Favorite Quote Thread

[Bonnie]

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

'My wife took everything but my fillings.' ~ Ari Gold

“It was then that I realized the mask I was wearing was designed to keep out bees, not ants!”
-I don’t remember and can’t find the source for this one, just that it was on a nature show.

"If everything is going well, you forgot something."
– Old Naval Aviation truism.

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next."
--Gilda Radner

Originally Posted by Bonnie

"When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time." - Maya Angelou

That's one of my favorites too Bonnie!

" When you lose, say little...When you
win, say less." -Matt Hughes

[flo]

Originally Posted by Play The Man

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill
May 13, 1940

That part of his speech always gives me goosebumps.

[Play The Man]

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Ronald Reagan

[Play The Man]

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

C.S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man




“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts”

C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters

[Irish Pride]

"When you love someone you got to be prepared to hate too. And sometimes the hate just wins out. But you listen to me, Willa. You might have a real good reason to hate somebody, but you still got to let that hate go. 'Cause if you don't it'll just tear you apart your whole life. And even worse that that, it won't leave no room for any love to get back in."

Quote from First Family by David Baldacci