Quotes you remember...

[Raithe]

"Skipping details like whether science could actually do it or the country could pay for it, JFK declared that by 1970 America would put at least one guy on the moon then (as a recruiting tool) bring him back alive. We weren't around, but we've always pictured the NASA guys hearing that and doing spit takes. At any rate, America's best and brightest nerds had a decade-minus to cash the check JFK's mouth had written. Kennedy himself then busied himself with other affairs of state, like Marilyn Monroe...."

[Monte Carlo]

I had to copy this out by hand, rather than copy paste, so have a read:

 

The 71st Infantry Division was attacking on all sides the grain stores which were being defended by the Russian soldiers. After three days the defenders sent a radio message to their commanders...

'We have no food'

The answer was 'Fight, then you will forget your hunger.'

Three days later they transmitted again: 'We no longer have anything to drink, what are we to do?' And back came the reply:

'Now is the time to live on your wits and your ammunition'

The defenders waited for two days and then came the last message.

'We no longer have any ammunition'.

Hardly five minutes had passed and they had their reply:

'The Soviet Union thanks you, you have served your purpose.'

 

Quoted in 'Hero or Coward' by Elmar Dinter.

 

Or, as Stalin famously said, "It's takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army."

[Kaftan Barlast]

"My Lord Hamlet, may I use your bathroom?"

 

-Winston Churchill to Richard Burton

[Raithe]

Sir David Niven to the troops he led on D-Day during the beach approach :

 

""Look, you chaps only have to do this once. But I'll have to do it all over again in Hollywood with Errol Flynn!"

 

 

Asked by suspicious American sentries during the Battle of the Bulge who had won the World Series in 1943, Niven replied:

 

"Haven't the foggiest idea . . . But I did co-star with Ginger Rogers in Bachelor Mother!"

[Monte Carlo]

I urge people to read The Moon's a Balloon even if they haven't a clue who David Niven was. It's laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully written.

[Raithe]

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening ear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn. "

- Blackadder,

 

"Something is always wrong, Balders. The fact that I am not a millionaire aristocrat with the sexual capacity of a rutting rhino is a constant niggle."

- Blackadder,