Favourite Quotes

[JLT]

And LBJ's. And president of the World Bank and the Ford Motor Company. Fascinating but controversial historical figure. He's been condemned and rehabilitated several times as the modern contextual lens evaluating the Vietnam era (or any era) changes with age.

For a good look at it, there's a documentary called The Fog of War, worth checking out.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Another quote on war, attributed to Albert Einstein:

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

 

[Homer Potvin]

For a good look at it, there's a documentary called The Fog of War, worth checking out.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Another quote on war, attributed to Albert Einstein:

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

That's where I got the quote from. I was watching it last night. There's a zillion more where that came from.

 

[Louanne Learning]

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”

― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

 

[Rath Darkblade]

"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."
--Finley Peter Dunne

 

[GrahamLewis]

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." Thoreau

 

[JLT]

"My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everybody drinks water."
--Mark Twain