Favourite Quotes

[Hammer]

I have a few favourite Winston Churchill ones - this one springs to mind

"a modest man, with much to be modest about"

 

[JLT]

I came across this in a book called Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks, but I don't know if it's original with him. It's good advice, especially for my younger friends:

"Don't grow old too quickly, and don't stay young too long."

 

[Rath Darkblade]

“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

I have a few favourite Winston Churchill ones - this one springs to mind

"a modest man, with much to be modest about"

Yes. He was talking about Anthony Eden, IIRC.

 

[Mr Mononoke]

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There is a Confucius quote that is remarkably similar to this.

It is from The Analects.
To Transmit:

I never enlighten anyone who is never driven to frustration by the urge to seek knowledge.
Nor do I illuminate anyone who is never driven to frenzy by the urge to seek knowledge.
When I have pointed out one corner of a square to him, and he cannot make the connection with the other three,
I will not teach him again.

 

[JLT]

When I have pointed out one corner of a square to him, and he cannot make the connection with the other three,
I will not teach him again.

How would he know it's a square, and not a rhomboid with one right angle? This distresses me.

 

[Qvortable]

"Was will das Weib?"

 

[Louanne Learning]

few favourite Winston Churchill ones

... Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of truth and justice:

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altars. As the will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.

Winston Churchill
BBC Radio Broadcast
19 May 1940

 

[Mr Mononoke]

How would he know it's a square, and not a rhomboid with one right angle? This distresses me.

The reference was made on a table.

 

[Selluwud]

Archimedes

“Pie are square”

 

[Rath Darkblade]

... Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of truth and justice:

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altars. As the will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.

Winston Churchill
BBC Radio Broadcast
19 May 1940

Churchill was a past master of stirring folks to action, but he had an impish side too.

After his "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech, when the microphone was switched off, he added “And we shall hit them on the head with beer-bottles, which is all we're really left with."

 

[JLT]

Archimedes

“Pie are square”

But cornbread are round.

 

[Selluwud]

But cornbread are round.

“Any man that eats cornbread can’t be all bad”

Carrol Shelby

 

[Louanne Learning]

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

~ Thomas Edison

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Archimedes

“Pie are square”

But cornbread are round.

And so are rice cakes, but not many people like 'em without something on 'em.

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
- Charlie Chaplin

 

[Selluwud]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

 

[Louanne Learning]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

He also said:

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

 

[DLC]

 

[Rath Darkblade]

“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch