Favorite Quotes or Sayings.... Again?

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I started out with nothing... and still have most of it left.

It is going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.

Consider what you think justice requires and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgement will proably be right, but your reasons will certaianly be wrong.

Everything that i did in my life wortwhile, I caught hell for.

Look out for women. you never know when they're going to scream, or faint or go for a gun!

Anyone who stares long enough into the distance is bound to be mistaken for a philosopher or mystic in the end.
 
One of my favorites,

"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance"

Theodore Roosevelt, 12 October 1915
 
"The shot you don't see coming is the one that gets you." ~me

"The way you train is the way you react." ~don't remember who said that

"The way you spar is who you are." ~old saying around the practice hall

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." ~Franz Kafka

"I cast no stones. The need to conform and the need to stand out seem to me to stem from the same place." ~Guinevere Turner

"There's the way things ought to be, and there's the way things are." ~Tom Berenger in Platoon

"When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can." ~Thomas Harris

"We're all someone's daughter;
"We're all someone's son."
~John Farnham

"Evil bores me. It's one note. It doesn't sing. Of course life sucks; it always will. So why not make the most of it? How dare you not lunge for every shred of happiness?" ~the priest in Jeffery

"You gotta grab all that gusto sh*t." ~Eric Bogosian in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
 
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Which I use all the time in business, but I mangle it to say:

No project plan survives first contact with the customer.
 
" It is far better to keep ones mouth shut and seem a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."

" I`m here to kick a$$ and chew bubblegum, and I`m all out of bubblegum !!! "

" Oh, I`m sorry, you must have confused me with somebody who gives a sh*t."
 
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""The way you train is the way you react." ~don't remember who said that

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A similar version is "Train like you fight, or die like you train"

Another old Air Force saying I'm fond of is "a parachute (or gun) is one of those things that when you need it, you usually need it pretty bad".

Tom
 
You can build a throne from bayonets, but you can't sit on it. Boris Yeltsin [I think]

Glory is like a dead fish in the moonlight- It shines and stinks at the same time. Seminole Indians [I think]

The best way to keep your word, is not to give it. Napoleon
 
some I rememeber: (I apoligize if this offends anyone)

friendly fire isn't all that friendly

the only thing more accurate than enemy fire is usually friendly fire.

as long as there are tests in school, there will be prayer there as well

10-4 additionally you're clear to (supposed to be 10-8) code 8.

never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.

having a buddy is essentual, it gives the other side someone else to shoot at.

incoming fire has the right of way.

don't look important, this draws fire.

UltimaSE
 
This little exchange is one of my favorites.

"You've got to stop making those stupid noises."
"I was TALKING!"
"Right."


Other quotes....


"Congratulations, I have arrived!"

"It's not that I'm insensative to your needs, or that I don't understand your problem. It's just that I don't give a [EXPLETIVE DELETED]". -Me

"Never fear another man, no matter what his size. If trouble threatens, call on me, and I will equalize." -Gun advertisement from the late 1800s

"Everybody dies. Die standing up."

"3...2...1...Impact. BOOM! OH, YEAH!" -Gulf war aircraft's bombadier/navigator (can't remember if it was an A-6E Intruder or an F-111 'Vark...)

"You jammed your AK-47? What'd you do, s*** in the magazine?"
 
Just check the signature.

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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seeknot your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
 
"A man under age 30 who is not a liberal has no heart. A man over age 30 who is not a conservative has no brain." -- Winston Churchill (I think)
 
The one my grandfather kept over his workbench...

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil -
FOR I AM THE MEANEST BASTARD IN THE VALLEY!

I still miss that old man
 
God gave you a soul.
Your parents, a body.
Your Country, a rifle.
Keep all of them clean.

- From the Spanish Paratroopers Creed.
 
May you live in interesting times. May you come to the attention of persons in high places. -- ancient Chinese curse.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long. -- Robert A. Heinlein's "Lazarus Long"

Nuke the Whales! -- Me; printed on a button I used to wear at the airport when Greenpeacers, Hare Krishnas, and others used to aggressively panhandle there.
 
Is that a tear, is daddy's little girl gonna cry?-Beavis.

Elvis is dead, but at least he isn't gaining anymore weight.-Pin I used to have.

That's what they all say, they all say DOH. Chief Wiggum.

You shot who in the what now?-Jasper(Simpsons)

Beware the dumb, drunk, and deranged.


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chadintex@hotmail.com
 
"Every so often, a man has to spit on his hands, raise the black flag, and start slitting throats." Menkin?

"It's a great story and if it isn't true, it should be." My late Aunt Marguerite
 
Do any of these do it for you? If not, check my signature line, courtesy of ol' Wild Bill, hisself! ;)

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
--Frank Sinatra


An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
--Ernest Hemingway


A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency
to thank her.
--W.C. Fields


When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
--Henny Youngman


24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
--Stephen Wright


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o I raised my hand to eye level, like pointing a finger, and fired. Wild Bill Hickok
 
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