin Luther King's speech "I Have a Dream", which is just perfect, especially the joke "we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt" is great, whereas "we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream" would not be out of place in the Biblical book of Isaiah. Ironically, it's the "I Have A Dream" part that I now feel is over the top. Still, a brilliant speech containing some truly great lines.
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