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Okay, let’s play Who Said It? The game is to post an unattributed quote and challenge the CR to identify the speaker. I’ll start it off. Who said,
“I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C” and “D.” Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?”
Betcha Charlie Hall knows who said it.
Au-H2O
m80 🙂
80: Ba
bless you mod 80 (I know what you are referring to)
Au-H2O
Wow, is that an oldie.
okay my turn
“Oh! Look Daisy! Mickey and I have the same last name!”
First question: Goldwater
Second question: Daisy
Word association, anyone? ?
barium
but the answer to my quote is obviously not daisy
(the soon to be?) Minnie M.
80: I was putting his first name for you.
“It depends what your definition of ‘is’ is”
To guess this quote, think of someone obviously really stupid lol
I cheated,
Minnie
happiest, that was Bill Clinton. Not such a stupid guy, after all.
ya, and ummm- to make a remark like that he has to be stupid. He was definitely not one of our better presidents and he is a democrat so in my eyes he is a bit stupid. I have some other pretty bad ones from him but they are not all “clean” enough for this site.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time!
aries- I love that one.
Phineas T. Barnum?
President Linked-in
How about a paraphrase from Kohelet, that I think Raphael used the other day.
Who actually first said (wrote): The race is not always to the swift nor the fight to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.
What Israeli statesman first said, “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. “
Big hint: he also said, “If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. “
Actually, Abraham Lincoln said “You can fool all of the people…” (phrased a bit more wordily, though).
Begin? Abba Eban?
“Just remember: wherever you go, there you are.”
who said, “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
he also famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
YES, it was Abba Eban on the Arab quote. Very good, little bear.
who said, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
who said, “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
who described a lie as “Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”
what famous warrior advised: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
napoleans are fattening but apparently smart
i dont know who did but its a famous one
yes, Napoleon Bonaparte was the wise warrior.
“who said, “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
he also famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
The same guy who supposedly said, “it gets late early around here” and “nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded”.
I used to call him Yogi Bear when I was little…
one point for APY.
Yoggi berra?
what famous Jewish athlete said:
“In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don’t know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win – if they’re nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth and nice guys with no talent finish last.”
and
“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”
Big Hint: Yogi Berra said of him, after trying to hit against him in the 1963 World Series, “I can see how he won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
When asked for his view on Western civilisation, who answered?:
‘It’s a great idea’.
Sandy Koufax
Some other Yogi classics.
Never answer an anonymous letter
Its deja vu all over again
You can observe a lot by watching
The future aint what it used to be
OtB
Gandhi
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
apy,
also my all time favorite,
it aint over till it’s over
b_h
William James
sounds like one of our philosophies
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
“The most powerfull welfare program is a job”
hint; quoted yesterday by Rick Perry at the republican debate.
otb
Churchill
dz
JFK
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