Famous Quotes or Speeches

David Lee's Hair · Post by **David Lee's Hair** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:28 pm

Ok, it's friday and I'm bored so I was looking to change my signature to a famous quote and it got me thinking (The cogs are still slowly turning now!!) what's the most rousing speech or quote in your opinion.

One of my best mates is a History teacher at MGS, and on his ipod as a teaching aid (how things have changed) he has several speeches from history, so when you're getting pished at his if the ipods on shuffle songs you tend to get the odd speech thrown in! It adds some class to his terrible taste in music!! But the one that always gets me is Winston Churchill from the 13th May 1940 with his "Blood Toil Tears and Sweat". It really makes the hairs on my neck stand, proper rousing stuff

[i]I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the 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: 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. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire; no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, 'Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength.'
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Maybe a wasted thread but what are yours??

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:34 pm

"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into"

Oliver Hardy, 1892-1957

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:35 pm

I was planning on this quote for my next signature but you can have it if you want:

Do not be grateful, be great.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:41 pm

"If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton

mofgimmers · Post by **mofgimmers** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:01 pm

"I did my best" Fabian De Freitas

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:04 pm

" I put my studs in the keeper's knee, me, Super john McGinley" John McGinley

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:10 pm

I'm a lifelong West Ham fan and I'm saddened to leave my boy hood club.

OR

I'm a lifelong Leeds United fan and I'm saddened to leave my boy hood club.

Rio Ferdinand.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:17 pm

David Lee's Hair wrote:Ok, it's friday and I'm bored so I was looking to change my signature to a famous quote and it got me thinking (The cogs are still slowly turning now!!) what's the most rousing speech or quote in your opinion.

One of my best mates is a History teacher at MGS, and on his ipod as a teaching aid (how things have changed) he has several speeches from history, so when you're getting pished at his if the ipods on shuffle songs you tend to get the odd speech thrown in! It adds some class to his terrible taste in music!! But the one that always gets me is Winston Churchill from the 13th May 1940 with his "Blood Toil Tears and Sweat". It really makes the hairs on my neck stand, proper rousing stuff

[i]I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the 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: 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. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire; no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, 'Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength.'
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Maybe a wasted thread but what are yours??

I'd like to see you fit that lot in your signature.

David Lee's Hair · Post by **David Lee's Hair** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:20 pm

I got some of it in

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:20 pm

Up from earth's centre, through the seventh gate,
I rose and on the throne of Saturn sate.
And many knots untangled by the road,
But not the knot of human death and fate.

The peerless Omar Khayyam.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:37 pm

The early worm... gets eaten
The second mouse gets the cheese... so stay in bed a bit longer (anon)

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:41 pm

A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday
- Thomas Russell Ybarra

knobpolisher · Post by **knobpolisher** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:43 pm

" What spend all my life raising children to feed bloody Lions - not me"

Mrs Ramsbottom.

boltonben · Post by **boltonben** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:46 pm

"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again"

George Walker Bush

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:49 pm

"Calm down Alf, Before you have a culinary tombonist". Audrey Bradshaw

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:18 pm

boltonben wrote:
"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again"
George Walker Bush

He also said: Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:26 pm

I often wonder what Bush has actually come out with, and how much of it just gets made up for a laugh and attributed to him to make him sound that bit thicker. For instance, I find it difficult to believe that the President of America could possibly have come out with "One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards." Or "If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate."

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army · Post by **Soldier_Of_The_White_Army** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:33 pm

I never touched him!! - Everyone who plays against Stephan Gerrard.

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:40 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:I often wonder what Bush has actually come out with, and how much of it just gets made up for a laugh and attributed to him to make him sound that bit thicker. For instance, I find it difficult to believe that the President of America could possibly have come out with "One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards." Or "If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate."

The Guardian has run a quiz on this very issue - which are genuine Bushisms. Try it

Daxter · Post by **Daxter** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:48 pm

I like this saying.

'The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their ability becomes to affect us.'

And another one...

'Luck is for Losers'