Here's how it goes, I started so I post a quote. The next person tells us who originally said that quote and then he or she posts a quote and so on until enough people get board and this game disappears into inactivity.

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else."
Just want to make clear I'm not trying to be nasty to any Americans with this, it's just a quote off my quote of the day thing.

Now....easy stuff...


" I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. "

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else."
-Winston Churchill

Ok, who said this to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."

What Colin Powell actually said was:

"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works."

What writer once remarked upon hearing that one of his most severe critics had just killed himself with a single shot to the brain said "He must have been an extraordinary marksman."

Uh, DM I think I answered that quote first XD

I was busy researching the quote and writing my post when you posted.

Ok Jozan whereis your quote?

my quote is back in my original post, i just forgot to actually put quotation marks around it =P

"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."-Rodney Dangerfield

So I'll throw out a new one:

And we who delve in beauty’s lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

From my favorite poem

M.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Interesting poem. I did not know it before.


"Fighting a war to fix somethig works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of the clap."

Not a commentary on current wars, just something I saw that caught my attention.

Norman Mailer

He had alot of kids btw...

My turn!

"taH pagh, taH be?"

General Chang from Star Trek IV Undiscovered Country?

"If a child runs into the room saying "Mummy, mummy! I love Jesus and He loves me! We're all going to Heaven when we die and God is looking over us!", people will smile and praise the child. Nobody would say "Don't be silly. You can't possibly say that because you don't fully understand everything about the religion. How can you know that for sure, when you've not read the Bible in the original Hebrew?!?". But if a child (or teenager, or adult) says "I've had a good think about it, and have come to the conclusion that Jesus is a myth and nothing in Christianity makes much sense. I declare myself to be a freethinking secular humanist.", then they are quite likely to receive the latter response. You could have all the theological training of a hedgehog and still get wild applause if you stand up and say you're a Christian, but it seems that atheists are required to demonstrate more intelligence and Biblical expertise than all the clergymen and theologians that have ever lived before they are allowed to publicly express their doubts."

Adrian Barnett, he died in 2007 I think. God rest his sole.

"I know I'm an acquired taste: I'm anchovies. And not everyone wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go more places."

Tori Amos

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.