Name This Quote

[JsWoman]

Ok, since I'm starting this thread, I'll let you know the rules. Someone puts up a quote and other people try to guess who said it. You have to leave a clue, to give the other players something to work off of. It's very simple, but should be interesting if I can get people to actually play with it.

Ok, here goes.

"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."

mathmetician <---- That's the clue.

[yarnellcg17]

Albert Einstein is my answer..

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

Clue is..This individual made History on July 20, 1969..

[JsWoman]

Checking out that date I came up with it being when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldridge first walked on the moon. If I had to choose, though, I would pick Neil Armstrong.

"My mother kept an extra roll of toilet paper that had a little knit hat with a pompon, the dog had a swaeter, and the couch had little fabric toupees. I never felt the need to try drugs. My reality was already altered."

TV show actor.

edit: Maybe I should add comedian.

[yarnellcg17]

Jerry Seinfeld is my answer..

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."


Actor/Playwrite/Comedian.. wrote a book named Getting Even

[JsWoman]

Woody Allen

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm."

20th century president

[yarnellcg17]

Harry S. Truman is my answer..


“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”


A First Lady of The United States...20th Century

[JsWoman]

Eleanor Roosevelt is my guess.

"The peaks on the Apennines once stood up in a sea, in the form of islands surrounded by salt water, and above the plains of Italy where flocks of birds are flying today, fishes were once moving in large shoals."

Famous artist and inventor.

[yarnellcg17]

Leonardo Da Vinci is my answer...

Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Author... one of his characters likes to venture ..not sure if he liked painting fences ..

[JsWoman]

Samuel Clemens, or, as he's better known as, Mark Twain. Huck Fin being one of his most popular ones released.

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."

Author and famous pshycologist.

[yarnellcg17]

Sigmund Freud


I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
I have passed unnumbered hours, I shall pass unnumbered hours thinking and planning how war may be kept from this nation.

20th Century US President.... He repealed the 18th Amendment..

[Arkacia]

Is it Franklin Delano Rousevelt (sorry don't know how to spell his name).

[yarnellcg17]

You are right Arkacia.. :D ..


"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"


18th Century Author/Patriot

[Arkacia]

The last bit is familiar but I'm not sure who said it. Am not too knowlegable on that part of US history.

At a guess.....Paul Revere?

[yarnellcg17]

Nopes..not Paul Revere... his name is Patrick tho..but needs a last name since
his Colonial Parents forgot..hehehehehe..

he does have a last name..hehehehee

[JsWoman]

I'm sure his parents didn't forget to give him his last name :rolleyes:

But Patrick Henry is the right answer.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

US architect that designed a well known Museum.

[yarnellcg17]

Frank Lloyd Wright


"Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!"

19th Century US poet and essayist
Father of a US Supreme Court Justice
bearing the same name..

[JoeN]

Lets get this game rolling again

Oliver Holmes

I knew that AP US History class would help me one day.

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

Comedian kinda old but still the best out there IMHO.

[yarnellcg17]

George Carlin..
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Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Former Sheriff in Erie Co. NY

( nicked as the Buffalo Hangman )

19th Century US President

( only President to ever be elected to 2 non consecutive terms )

[JoeN]

I figured i wait and give someone else a shot but since nobody wants to try....Grover Cleveland

"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life"

Lets call him a famous psychologist that didn't do cocaine.

[yarnellcg17]

Carl Jung

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.


17th Century King

[JoeN]

Ok i thought about it for about 3 days and i couldn't thihnk of who it was so i looked it up. I know bad me. Oh well

King Charles I

Ok every drinker should know this quote.

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

18th Century American, inventor, poltician, etc, etc.....Kite

[yarnellcg17]

Benjamin Franklin

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

20th century football coach..and ya might just have collected his games.

[JsWoman]

John Madden

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, "Because it's such a beautiful animal." There you go. Well, I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Comedian, actress, and talk show host.

[yarnellcg17]

Ellen DeGeneres

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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

18th Century politician.. entrepreneur ( criminally )

You couldn't miss his signature even if you signed your own that large on a document..

[JsWoman]

That one was easy.. :rolleyes: John Hancock

Question with boldness even the existence of God; Because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Inventor and politician

[yarnellcg17]

Thomas Jefferson

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light."


19th Century author

[JsWoman]

Mark Twain

There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr. Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. The wind puffed, and Mr. Pickwick puffed, and the hat rolled over and over as merrily as a living porpoise in a strong tide.

Writer of books

[yarnellcg17]

Charles Dickens

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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.


US movie actor, comedian, & director

[JsWoman]

Woody Allen


My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.

Comedian, actor, and positive speaker.

[yarnellcg17]

Bill Cosby

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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

British Politician..
Prime Minister..
Knighted by the Queen..
Made honorary US citizen 1963..

[JsWoman]

Sir Winston Churchill


English women's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described but who had never seen any.

US Story Writer, wrote against some Englis customs, and who died in 1997.

No, your answer is wrong, Yarnell... Will add in that this is a woman. :rolleyes:

[yarnellcg17]

The only Writer that I come across to be a very good and sometimes harsh critic Is William S. Burroughs he died in 1997..

[JsWoman]

Ok, I'm going to put up some other quotes by this same person, hoping that maybe you all will come up with her name, easier...

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.


