Quips& Quotes

“In God we trust; all others we track.” – military motto

“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.” – Gloria Steinem

“You can’t make old friends.” – Christopher Hitchens, quoted in the Guardian

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas, quoted on Inc.com

“Nothing exceeds like excess.” – Nigella Lawson

“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus

“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” – Ernest Hemingway

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D Roosevelt

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” – Will Rogers

“After World War II, Bader gave a talk at a smart girls’ school. ‘So there were two of the f---kers behind me, three f---kers to my right, another f---ker on the left,’ he said. At which point the head mistress interjected, ‘Ladies, the Fokker was a German aircraft.’ Bader replied: ‘That may be, madam, but these f---kers were in Messerschmitts.’”

– London’s Times Diary on the anniversary of the death of Spitfire ace Sir Douglas Bader heritage without the baggage of deliberate lies. Murray Reid (Tuakau)