Do any of you know any quotes or quips from people in history?

I’ll start..Daniel Boone was once queried by some admirers as to whether he had ever been lost in the wilderness. He responded that, “I can’t rightly say as I was ever lost, but I did get a mite bewildered once for a couple of weeks”.

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Another one I like was a blunt assessment of Dwight Eisenhower by Harry Truman. He wrote in his memoirs that: “I think the key to Ikes appeal was that marvelous smile. But those of us who knew him realized that he was a bitter, angry and unhappy man”.

He wasn’t famous but on a caving trip in Mexico as we were sliding down a rock face to land on a ledge that was about three feet wide and had about a 400’ drop on the other side a friend of mine said “There’s gonna be pinch marks on this rock where my ass is grabbin’!” I always thought that was both funny and rather profound.

Topically, I like this quote:

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man”. General Patton

I think about this whenever I hear Trump go on about his goddam wall.

“Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.” – Dennis IV, king of england

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

Nelson Mandela 20 April 1964

A man never stood so tall as when he reaches to help a child. Abe L

Bessie Braddock MP: “Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk.”

Churchill: “Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow
I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.”

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” Leonardo da Vinci

When the Germans sent a surrender ultimatum to US Army Gen. Anthony McAuliffe during the siege of Bastogne, France during the Battle of the Bulge, Dec. 1944, his reply was “Nuts!”

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

to plunder, to butcher, to steal—these things they misname empire. And where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Tacitus

Sounds familiar somehow….