Your favorite quotes

[macwilkin]

Apparently a quote of a General who's just inspected some soldiers (IIRC Canadian or Aussies):

"I have no idea what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they scare me!"

I always thought that was from the Duke of Wellington.

T.

[piperdbh]

From Fred Chappell's I Am One of You Forever:
"Let me tell you something, Jess. They don't nobody like a smart-mouth kid."

Louis Armstrong:
"All music is folk music. I ain't never seen no horse sing no song."

Duke Ellington:
"There's two kinds of music: good music and bad music."

[Piper]

Like most folks, I have too many favorite quotes to list. A couple do come to mind though (must be the time of year)
"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
"In a mature society, 'Civil Servant' is the semantic equivalent of 'Civil Master'."
Both quotes attributable to R.A. Heinlein's character "Lazarus Long"

[sathor]

From one of my favorite movies (and I almost doubt anybody beyond the MI rabble would reconize these.. not saying the movie though...)

"And Remnar? Well, he turned out pretty much the way you'd expect for somebody goes by the name of Remnar. "


"A man who can't look another man in the hairy eyeball and tell him he's heavy on the sap ain't much of a man. "


I miss Michigan.

[GDub]

"Who you're with is where you're at."

"You blow who you is." --Louis Armstrong

"If you're not big, you'd better be clever." --a Gaelic saying

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." --Oscar Wilde

"Never give up and never face the facts." --Ruth Gordon

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!" --Jonathan Winters

"Cogito eggo sum" - (I think, therefore, I am a waffle)

[timseh]

Ignorance is correctable. Stupidity is for life.
Me

[Larry124]

"Capture Humanity over Perfection
…Now Frank [Sinatra] sometimes sang out of tune and he did things which he maybe he could have improved. But though he sang out of tune he sounded great; some people sing in tune and sound bloody awful. I like a little mistake, I like a bit of humanity and you got that with the Beatles. Ringo never played to a quartz controlled beat ever in his life."
-- Sir George Martin as told to Paul Williams in Music Week Magazine July 22, 2008.

[M_Beorn]

Often quoted by myself to myself when diving down the highway, but tending to get me into trouble:

Lead, Follow, or get the Hell out of the way!

I don't know who to attibute it to, but I like it!

[Jordan]

This remindes me of a good quote which i saw on a photo of the sign from at the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Okinawa

"Though i fly through the valley of death,I shall fear no evil. For i am at 80'000 feet and still Climbing"

[Big Mikey]

I don't mean to make light of this thread but these are quotes I have never forgotten.

"Which way did they go George? Which way did they go?"

"Welcome to Sherwood."

"Another Guinness sir?"