Hope these new quotes will help pinpoint the person. :rolleyes:

[yarnellcg17]

Margaret Halsey
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I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Former US President ( 20th Century )
He put Einsteins theory to the ultimate test

[JsWoman]

President Harry S. Truman. Too easy. My turn.

You will always find hatred strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Lived from 1749-1832, a German writer, leader of the German Romantic movement; a philosopher; but, foremost, a scientist.

[yarnellcg17]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

Played in the NFL 1978-89
US Congressman

[JsWoman]

Steve Largent
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I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a cat or a dog; they're the best for every day.

Lived from 1856-1950, was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and a socialist spokesman

[yarnellcg17]

George Bernard Shaw
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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

Famous female comedian.
Born on July 17, 1917, in Lima, Ohio is an American comedian who is generally considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy.

[JsWoman]

Phyllis Diller

I was considering doing something with Billy Idol. That would have been good because we're both white and plastic and blond.

Female singer, still alive, and has had many controvercial songs. Many younger singers try to emulate her.

[yarnellcg17]

Madonna
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The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

US black civil rights leader & clergyman

[JsWoman]

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

An assasinated US president.

[yarnellcg17]

John F. Kennedy
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.


Author

[JsWoman]

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an edito doubtless deserved the error that provoked it.

Male author.. Wave theory

[yarnellcg17]

Alvin Toffler
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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.


US Author

It's all about a painted fence <---Hint

[JsWoman]

Mark Twain.... Or his real name is, I think, Samuel Clemmons.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Lived from 1879–1962, German-born physician, author.

[yarnellcg17]

Martin H. Fischer
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me
to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Famous Child Actress 1930's

[JsWoman]

Shirley Temple
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It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Female, Writer (books and plays)

I'm sorry if this is too close to my last post, but wanted to put up another quote by this same person.


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

[yarnellcg17]

Mignon McLaughlin
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We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

US Vice President during the late 1960's
Ran for President in 1968

[JsWoman]

Hubert H. Humphrey
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

She's a novelist and philosopher, born in July, 1919 in Dublin.

[yarnellcg17]

Iris Murdoch
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

American Hollywood Screenwriter and Novelist celebrated for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

[JsWoman]

Anita Loos
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Lived from 1920-1998. Was cocreator and president of WEDO, a global organization.

[yarnellcg17]

Bella Abzug
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

US President
Louisiana wouldn't exist without him

[JsWoman]

Thomas Jefferson
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Is the greatest football manager all time.

[yarnellcg17]

Bill Shankly..Sunday Times Oct. 4, 1981
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Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.

Warning Label for an Item :D

[JsWoman]

Thought this was supposed to be quotes by people, not off of toys and clothes items. :rolleyes:

Batman Costume warning label
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For years I have been known for saying "Include me out"; but today I am giving it up for ever.

Lived from 1882-1974, American film producer.

[yarnellcg17]

Samuel Goldwyn co-founded MGM
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I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

US journalist, author, humorist (1927-1996)

[JsWoman]

Erma Bombeck
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.

A screen legend who has been honored with three Oscars and ten nominations.

[yarnellcg17]

Paul Newman
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."

Born 1913
20th Century US President
Did badly in the 1960 Presidential Debate

[JsWoman]

Richard M. Nixon
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Monuments last much longer than words. Civilizations are remembered by buildings. There's nothing more important than architecture.

1906-2005, American architect

[yarnellcg17]

Philip Johnson
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Born in 1888 in Missouri
Prominent lecturer
Wrote: "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living."

[JsWoman]

Dale Carnegie

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Famous British singer whose band made it big in the US.

[yarnellcg17]

Paul McCartney
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The histories of mankind . . . are histories only of the higher classes.

English economist (1766-1834)

[JsWoman]

Thomas Robert Malthus
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

An ancient philosopher.

[yarnellcg17]

Hypatia
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Founder of the Russian Communist Party

Born 1870
Died 1924

[JsWoman]

Vladimir Lenin

In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it have turned out to be "annus horribilis."

Prominent lady leader of Europe's past.

[yarnellcg17]

Queen Elizabeth II
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

American Writer, b.1929

[JsWoman]

Marilyn French

Turning thiry-five isn't that traumatic for me, because I didn't hit puberty until I was thirty. The key is pace yourself.

Evening talkshow host.

[yarnellcg17]

Conan
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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Second really to do the Tonight Show
Born 1925
Died 2005

[JsWoman]

Johnny Carson

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

A child prodigy, who was educated by his father, and was a mathematician of the first order.

[yarnellcg17]

Blaise Pascal
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

American Boxer Born 1942
Was in Olympics in 1960 under his birth name
but is known for his name today..

[JsWoman]

Muhammed Ali

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that mother is there.

Married to Rudolf Sieber, and her daughter is Maria Elizabeth Sieber.

[yarnellcg17]

Marlene Dietrich
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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

American Automobile Racer.. Born 1934 who won the Indianapolis 500 race three times (1968, 1975, 1981), b.1934

[JsWoman]

Bobby Usner

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Born October 15, 1920, in "Hell's Kitchen" on Manhattan's (NY) West Side and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University.

[yarnellcg17]

Mario Puzo
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The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as, from 1933 onward, “political criminality” was given a much broader definition than ever before and most forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more “laws” or lawlike measures were put on the books than ever.

Historian
In 2005 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[JoeN]

Shelia Fitzpatrick
I must say i read a lot of quotes before i came across that one.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression.* Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism.

He lost the presidential race twice