Interesting Quotes - Page 23

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All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I'll never go there.

- Unknown. Popularized by Charlie Munger.

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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

- Thomas Sowell

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Level 66

Jan 29, 2024

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing".

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky (in Crime and Punishment Part 4 Chapter 4)

Level 59

Feb 24, 2024

as for 111 your death could be on an vehicle or airplane going or being driven off course.

Level 63

Feb 27, 2024

Some World War I quotes.

"This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years."

-Ferdinand Foch, 1919 (Attributed to him by Winston Churchill)

"One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”

-Otto von Bismarck, 1888

"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees."

-Wilhelm II, August 1914

Level 56

Apr 4, 2024

These can't be real, can they?

Level 56

Apr 4, 2024

Well, I guess that if you say enough things then eventually one of them will be right.

Level 63

Mar 9, 2024

Silence is not only golden, it's seldom misquoted.

-Bob Monkhouse

There are guys in Alabama who are their own father.

- Dennis Miller

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.

- Yogi Berra

Level 63

Mar 13, 2024

I never said half the things I said.

-Yogi Berra

Level 17

Apr 4, 2024

"Now I know there are people who disagree with me, they say 'I think popcorn can't be number one, because it gets stuck in your teeth.' And yes, it does get stuck in your teeth, and that feels bad, but that bad feeling is offset by how good it feels when you finally get it out of there."

—Ivan Decker

Level 17

Apr 5, 2024

“The next time I get cancelled for a joke, I’m going to make a public statement. I’m going to say (sarcastically), ‘I'm sorry.’ And then they’ll say, ‘You don’t really mean that apology.” And then I’ll say, ‘So I can say something and not mean it? Now you're getting it.”

—Jimmy Carr

Level 73

Apr 8, 2024

"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that"

- Captain Edward Smith, RMS Titanic

Level 59

Apr 23, 2024

Clearly you didnt read the other quotes. Someone can never draw up a list of things he would never think of! And he wouldnt think like 7 bulk heads would break, because what could cause that? Any damage would be to less than that.