The Quote Game

[Gannon]

Hello to everybody out there. I thought I would try a game that really interests me, and hopefully might interest some of you out there. Its called the Quote game. I will start it off by posting a quote. The next person posts who made the quote and posts another quote etc, etc etc. It is a great way of finding out new quotes and who made them. Hopefully it is fun. I know I am really bad at quotes and who made them.

Ok, my quote is

IF WE DON'T END WAR - WAR WILL END US

Now it is up to you guys.

[Maud Fitch]

Nice thread, Gannon - H. G. Wells said: "If we don't end war, war will end us."

And who said this quote:

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones"

<the clock is ticking.....>

[Gannon]

Nice one Maud, I bet SKM would have known that one. I believe that is a quote by Stephen King.

How about

COWARDS DIE MANY TIMES BEFORE THEIR ACTUAL DEATHS

[Maud Fitch]

Trust you, Gannon - It's William Shakespeare from Act 2, Scene II of Julius Caesar. It is part of Caesar's speech where he says "Cowards die many times before their deaths..."

And now another one:

"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself"

<the clock is still ticking.....>

[Gannon]

Ha ha Maud, I could not resist throwing in a Caesar quote. Most of the quotes I know are Roman or Greek ones. As I said I am not too good at quotes. I am having a hard time with your quote. I am trying to find out whose it is without cheating and looking it up on the net. I will find it.

[Maud Fitch]

Hey, Gannon, "he who hesitates is lost" <chuckle, chuckle>

[Gannon]

ha ha I tried to find it but had to resort to looking around on the net. It is the playright and once husband of Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller.

Here is a hard one.

THE FOX KNOWS MANY TRICKS THE HEDGEHOG ONE GOOD ONE

Try that one.

[Fran]

I know it's a Greek but I can't remember which one

but it reminded me of this one ... could be an adaptation of your one

'The mouse dreams dreams that would terrify the cat'

[Gannon]

You are right Fran, it is a quote by a Greek poet.

Pretty sure there is no connection with your quote, but a nice try.

Here is a clue, his name starts with an A.

[DavidB52]

. . .
COWARDS DIE MANY TIMES BEFORE THEIR ACTUAL DEATHS
. . .

That is a nice quote, although I have heard it paraphrased more eloquently:

A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man only one.

(And Maud is correct: it is William Shakespeare.)

Here is a hard one.

THE FOX KNOWS MANY TRICKS THE HEDGEHOG ONE GOOD ONE

Try that one.

"The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing."
-- Archilochus

Here is one:

"A mind all logic is like a knife that is all blade; it cuts the hand that wields it."

[Gannon]

Hi DavidB52 I think your quote was made by the Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore.

How about, (I love this one)



A HOME WITHOUT BOOKS IS A BODY WITHOUT SOUL

[Fran]

I think I know that one Gannon ........ Cicero?


Now here's one:

'Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every man'

[DavidB52]

Hi DavidB52 I think your quote was made by the Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore.
. . .

Correct.
Rabindranath Tragore.

[Gannon]

I think I know that one Gannon ........ Cicero?


Now here's one:

'Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every man'

Nice work Fran, I really love that quote and Cicero has so many good ones. Bit stuck on yours at the moment but I will find it.Tracking it down now.
haha I found it Fran it was made by George Fox, and interesting quote.

Now how about -

A PESSIMEST SEES THE DIFFICULTY IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY; AN OPTIMIST SEES THE OPPORTUNITY IN EVERY DIFFICULTY

[Fran]

I think I know that one Gannon ........ Cicero?


Now here's one:

'Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every man'

Nice work Fran, I really love that quote and Cicero has so many good ones. Bit stuck on yours at the moment but I will find it.Tracking it down now.
haha I found it Fran it was made by George Fox, and interesting quote.

Now how about -

A PESSIMEST SEES THE DIFFICULTY IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY; AN OPTIMIST SEES THE OPPORTUNITY IN EVERY DIFFICULTY

That without a doubt was good old Sir Winston Churchill. I do believe he also said 'When you're going through Hell ... keep going'. I like that one.

Now try this one

'Those who can make you believe absurdities can also make you commit atrocities'