Topic: Favourite quotes (Read 10149 times)

wormster · « **Reply #30 on:** October 16, 2008, 08:26:56 »

"I live for this < :-#>" - Vin Diesl in xXx (action movie, not the other type)

crazymac · « **Reply #31 on:** October 16, 2008, 10:24:44 »

Oh < :-#>, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dunno if its really one, but I bet a Bomb Disposal bod has said it at some point :doh:

Skibum346 · « **Reply #32 on:** October 16, 2008, 12:14:20 »

Quote from: crazymac on October 16, 2008, 10:24:44

Oh < :-#>, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dunno if its really one, but I bet a Bomb Disposal bod has said it at some point :doh:

Mate at cadets has on the back of a t-shirt worn under his "95's" (uniform)...

"Bomb Disposal Technician - If you see me running... keep up!"

wormster · « **Reply #33 on:** October 16, 2008, 12:25:32 »

As printed on the back of several of my t-shirts:

"You die - we split your kit!"

A quote to live by - I don't wanna die underground!

V8MoneyPit · « **Reply #34 on:** October 16, 2008, 14:06:47 »

Quote from: merlin617 on October 16, 2008, 07:05:03

"I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits... It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge."
Adolf Hitler - 14th October 1933 :shock:

I think you could quote just about anyone in politics throughout history and they later went totally against what they said. But maybe with not quite such an horrific result as that particlar one!

Lord Shagg-Pyle · « **Reply #35 on:** October 17, 2008, 20:41:11 »

I have numerous favourites:

1) "Work is the curse of the drinking classes": Oscar Wilde

2) "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist........": General John Sedgewick at the the battle of Spotsylvania, American Civil War, after being warned about the abilities of Confederate snipers, and ignoring advice to keep down.

3) "However much you polish a turd, at the end of the day it is still a turd". Anon, but used frequently when politicians try to gloss over a bad event, or when senior Police officers come up with a brand new time saving idea. :roll:

4) "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Extract from speech by Churchill, 20 August 1940

As true today as it was then. The 'Few' today are all the Armed Forces.

Garin · « **Reply #36 on:** October 17, 2008, 22:42:33 »

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone

beast5680 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 17, 2008, 23:35:46 »

" HaHa" Nelson Muntz-The Simpsons

beast5680 · « **Reply #38 on:** October 17, 2008, 23:37:04 »

"How do i look" says the wife
"well you put lipstick on a pig its still a pig" said i shortly before recieving a thick ear :lol:

Range Rover Blues · « **Reply #39 on:** October 18, 2008, 00:23:38 »

"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men"

Winston Spencer Churchill.

wormster · « **Reply #40 on:** October 18, 2008, 08:10:24 »

"I quit, here's a month's notice in writing!" - wormster to his boss on Monday morning.

V8MoneyPit · « **Reply #41 on:** October 18, 2008, 09:32:19 »

Here's one for you to ponder from Martin Luther King......

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. "

My question is....
Has the country he refers to changed in this respect? I think not.

littlepow · « **Reply #42 on:** October 18, 2008, 19:10:43 »

Quote from: merlin617 on October 16, 2008, 06:56:29

Remember, when we pull the pin, Mr grenade is no longer our friend! :shock:

Not sure about the source, but sound advice

It's from an American infantry training book. :roll:

"point this side towards enermy"

written on Claymore mines. :-.

Queen_Elizabeth_II · « **Reply #43 on:** October 18, 2008, 19:36:55 »

God Save the Queen (More of a song than a quote)!

auf_wiedersehen_pet · « **Reply #44 on:** October 18, 2008, 19:40:10 »

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde.

Range Rover Blues · « **Reply #45 on:** October 18, 2008, 19:57:42 »

Quote from: Thrasher on October 15, 2008, 09:11:07

Woman on Street:   Sir, you are drunk; very, very drunk.
Winston Churchill:   Madame, you are ugly; very, very ugly.
         I shall be sober in the morning.

Quote from: carbore on October 15, 2008, 09:34:36

Churchill again

woman "if you were my husband id put poison in your tea"
Churchill "If you were my wife id drink it"

Both quotes are of conversations in public between WS Churchill and Lady Astor, (Nancy Astor IIRC) an American and an fellow MP.

There are others......

