Favorite quotes or sayings - part - 2

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bumper stickers:
God was my pilot--but then we crashed into a mountain and I had to eat Him.

Gun control means using both hands

from my History of the Vietnam War professor:
"In order to have won the war, we would have had to have resorted to a level of violence that the American people would not have accepted."
"We should have sent US personnel home sooner. The only way to win that war was to put all the friendlies on a boat and turn Southeast Asia into a parking lot. Then sink the boat."
This guy was a LRRP in the 101st if that explains anything.
 
"It would be very embarassing to be killed by someone lower on the evolutionary ladder than yourself."
Bill Jeans
Gunsite Instructor
 
Damn. I love quotes, and I'm crying I'm lauging so hard.

First, a correction:

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

John Paul Jones, when called upon to surrender his vessel by the Captain of (I believe) HMS Serapis.

Some of mine:

He who dares wins.
-unknown

Der Tintenfisch reagiert nicht auf die Gedankenkontrolle
-Ubler

I don't do peon.
-Don Lyons

...those who would uphold authority must not themselves rebel.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

A man's character is his fate.
-Heraclates

I don't believe in the no-win scenario.
-Admiral James T. Kirk

The conculsive proof of my reasoning is the fact that I shall cut anyone who argues further into dog meat.
-Sir Geoffrey d'Tourneville, circa 1360

I won't let you beat me unfairly. I'll beat you unfairly first.
-Orson Scott Card

Beware of the wolf you don't see.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Never assume stupidity in your enemies or intelligence in your allies.
-Coronach

Profitable, Legal, Fun. Pick any two.
-unknown

You who speak languages, you are such liars.
-Orson Scott Card

If thou would have such a one, take me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier, take a king.
-King Henry V to Katherine, Shakespeare's Henry V

Get 'em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.
-unknown

I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime, yet for every criminal there are 10,000 honest, decent, kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up. Business could
not go on from day to day. Decency is not news. It is buried in obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses and the tedious sacrifices of teachers. I believe in the unseen and unending fight against desperate odds that goes on quietly in almost every home.
-Robert Heinlein, This I Believe

No man is above the law, and no man is below it; nor do we ask his permission when we requre him to obey it.
-Theodore Roosevelt

KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
-unknown

Mike

PS And of course, this one...

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
There are two kinds of men those with guns and those who dig...Clint in G B and U(I think)

On the t-shirt of a guy from the bomb squad.....If you see me running try and keep up.
 
"Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut" - Cowboy musings

"Never kick a cow pattie on a hot day" - Cowboy Musings

"Don't squat with your spurs on." - Cowboy Musings

"Always remember to drink upstream from the herd." - Cowboy Musings
 
Rugby players eat their dead.
From the incident the story "Alive" came from. Forwards taste better as they are bigger and have more meat.
 
Shakespeare's the best. A quote for everything.

"Oh, that a man might know the outcome of this day's business ere its end. But it sufficeth that the day will end, and then the end be known."

"He who sheds his blood with me this day will be my brother."
 
I'm afraid I can't remember right now who said this, but it's great: " A common failing among honorable men is a failure to appreciate just how thoroughly dishonorable some other men can be- and how dangerous it is to trust them". Now I wonder who he could have been referring to?
crankshaft
 
Nearly all of my favorites come from the master - Mark Twain.

"When I was a teen, I thought my father was the most ignorant person on the face of the earth. When I reached 22, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned!"

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

"Suppose you were an idiot and then suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"If you start thinking you are a very important person, try giving orders to another man's dog."
 
"Accidents have a high probability level of occurence, but a low frequency." In other words, something is going to happen to you sooner or later, not very often, and it won't be good. - G. Lain Ellis

It is for this very reason that I train.
 
"... do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell..." -Christ

"This ain't Burger King" -my husband, to our kids

"I've got a bad feeling about this..." -Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi



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"Liberty or death, What we so proudly hail... Once you provoke Her, rattling of Her tail- Never begins it, NEVER- But once engaged never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage. DON'T TREAD ON ME!!

"Many's the men who've battled foe
many the number slain,
many the lads have fallen though
Scotland shall rise again."
 
On a T-shirt showing a sniper rifle:
Long Distance, the next best thing to being there

Give me your hearts and minds or I'll burn your f***ing huts down

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