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Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 2:03:21 AM   
Missouri_Rebel


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Status: offline 		Since the place is so quiet why not have a quote thread? There are many great ones throughout history. Let's keep it to people no longer living in an attempt to stay civil.

I'll go first.



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― Mark Twain

I'm a huge fan of Twains work and awesome quotes especially the coarse ones.

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 2:47:36 AM   
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Napoleon.

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 3:15:48 AM   
Missouri_Rebel


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'Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.'


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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 3:55:04 AM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 4:53:39 AM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 5:10:27 AM   
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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

I'm trying to think, but nothing's happening ! [Curly]


Every time you think you weaken the nation. (Moe.)



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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 5:35:00 AM   
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– Mark Twain

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 6:44:42 AM   
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Queen Elizabeth I 1588 addressing the troops at Tilbury ahead of the expected Spanish invasion.

Although I liked the Blackadder version more

"I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and the stomach of a concrete elephant!"

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 7:08:21 AM   
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Marshal of the Empire François Joseph Lefebvre

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 10:24:55 AM   
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Any two western nations combined can defeat Germany.

Providing one of them is England.

{And one of them isn't France}

Admiral Boaty McBoatface RN.
1894. Battle of Dogging Layby

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 10:51:05 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Aurelian

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

I'm trying to think, but nothing's happening ! [Curly]


Every time you think you weaken the nation. (Moe.)






Larry: Napoleon's dead.

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 11:26:03 AM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 3:43:26 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 3:56:49 PM   
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"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample, it had an olive in it."


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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 6:24:21 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 6:38:06 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 9:37:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Napoleon "The Russians have done us great harm."

Soult "And we them, our bullets were not made of cotton." Battle of Eylau

Ney "What a massacre! And without results." The day after.





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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 9:50:03 PM   
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/funniest-puns-in-history/


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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 11:36:24 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 11:41:18 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/10/2016 11:51:28 PM   
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Bill Mauldin and his cartoons published in the Stars and Stripes during the Second World War have always been a favorite of mine.

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 2:15:59 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Zorch

Enough of this one-at-a-time stuff...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/funny-jokes/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/funniest-puns-in-history/





'Any trained chimp can pound out a link.'

-Me. Just now.

Some pretty funny ones.

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 2:20:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		'A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.'

― Mark Twain

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 2:17:31 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 3:25:24 PM   
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"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

General George S. Patton

There are variations of that saying. Did he repeat it several times with some different words? Or has his original phrase been corrupted over time?

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 3:48:28 PM   
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Attachment (1)

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 5:17:34 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 9:11:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		It does seem to have evolved or changed over time, or where the quote comes from. For here's another version of it; one that I've heard a number of times as well.

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
General George S. Patton

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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 9:35:28 PM   
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RE: Quotes from historical figures - 5/11/2016 11:57:50 PM   
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"He that has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time." - Anacreon


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