re: Bad arse historical quotes

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

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Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

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- King Henry the V

From the deep thinker...Hank Hill

"The only woman I'm pimping is sweet lady propane! And I'm tricking her out all over this town."

"Maybe my father is Tom Landry. That would explain my strong chin and my love for the flex defense. I wonder if I would call him 'dad' or 'coach'. Nah who am I kidding? I would call him 'sir.'"

"Bobby, if you weren't my son, I'd hug you."

“There’s something missing, something wrong…it’s like a pretty girl with short hair.”

"WTF was that?" Mayor of Hiroshima August 6, 1945

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wasn't his best quote

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Wasn't the actor who played Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket the same guy who played Timmy/Jimmy the Door Gunner in Apocalypse Now?

If so, his best quote was in response to COL Kilgore asking "How do you feel today, Jimmy?"

"LIKE A MEAN MOTHERfrickER, SIR!"

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King Henry the V

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Written by Shakespeare

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken"

-Col. Sanders

"Blarghhhuhhh" -Hellen Keller

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Lady Nancy Astor:"If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Winston Churchill: "If I were your husband, I'd drink it."

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He has another great one.

Woman at a party tells him "Sir Winston you're drunk!"

WC replies "Yes madame, but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly"

One of my all time favorites.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
- Euripides