The All New "Great Quotes" Thread!

[Vince]

"And they give you cash, which is just as good as money."

Yogi Berra

 

[Vince]

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

Yogi Berra

 

[JeffShott]

http://litemind.com/best-famous-quotes/

 

[Nick]

Trust you to come up with this Vince!


I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower




Yes, I'm in that mood. :/

 

[Vince]

Do you realize that both Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower believed that the bombing of Hiroshima was immoral?

 

[Nick]

Do you realize that both Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower believed that the bombing of Hiroshima was immoral?

I'm not surprised. It isn't exactly a stretch to think like that. I think most people feel that way IMO.

 

[reigningfish]

I don't know who said it, but...

Don't be to spiritual to be of any earthly use, and don't be too worldly to be of any heavenly use.

 

[Vince]

Ninety percent of putts that fall short don't go in.

Yogi Berra

 

[ProphetMark]

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis

I'm not absolutely sure I agree with that one. Could stopping Adolf Hitler have been achieved without a war?

 

[chestertonrules]

GK Chesterton on Separation of Church and State

"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it." - Autobiography, 1937

 

[Nick]

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis

I'm not absolutely sure I agree with that one. Could stopping Adolf Hitler have been achieved without a war?

I don't necessarily agree with that quote either. Some wars a justified, like WWII, others are not. But I also refer you to this quote:

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

 

[Vince]

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Yogi Berra

 

[ProphetMark]

He who aims at nothing usually achieves it.

No idea who said it though.

 

[handy]

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." GK Chesterton

 

[Vince]

...It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were so many people talking.

Yogi Berra

 

[Nick]

"Word"


--Myself

 

[ProphetMark]

The difference between aspiration and achievement is perspiration.

No idea who said it though.

 

[Vince]

Short catchers are better. They don't have to stand up as far.

Yogi Berra

 

[graceforme]

On the sign of a Methodist church in my neighborhood:

"Practice makes perfect. So be careful what you practice."

 

[Vince]

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Yogi Berra