Hard to believa man with such a quick wit suffered from very deep depression :-k

pux · « **Reply #46 on:** October 18, 2008, 19:58:47 »

Another from a yank infantry manual "when pin is pulled mr grenade is not your friend"

datalas · « **Reply #47 on:** October 18, 2008, 20:08:54 »

Quote from: auf_wiedersehen_pet on October 18, 2008, 19:40:10

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde.

That line being in a pretenders song I was working and not entirely listening when it was on... I swear I misheard it as "we are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking for the stairs" presumably a more useful interpretation for the practically minded.

gtomo2 · « **Reply #48 on:** October 18, 2008, 20:12:17 »

smoke me a kipper i will be back for brackfast.

the easy route is always mined.

Your weapon is built by the lowest bidder.

If at first you don't succedd sky diving is not for you.

diggerdog36 · « **Reply #49 on:** October 18, 2008, 20:20:38 »

Unknown wicket keeper: Freddy, Why are you so fat??

Freddy Flintoff: Because every time I **** your missus she gives me a biscuit!!!!

Sharpshooter · « **Reply #50 on:** October 18, 2008, 20:28:05 »

Rather like,

Sometimes the Pigeon, Sometimes the statue.

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning,

And as im typing im watching Ace Venturer. When he leaves the bathroom soaking wet and says "do NOT go in there....... WHOAAAAAAA..........." Has me in stiches every time.

littlepow · « **Reply #51 on:** October 19, 2008, 11:23:35 »

All men are equel, just some are more equel than others.

How am I suppose to soar with eagles when I work with turkeys. Taken from various sources within the RAF.

auf_wiedersehen_pet · « **Reply #52 on:** October 19, 2008, 13:54:11 »

Quote from: datalas on October 18, 2008, 20:08:54

Quote from: auf_wiedersehen_pet on October 18, 2008, 19:40:10
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde.

That line being in a pretenders song I was working and not entirely listening when it was on... I swear I misheard it as "we are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking for the stairs" presumably a more useful interpretation for the practically minded.

Just Googled it....

Quote

We are all of us in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars

from Message of Love by The Pretenders.

Not as funny as looking for the stairs though.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Xtremeteam · « **Reply #53 on:** October 19, 2008, 14:42:18 »

We're here for a good time, Not a long time

If in doubt, Flat out

Colin Mcrae 1968-2008

Maximum attack- Ari vatenen IIRC

wormster · « **Reply #54 on:** October 19, 2008, 16:06:55 »

"Any closer, and I'll be in back of you" - Graucho Marx

Bishops Finger · « **Reply #55 on:** October 19, 2008, 18:58:45 »

The entire script of Monty Python and the Life of Brian....

Oh and The entire script of Predator.. :lol:

merlin617 · « **Reply #56 on:** October 19, 2008, 20:54:02 »

If you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined
Old RAF saying.

It's not a sin to be born in the gutter. But it is a terrible sin to want to stay there.
Sgt Harper in the tv series Sharpe.

Range Rover Blues · « **Reply #57 on:** October 19, 2008, 21:27:50 »

Quote from: gtomo2 on October 18, 2008, 20:12:17

Your weapon is built by the lowest bidder.

Puts me in mind of one of NASAs finest (don't recal which one) when interviewed about becoming an astonaut. "when you reach the end of the countdown and realise you are sitting on top of 1 million tons of fuel in a rocket built by the lowest bidder"

Genious

carbore · « **Reply #58 on:** October 20, 2008, 11:01:40 »

Id never join a (mud) club that would have me as a member. (Groucho Marks)

Never loose faith in the colour of the sky (Min Sauce cartoon in MBUK)

There is a mine field near here, most of them are inert some of them are.....um.......er..... ert. (some american thing like the a-team/mcguyver etc)

wormster · « **Reply #59 on:** October 20, 2008, 11:26:21 »

Boss: "Are you going to tell me where you were on Friday?"

Me: "NO!"

Boss: "Are you going to tell me what you intend to do?"

Me: "Gimme a piece of paper and I'll give you Immediate Resignation NOW!"

Me: "Ok that's done I'll get me coat and GO!"

Boss: "Well I hope it all works out for you"

Me: "Uh Huh!" whilst thinking to mesel: It will now I've left this *************ole of a job.

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