Your favourite Post-1900 quote

Artaxerxes

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Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque. - My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.


I love Ferdinand Foch
 
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Archibald

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Just in case anyone on this forum thought that Google translate (or any other automated generalized translation system) was actually functional.

It is probably the same translator that translated George Walker Bush into french as "Le buisson marcheur de George" - more or less George's walking bush (sigh)
 
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I'd break my wife's legs if I played against her, but I'd never cheat her.

Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean you've hurt 'your' knee, it's Liverpool's knee! (To Tommy Smith after he reported he was injured)

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.


Bill Shankly, Liverpool manager 1959 - 1974
 
"Remember my son, that the oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."

From the movie HIGH ROAD TO CHINA. I laugh every time I think about this line...
 
"I didn't know that cocaine was illegal." -Joe Pepitone after being arrested for possession of cocaine and about $6,000. in cash in the glove compartment of his car.
 
It is probably the same translator that translated George Walker Bush into french as "Le buisson marcheur de George" - more or less George's walking bush (sigh)

And the same translator that came up with this gem.

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(For those unversed in the French language, the translation comes out as the rather baffling order to "Polish the sausage")
 

Archibald

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And the same translator that came up with this gem.

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(For those unversed in the French language, the translation comes out as the rather baffling order to "Polish the sausage")

good one. There is also "are you a fan of Mickael Jackson" which was translated as "etes vous le ventilateur de M. J ?"
 
Churchill: "Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."

Or, a quote I modified: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We take from those who defend it poorly"

- BNC
 
"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

-Senator Lloyd Bentsen (Democratic - Texas) to his opponent, Senator Dan Quayle (Republican - Indiana) at the United States Vice Presidential Debate of 1988.
 
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I'd break my wife's legs if I played against her, but I'd never cheat her.

Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean you've hurt 'your' knee, it's Liverpool's knee! (To Tommy Smith after he reported he was injured)

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.


Bill Shankly, Liverpool manager 1959 - 1974
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, I'd close the curtains."
 
Harry ''Breaker'' Morant allegedly telling his firing squad to ''Shoot straight, ya bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"

His poem ''Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday'' is pretty funny too (whether or not you agree he deserved execution).

''In prison cell I sadly sit,
A d__d crest-fallen chappie!
And own to you I feel a bit-
A little bit - unhappy!

It really ain't the place nor time
To reel off rhyming diction -
But yet we'll write a final rhyme
Whilst waiting cru-ci-fixion!

No matter what "end" they decide -
Quick-lime or "b'iling ile," sir?
We'll do our best when crucified
To finish off in style, sir!

But we bequeath a parting tip
For sound advice of such men,
Who come across in transport ship
To polish off the Dutchmen!

If you encounter any Boers
You really must not loot 'em!
And if you wish to leave these shores,
For pity's sake, DON'T SHOOT 'EM!!

And if you'd earn a D.S.O.,
Why every British sinner
Should know the proper way to go
Is: "ASK THE BOER TO DINNER!"

Let's toss a bumper down our throat, -
Before we pass to Heaven,
And toast: "The trim-set petticoat
We leave behind in Devon."
 
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