It's a Famous Quote So it Must be Right!

[Solly]

"It's better to let 10000 guilty men go free than kill an innocent" Rubbish..

"Give me freedom ir give me death". I'd rather live slightly less free than be buried six feet under.

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again". Er..how about learning from why you didn't succeed and trying a different approach.

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". This can't have been a straight guy writing this.

Add your own..

[Urban Ranger]

Re: It's a Famous Quote So it Must be Right!

Originally posted by Boddington's
"It's better to let 10000 guilty men go free than kill an innocent" Rubbish..

I suspect you don't want to be that innocent, Stew.

[Japher]

"Curiosity killed the cat." - that one really bugs me; maybe the cat was stupid (like this thread ), maybe the cat was slow... heck curiosity is the offspring of ignorance, so wouldn't be safer to say that ignorance killed the cat?

"All your base are belong to us" - this doesn't even make sense

[DinoDoc]

Re: It's a Famous Quote So it Must be Right!

Originally posted by Boddington's
"It's better to let 10000 guilty men go free than kill an innocent" Rubbish..

The actual quote is: 'It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be in jail.'

[Cruddy]

"If a single British bomb falls on Berlin, you can call me Meier" (Herman Goering).

"If you are going to tell a lie, tell a big lie" (Josef Goebbels)

"Rivers of blood rant rave looney" That right wing idiot who most people have forgotten about.


"I don't see why you would need a hard drive bigger than 40 Mb" Me, back in the days when 40Mb was a big hard drive.

[SlowwHand]

"But I didn't inhale".

[gunkulator]

"I am not a crook!"

[Q Classic]

"If America is a humble nation, we will gain the respect of the world."

[Japher]

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

[gunkulator]

"I did not have sex with that woman."

"Read my lips. No new taxes."

[Provost Harrison]

"They couldn't hit an elephant from this dis..."

General Sedgwick during a US Civil War battle as he looked out over a parapet toward the enemy

[Ben Kenobi]

The actual quote is: 'It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be in jail.'

I guess if it isn't famous, it isn't right. Bodds, your title's getting better all the time.

Besides, your second quote should be Patrick Henry:

"I know not what course others may take,
but give me liberty or give me death!"

http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Japher
"Ich bin ein Berliner"

Why is that funny?

[gunkulator]

Because what he said translated to "I am a jelly doughnut." I thought everyone had heard of that one.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by gunkulator
Because what he said translated to "I am a jelly doughnut." I thought everyone had heard of that one.

Ah, the "jelly doughnut" myth. And here I thought everyone knew that was an urban legend.

What Kennedy said was precisely correct for what he wanted to say, you can ask a native German speaker. You'll note that nobody in the crowd laughed when he made this supposed "gaffe"--they cheered loudly.

On they contrary, had he said "Ich bin Berliner," he would have confused the crowd. The context of this statement was that the world would be "one with Berlin," which is what he said when he said "Ich bin ein Berliner." Had he said the other, he would have been saying literally that he resided in Berlin, which was not true.

That there is a pastry called "Einberliner" [sic?] is irrelevant. If someone said to you, "I am Danish," would you think he were a pastry? Should we assume a resident of Frankfurt who says, in English, "I am a Frankfurter" is a hotdog? "I am a New Yorker"--am I a magazine?

Kennedy was not dumb and worked diligently with a native German linguist to say precisely what he wanted to say.