h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Another from Boney, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Which was something Wellington had obviously learnt very well when Ney was ordering unsupported cavalry charges at Waterloo.

The Iron Duke, "We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. "

There's the famnous:

'Harry, fahr schon mal den Wagen vor' (Harry, go and get the car'), allegedly said by' Kommissar Derek'( a famous tv series here in Germany). It's often quoted, but Derek (horst Tappert) claimed he never said that.

"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle won."

Wellington

I spend too much time on hootoo, the title of the series is 'Derrick' - can you tell I never watched it?

Wellington again, addressing his troops

'I don't know what effect you have on the enemy, but, by God, you terrify me.'

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George S. Patton

Onedin, Maginot, Bakerloo...?

The hypoteneuse?

And what would that be without the adjacent and opposite?

"I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the consitution of a concrete elephant!"
Queenie Elizabeth I

"Sir? Are you are drunk?"
"I maybe drunk ... but you madam are ugly. Whereas tomorrow I will only have a hangover, you will remain ugly"

Any ideas who said this? Someone famous but have forgotten the name??

Winston Churchill?

Yes, it was he.

"Come up and see me sometime"

Mae West

Ah, the wonderful Mae West

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

"I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported."

"A hard man is good to find."

"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."

"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."

"I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."

"It is better to be looked over than overlooked"

"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men."

"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better."

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful."

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

Words to live by.

This woman frightens me (see above)

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"Of all the bars in all the world" Rick 'Casablanca'

.. Play it again, Sam.. (not said by Rick in Casablanca!)

'Golf is a good walk, spoiled'
Mark Twain.

'You should try everything once except incest and Morris dancing...'
Arnold Bax

(and I disagree with him on Morris dancing... done it loads of times, and hasn't affected me!)

MMF

'I am going outside and may be some time' Titus Oates.

Mandatory when leaving a tent.

Thought about bringing Morris Dancing to Germany. We had a lecturer at university and he did it - apparently most of the time was dancing and the rest drinking real ale!!