by Dan Berkman

Ten Times in History When “That’s What She Said”

– “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.”

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

– “It lies in the lap of the Gods.”

Homer (8th Century B.C.)

– “Rem tene; verba sequentur.” (Grasp the subject, the words will follow.)

Cato the Elder, Roman Statesman (234 B.C. – 149 B.C.)

– “Not tonight, Josephine.”

Napoleon (1769 – 1821)

– “Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.”

Leon Trotsky (1879 – 1940)

– “We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Benjamin Franklin (uttered at signing of Declaration of Independence in 1776)

– “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

Theodore Roosevelt (uttered April 3, 1903)

– “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

– “What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.”

Charles Montesquieu, philosopher (1869 – 1755)

– “Veni, vidi, vici.” (I came, I saw, I conquered.)

Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)