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"All the world's a stage,and all the men and women merely players:they have their exits and their entrances;and one man in his time plays many parts: his acts being seven ages..."
Give yourself a smiley of you can guess who this is from
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William Shakespeare, from ' As You Like It ' ...... i think.....
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"All the world's a stage,and all the men and women merely players:they have their exits and their entrances;and one man in his time plays many parts: his acts being seven ages..."
Give yourself a smiley of you can guess who this is from
You don't stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing.
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"And this, too, shall pass away."
Surely, one of the knowledgeable people of these boards knows of this little quote and from whence it supposedly came?
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"G'Quan wrote: 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
- G'Kar, Babylon 5
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
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http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
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WaterTiger
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Revenge is a dish best served cold . :2gun:
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"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! They're coming to surrender or be burned in their tanks."
-- Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Imformation Minister
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"All the world's a stage,and all the men and women merely players:they have their exits and their entrances;and one man in his time plays many parts: his acts being seven ages..."
Give yourself a smiley of you can guess who this is from
"Life is a bitch. And then you die. And they they throw dirt in your face. And then the worms eat you. Just be happy that it happens in that order." --Soloman Short
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When you run with the big dogs you better learn to piss high on the hydrant. Because I am the biggest dog here and if you get on my bad side your going to get wet.
First Sergeant John Fishchetti
PS. It was his standard if you get drunk and make me get you out of jail you will pay speach.
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President Calvin Coolidge had a reputation of being a somewhat somber personality. There was a story of a woman who came up to him at a party and said she had bet her friend that she could get him to say more than two words. Replied Coolidge, "You lose."
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What me? worry?
Alfred E. Newman :)
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"They certainly give strange names to diseases..."
-plato
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People who live in glass houses shouldnt walk around naked, especially if they are fat and ugly.
I dont remember where I heard that one, but I thought it was funny.
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"It has been said that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky
"D&D teachs all the important lessons in life - the low blow, the gang up, the backstab, the cheapshot, the doublecross." - Gerry Marsischky (a buddy in my college days D&D playgroup)
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I forget who said it, but:
"We all come into this life the same way; naked, screaming and bloody. But, if you live your life right, it doesn't have to end there!"
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"And this, too, shall pass away."
Surely, one of the knowledgeable people of these boards knows of this little quote and from whence it supposedly came?
Paul's letter to the Corinthians. (The ones who make the nice leather) Although I believe it would be a paraphrase if the case. Otherwise I believe Abraham Lincoln told a story of an achient King who had that inscribed somewhere important.
I also know there is a poem of that title, "L name" Smith.
GE-Raven
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My favorite work related quotes (authors unknown):
"I pretend to work. They pretend to pay me"
"Everyone brings joy to this office. Some when they enter and others when they leave"
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Fred Mitchell looked back on his hard life (in his 80s in 1967) and was commenting on how rough his life had been. All work, no playing, The he paused for a moment and said the following,
"The singing. There was such a lot of singing in the villages then, and this was my pleasure. Boys sang in the fields, and at night we all met at the Forge and sang. The chapels were full of singing. When the first war came, it was singing, singing all the time. So I lie; I have had pleasure. I have had singing"
This was paraphrased by Ronald Blythe who visited the English village of Akenfield and became the following lyrics to the Song "I Have Had Singing" by Steven Sametz
The singing,
There was so much singing then,
And this was my pleasure too.
We all sang,
The boys in the fields;
The chappels were full of singing,
Always singing.
Here I lie;
I have had pleasure enough,
I have had singing.
Not really a quote, but it is something that makes mre read it over and over and over again. It is just beautiful to behold.
GE-Raven
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It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away.
bono
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
Issac Asimov :notworthy:
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." General Sedgewick,1864 http://www.worldofquotes.com/index.php
"No one ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making that other poor dumb bastard die for his country." George C. Scott as Patton
Does anyone know if Patton actually said that or not?
Oh yeah and my favorites.
"All it takes is ONE BAD DAY to reduce the sanest man alive to utter lunacy." and my signature.
Both can be accredited to my alter ego.
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Does anyone know if Patton actually said that or not?
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Yes, did -- and worse. That is PG-12 Patton.
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WT
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." General Sedgewick,1864.
Heh, heh, heh... being a Reb, that's one of my favorite quotes from the war.
Here's one I need to listen to a bit more:
"I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it." - Gen.Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." General Sedgewick,1864.
Heh, heh, heh... being a Reb, that's one of my favorite quotes from the war.
Here's one I need to listen to a bit more:
"I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it." - Gen.Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
While we're on the Civil War...
"Mix 'em up--I'm tired of States' Rights." --Union General George H. Thomas in reponse to a chaplain's inquiry if he wanted the dead buried by state following the Battle of Franklin (?)
"That was ungenerous. I'll have your guns for that!" --Union General Philip Sheridan after he was shot at by Confederate gunners while raising his mug in a toast.
"The Army of the Potomac has a head." --Confederate General Robert E. Lee following the Battle of the Wilderness
"Bobby Lee this, Bobby Lee that! I'm sick to death hearing about Bobby Lee! You think he would do a somersault and land in our Rear! Stop thinking about what he will do to you and start thinking about what you will do to him! Bring some guns up here!" --Union General Ulysses S. Grant chiding the staff of the Army of the Potomac during the Battle of the Wilderness
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"And this, too, shall pass away."
