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The 776 stupidest things ever said
Ross and Kathryn Petras were collecting other people’s stupidities, and have published a book named The 776 stupidest things ever said.
Here are a few of them:
On Bombing, the true meaning of:
“You always write it’s bombing, bombing, bombing. It’s not bombing, it’s air support.”
~ US Air Force Colonel David Offer, air attaché in Cambodia, complaining to reporters about their coverage of the Vietnam War. ~
On Death, Government Ability to communicate after:
“Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued… Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
~ Illinois Department of Public Aid ~
On the Death penalty, thought-provoking questions about:
“Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years, with time off for good behavior?”
~ New York State Senator James H. Donovan on capital punishment ~
On suicide, how to stop it:
“The only way to stop this suicide wave is to make it a capital offense, punishable by death.”
~ Irish Legislator in Parliament ~
On telling the truth:
“If I tell a lie it is only because I think I’m telling the truth.”
~ Phil Gagliardi, Minister of Highways, in British Columbia, Canada ~
On lies:
“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.”
~ Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate in a 1978 interview ~
On jumping the gun:
“I am in control here. As of now, I am in control here in the White House.”
~ Alexander Haig, then Secretary of State, after President Reagan was shot, forgetting that in actuality he was fourth in line of succession ~
On Fascism:
“Don’t you know I’m a fascist? You know, a guy who says one thing and means another?”
~ Danny Osark ~
On Interruption:
“Don’t talk to me while I am interrupting.”
~ Director Michael Curtiz ~
On guilty, innocent until proven:
(Hijackers) should be given a rapid trial with due process of law at the airport, then hanged.”
~ Edward Davis, police chief of Los Angeles in 1973 ~
On Language:
“I’m no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language there isn’t even a word for freedom.”
~ President Ronald Reagan on why Russia was still – and presumably always would be Communist, overlooking the word svoboda, or freedom ~
On the Mid East crisis:
“Why can’t the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?”
~ Overheard during a congressional debate; also attributed to Arthur Balfour, British statesman, Primer Minister and Foreign Secretary ~
On modern art, Hitler’s sensitivity to:
“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized.”
~ Adolph Hitler, painter of stiff, inhuman city scopes and sponsor of the Aryan art movement which lost popularity after April 1945 ~
On Shakespeare, Soviet confirmation of little-known facts about:
“I asked one of the principal actors of the dramatic theater about Shakespeare, and he told me that he is just learning German, so that he may soon be able to read Shakespeare in the original.”
~ From the Soviet literary magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta, 1940 ~
Jogi Berra’s Finest Lines:
“If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.”
“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“How can you think and hit at the same time?”
“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”
“I will get it when I die.” (Explaining why he brought a large life insurance policy)
“We made too many wrong mistakes” (Explaining why the Yankees lost the 1960 World Series)
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Permalink Reply by Michel on -
Yes.
That's what you get when the mind reaches a summit and then steps forward.
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Permalink Reply by Adriana on -
“The only way to stop this suicide wave is to make it a capital offense, punishable by death.”
~ Irish Legislator in Parliament ~My favorite from that list :-)
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Permalink Reply by Neo on -
“Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years, with time off for good behavior?”
~ New York State Senator James H. Donovan on capital punishment ~^ This is my favorite.
"If you take the road less traveled your bound to get lost"~author unknown~
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Permalink Reply by Adriana on
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Actually, perhaps there would be no Christianity if Christ (assuming he was one person and not a composite of various people) had not been tortured and killed. Martyrs are often needed to start up religions or to split from a previous religion.
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Permalink Reply by Claudia Mercedes Mazzucco on -
It was Kierkegaard who said, “The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
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Permalink Reply by Eman Al S on -
“Why can’t the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?”
~ Overheard during a congressional debate; also attributed to Arthur Balfour, British statesman, Primer Minister and Foreign Secretary ~This has to be a joke XD
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Permalink Reply by Michel on
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More Berra Gold:
- A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
- Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
- I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
- I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
- If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
- Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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