Great Quotations

[it's-me-isn't-it]

You have to know the answer to this question! If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
Tyler Durden Fight Club 1999

 

[Tin basher]

Quote from a old stacker snec to a young Cpl Tinbasher at sunny Scampton many years ago whilst have an argument with the guy.

"Always remember son your here to defend a democracy not take part in one" followed by "Now you just shut the feck up"

An old plumber WO I once had the grave misfortune to upset big time had this on his office wall for all to see "When I want your opinion I'll give it to you"

 

[budgie]

If you don't come back smelling of sausage, you ain't getting on that plane!

Mover SNCO to a drunken Liney.

 

[Ex-Bay]

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?' -
Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

[techie_tubby]

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril

Winston Churchill

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

They came for the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so I was silent.
Then they came for the editors of the newspapers and the radio commentators, and I was not in mass communications, so I was silent.
Then they came for the professors in the universities. I was not a professor, so I did not speak up.
Finally, they came for me, and there was no one left to speak.

Dietrich Bonhoefer - Hanged by Nazi's 1945

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Battle of Britain - Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. - Churchill

The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
From a post-war debriefing of a German General

If you can keep your head, while all around you are losing theirs - then you probably dont have a good grip of the situation!

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers.
I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late.
I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper - Gen. Robert E. Lee

There are those who believe that men in uniform are somehow associated with starting wars.
That's like saying policemen cause crime. ... Keeping the peace is the most important problem we face.
I believe that because young men...are willing to put on the uniform and
endure the rigors of military life, peace is more secure. - Ronald Reagan

He Shoots. He scores - heard over PRR Iraq 2004

 

[AirshowGuy1918]

'A pilot lives in a world of perfection, or not at all'

'A good landing is one you can walk away from,a great landing is one which the plane can be used again'

 

[John Lloyd]

Nagasaki 1945;

"what the fu......."

 

[Rikster]

"Sweat saves blood"


Generalfeldmarschal Erwin Rommel

"Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide."
Generalfeldmarschal Erwin Rommel

 

[pjvr99]

There are 3 kinds of people in the world:

Those who make things happen;

Those who watch things happen;

and those who wonder what happened

 

[Ex-Bay]

"Sweat saves blood"


Generalfeldmarschal Erwin Rommel

"Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide."
Generalfeldmarschal Erwin Rommel

Off Topic The first one should be engraved on a soldier's kit.

 

[gemarriott]

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?' -
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A necroposting masterpiece.

What the fcuk and more to the point why the fcuk post a meaniningless non-quote from a long dead General in the Union army from the American civil war dating back to at least Victorian times on a long dead thread on a RAF related website? When the RAF was formed after Oliver Wendell Homes had long trod the Yellow Brick Road into oblivion!

 

[Rikster]

A necroposting masterpiece.

What the fcuk and more to the point why the fcuk post a meaniningless non-quote from a long dead General in the Union army from the American civil war dating back to at least Victorian times on a long dead thread on a RAF related website? When the RAF was formed after Oliver Wendell Homes had long trod the Yellow Brick Road into oblivion!

good idea, lets just ban quotes from history, I mean what the fcuk do they teach us anyway?DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[PingDit]

Compliments of Skygod.com:

Women will never be as successful in aviation as men. They have not the right kind of nerve.​

— Maurice Hewlet, the first English lady to solo an aeroplane.

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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

— Benny Hill

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My definition of an optimist has to be the Luftwaffe F-104 pilot who gave up smoking!

— John Wiley

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WHY I WANT TO BE A PILOT​

When I grow up I want to be a pilot because it's a fun job and easy to do. That's why there are so many pilots flying around these days.
Pilots don't need much school. They just have to learn to read numbers so they can read their instruments.
I guess they should be able to read a road map, too.
Pilots should be brave to they won't get scared if it's foggy and they can't see, or if a wing or motor falls off.
Pilots have to have good eyes to see through the clouds, and they can't be afraid of thunder or lightning because they are much closer to them than we are.
The salary pilots make is another thing I like. They make more money than they know what to do with. This is because most people think that flying a plane is dangerous, except pilots don't because they know how easy it is.
I hope I don't get airsick because I get carsick and if I get airsick, I couldn't be a pilot and then I would have to go to work.

— purported to have been written by a fifth grade student at Jefferson School, Beaufort, SC. It was first published in the South Carolina Aviation News.​

 

[Scaley brat]

It's just a ride - Bill Hicks

fcuk off you cnut ! - gem DT_Xtremez_31:
Or THIS classic from Gem

you're safe if they're in salmon but buggered if they're in pinkDT_Xtremez_14:

ABsolutely priceless...... DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[Ghandi's Flip-Flop]

Not war related but true never the less

"Take a starving dog and make it prosperous and it will never bite you, there in lies the difference between a dog and a man"

"I knew everything when I was 20, but I knew nothing when I was 25"

"An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war"

All attributed to Mark Twain as far as i'm aware

 

[Kryten]

"That was an important speech sir, and it needed to be made, but might I suggest that from this moment the rest of the discourse is conducted by those with brains larger than a grape"

KrytenDT_Xtremez_28:

 

[Combat Womble]

Laws are silent in time of war - Cirero 106 BC (ish) [guantanamo bay, Israel/Arab, Vietnam, WW2, etc etc]

There never was a good war or a bad peace - Ben Franklin 1783

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. - Kissinger 1969 [Vietnam, Somilia, Afghanistain, Iraq, Congo, Uganda, Turkey (Kurds), Chechenia, etc etc]

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone whose dead - Josepth Heller, Catch 22

 

[Rigga]

People can be divided into two classes:
Those who classify people and those who don't. (Rimmer, A)

The French don't even have a word for Entrepreneur (apologies for the spelling) (Bush, George W)

When we study our History we find that we don't learn from our history (Confusioun)

Who cares! (rigga)



edited bit:

We're not happy until you're not happy (UK-CAA)

 

[Kryten]

"In times of war the Law falls silent"

Cicero