Quotable Quotes

[Buzzard]

Life is interesting, death is fascinating.

 

[drron]

‘Every game in life is actually played on a 6-inch ground — the space between your two ears.’

Martina Navratilova

 

[Bundy Bear]

If politicians decide to go to war the war doesn’t end when the war is over.

 

[drron]

If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.’

Denis Parsons Burkitt

 

[Major]

 

[Hvr]

If politicians decide to go to war the war doesn’t end when the war is over.

View attachment 264504

An American view,

I Work With Dying Veterans. Here's Why I Don't Automatically Thank Them For Their Service.

“'What’s it like having people thanking you for your service everywhere you go, James?' I asked. 'You might think this is an exaggeration but you asked,' he said. 'It’s an act of violence.'”

www.huffpost.com

And FDR's view on war.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[drron]

‘He aimed for the stars…and hit London.’
Wernher von Braun’s 1977 obituary in The Economist:

 

[Major]

 

[JessicaTam]

NT News editorial extolling the virtues of visiting a pub for a beer:

“No good story ever started with a salad.”

 

[TheRealTMA]

NT News editorial extolling the virtues of visiting a pub for a beer:

“No good story ever started with a salad.”

NT News. The bar is where they keep the crocodiles?

https://www.ntnews.com.au/topics/crocodiles

 

[drron]

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell.

 

[drron]

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. "

Milton Berle.

 

[Major]

 

[TheRealTMA]

View attachment 273023

That's if you live naked in the forest/mountains and can still see them I assume?

 

[JohnM]

Putin trained all his life to lead a 20th century superpower.
Zelensky trained all his life to communicate in the 21st century.
In the era of communication, Zelensky wins.

- Tomas Pueyo, Uncharted Territories

 

[drron]

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
Bertrand Russell

 

[Quickstatus]

The road to Auschwitz is paved with indifference
Not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite, they just had to be apathetic......

SBC

 

[drron]

"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
Winston Churchill

 

[Bundy Bear]

 

[drron]

"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." Maimonides