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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill


History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

War, it's what I live for.
Winston Churchill

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. -Vincent Van Gogh

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. -Jim Morrison

You only need two tools in life - WD-40 & Duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the Duct tape.

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

"William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts." and most of the other Fact Sphere quotes, those are the best!

"How the little pigs would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffers"

Heineken?!?! F*ck that sh*t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

-Dennis Hopper as Frank Boothe, from Blue Velvet.

"Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future"

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." A.Einstein

Vasquez: "I know the President made you a promise, but circumstances have changed."

Underwood: "The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances."

"The greatest symbiotic parasite the world's ever known isn't microbial, it's linguistic. Words are what keep civilization, our world, alive. Free the world, not by taking men's lives, but by taking their tongues. Sans Lingua Franca. The world will be torn asunder, and then it shall be free."

"I can feel your anger, it gives you focus. Makes you stronger."

"Yesterday is tomorrow, only backwards." Virgin Prunes

Underwood: "The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."

"When you dim your light, so that someone else can shine, the whole world gets darker."