Surely, one of the knowledgeable people of these boards knows of this little quote and from whence it supposedly came?
Paul's letter to the Corinthians. (The ones who make the nice leather) Although I believe it would be a paraphrase if the case. Otherwise I believe Abraham Lincoln told a story of an achient King who had that inscribed somewhere important.
I also know there is a poem of that title, "L name" Smith.
GE-Raven
The quote was from Lincoln giving a speech to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. The exact quote:
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride; how consoling in the depths of affliction! "And this, too, shall pass away." And yet, let us hope, it is not quite true. Let us hope, rather, that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us, and the intellectual and moral worlds within us, we shall secure an individual, social, and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away. "
Undoubtably, you will find "come to pass", "came to pass", "shall/have come/came to pass" and variations of such several thousands times in the Bible, though the most similar off the top of my head ("top of my head" in this came being synonymous to "quick google search") is 2 Peter 3:10-11.
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Bobby Lee this, Bobby Lee that! I'm sick to death hearing about Bobby Lee! You think he would do a somersault and land in our Rear!
I would not rule this out. We are talking about the General Robert E. Lee, after all.
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Bobby Lee this, Bobby Lee that! I'm sick to death hearing about Bobby Lee! You think he would do a somersault and land in our Rear!
I would not rule this out. We are talking about the General Robert E. Lee, after all.
And at The Wilderness he very nearly did it!
Grant had to do this in order to break to almost mystical hold that Lee had over the officers of the Army of the Potomac.
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Bobby Lee this, Bobby Lee that! I'm sick to death hearing about Bobby Lee! You think he would do a somersault and land in our Rear!
I would not rule this out. We are talking about the General Robert E. Lee, after all.
And at The Wilderness he very nearly did it!
Grant had to do this in order to break to almost mystical hold that Lee had over the officers of the Army of the Potomac.
Lee was a great General, and he looked even better when you compared him to the sorry sacks of bovine exrement that commanded the Army of the Patomic. THey would do nothing but regroup... knowing if they pressed home an attack they could have eventually crushed the ANV in a few months. For this reason I will always say that Mcclellan was one of the best generals the South had... he always gave Lee and his troops ample time to counter the Union's numerical superiority with manuver and fighting spirit.
Grant beat Lee by weight of numbers in the war of attrition that the South had hoped to avoid all along. They were, dispite differing personal natures which made Lee by far the better man of the two, two generals who knew how to use their resources to their advantage.
Without Grant, the North would have lost the war; without Lee opposing him, the war would never have lasted as long as it did.
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Bobby Lee this, Bobby Lee that! I'm sick to death hearing about Bobby Lee! You think he would do a somersault and land in our Rear!
I would not rule this out. We are talking about the General Robert E. Lee, after all.
And at The Wilderness he very nearly did it!
Grant had to do this in order to break to almost mystical hold that Lee had over the officers of the Army of the Potomac.
Lee was a great General, and he looked even better when you compared him to the sorry sacks of bovine exrement that commanded the Army of the Patomic. THey would do nothing but regroup... knowing if they pressed home an attack they could have eventually crushed the ANV in a few months. For this reason I will always say that Mcclellan was one of the best generals the South had... he always gave Lee and his troops ample time to counter the Union's numerical superiority with manuver and fighting spirit.
Grant beat Lee by weight of numbers in the war of attrition that the South had hoped to avoid all along. They were, dispite differing personal natures which made Lee by far the better man of the two, two generals who knew how to use their resources to their advantage.
Without Grant, the North would have lost the war; without Lee opposing him, the war would never have lasted as long as it did.
And two more quotes:
"I know Lee better than he knows himself. Brave to a fault, but cautious and indecisive." --General George McClellan. He was actually describing himself!
"May God have mercy on General Lee for I will have none." --General Joseph Hooker prior to his defeat by Lee at Chancellorsville.
BTW, isn't Fort McClellan in Alabama? ;D
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sh*t or get off the throne - My Mom
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"STFU!!!!!"
-Dizzy ;D
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BTW, isn't Fort McClellan in Alabama? ;D
Yep- sort of... it's closed down now. A whole brand new MP annex was abandoned 2 years after construction in 1999. Now it belongs to the Guard and we run it as we see fit- and if the A.G. isn't touring anytime soon or the OCS cadets ain't in there, you can even somke in the chow hall.
They gave us one post named after an Alabamian and a Southron- Rucker- and then had to balance that out 'cause you know you can't make it look like you are honoring a Confederate soldier, so they named one after that daft bumbler McClellan to even things out.
BTW- my unit was 'practicing DUI stops' *read as chasing down our drunk troops on the diserted treets* one night during a range drill and me and a ouple of fellows swapped the "Federal Way" street sign on the main street with a cardboard one we maid that said "Confederate Way." We had to put it up the next morning though... Top didn't find it quite as amusing as we did.
Next year we are going to paint "Ft. Joe Weeler" on the sign out front if we can bribe the sentry ;D !