Take it for what its worth.
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion." - G.K. Chesterton
This one is for you Semp.
"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem" - Ronald Reagan
This one is for all of us.
"Power flows through the barrel of a gun" - Mao Tse-tung (Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party)
Then he took all the guns!
Register to vote. And vote; as if your guns depend on it.
AMEN!! :highclap: :highclap:
Quote from: coyote101 on February 08, 2008, 05:13:42 AM
Register to vote. And vote; as if your guns depend on it.
Now that's a quote I can agree w/. :wink:
For all you NASCAR fans.
"Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up there and eat that candy ass!" - Dale Earnhardt
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
I think I can use that one Pat!!!! :roflmao:
I love that one Pat! :roflmao: :roflmao:
That's pretty good Pat. :yoyo:
For those who question:
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is" - Albert Camus
Amen to that.
Another one for those with questions:
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" - Scott Adams
I got where I look forward to these quotes of the day. :congrats:
For Abraham Lincoln on the 200th anniversary of his birth:
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
Since its his birthday, he gets two.
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." - Abraham Lincoln
Whoa! That second one is pretty heavy! :huh:
The folks that shaped this Nation during it's 1st 50years were way beyond their time in thought. And now,,,,, well,,,,, :rolleye:.
I've heard the 1st quote before but never the 2nd. How true they are.
We have already lost our freedoms, or a great many of them. If the Dems get elected, more will be taken away. Problem is, if McCain get elected, we stand to suffer the same fate.
The 4th Amendment to the Consitution was done away with by the Patriot Act
McCain Finegold did away with the 1st
The others are sure to suffer the same fate.
We now live in a country that has been rulled by two families for the last 20 years, and quite possably could be ruled by the same two families for the next 16.
Our laws are made by people who have been in Goverment for as many as 50 years in some cases, and are so removed from "the people" that they are no longer doing what is good for us, but instead, good for them.
Our infastructure is crumbling around us, our borders are wide open, large corporations dictate what we are able to afford, and the Govermnet that was formed to be of the people and for the people has become a mockery in the international community.
We are a divided nation, with little hope of ever regaiining our original vision.
We are ripe for civil war, and I forsee that if Obama gets elected and some nut white supermist takes him out. If we were attacked today, there would be little we could do to defend ourselves. It would be up to the people, and a great many of them wouldn't even care.
AL
This nation was built on GOD. (IN GOD WE TRUST) but now we are not even allowed to say that name in public or we might affend someone. The saying, it was good enough for Grandma, doesn't mean anything today. I believe that is why are country is in such bad shape is because we have forgotten where we have came from and where are ansesters have came from.
David
Since we're getting wound up...here's some more:
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties" - Abraham Lincoln
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." - Abraham Lincoln
"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets" - Abraham Lincoln
We, as responsible citizens, must be informed and involved. Pay attention to what your elected officials are doing, from the local school board, judges and governmental bodies, to your U.S. Congressmen, Senators and President. Write, phone or email them and let them know that you are a constituent and where you stand on the issues. And if you're not happy with them; vote the scoundrels out!!. If you don't vote, you have no right to complain.
And join the NRA!
Planning an overthrow of the government is illegal.
Interesting how that works huh?
Al
QuotePlanning an overthrow of the government is illegal.
Read that last quote again - We do it from the voting booth.
Pat
QuoteWe do it from the voting booth
Then we are doomed.
Al
QuoteThen we are doomed.
I just can't get away from Lincoln today.
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just" - Abraham Lincoln
"My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth" - Abraham Lincoln
He said those things over a hundred and forty years ago. All hope is not yet lost.
I think tomorrow I'll lighten things up a little.
Pat
This is for....well ....you know who you are:
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers
That's a good one! LOL
Al
If stupidity will help I',m your guy.
If we teach our children what is "right" by our God and our constitution and we live that teaching we are then on the correct path. We have not lost our freedoms, some have just stretched the meaning a bit out of shape.
I think I've tested that a few times.
For all you old lovers out there trying to keep the "little lady" happy on Valentine's Day:
"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it." - Lyndon B. Johnson
This is what I yell at the coyotes after yet another unsuccessful hunt:
"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you." - Yogi Berra
You have to love Yogi.
I have to be out of town and away form the computer for the weekend, so the Saturday and Sunday quotes are early. Read them all at once, read them one day at a time, or don't read them at all, its your choice.
Pat
This is for all you fans of the greatest western ever:
"What's good for me might not be good for the weak minded." - Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove
For all of us:
"If men will not be governed by God, then they must be governed by tyrants." - William Penn
For two of the greatest on President's Day:
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to the burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - George Washington
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
For all ....well.... if the shoe fits:
"Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning "bad hunter". - Anonymous
:roflmao: :eyebrownod: :roflmao:
Aint it the truth !!
AL
It was good idea a hundred years ago, and its a good idea today:
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country." - Theodore Roosevelt
This is for FinsnFur:
"Winter is natures way of saying "Up yours." - Robert Byrne
^^^^ :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Yeah, Jimbo take that! :laf:
For George Washington, on his birthday:
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance. They are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - George Washington
Because he was such a smart guy, he gets two:
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle." - George Washington
"Reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle." -
boy was he ever ahead of his time on that one.
The fine men that drafted the Constitution were more than 231 years ahead of their time. They knew then what could happen now.
kinda makes you wonder if it was happening then and it just wasnt documented. Either way, its been illustrated time and again that they were right. Sad to say.
For the race fans among us:
"God created bumpers and....bumpers were made for bumping! - Dale Earnhardt
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo
Too bad more people don't believe that way. :biggrin:
"The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there." - Vince Lombardi
For those that are enthralled by the flowery, empty speeches:
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." Adolf Hitler
For those of us with kids:
"Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected." - Red Buttons
" I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well." - Robert Benchley
I think I resemble that quote.
Jerry
It takes a very Smart man that figgers out how much he don't know. cc
"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan
"Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it!" - W.C. Fields
haha , nobodys touching this one ?? :laf: :laf: :laf:
Jeb
"The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator."
- Rick Perry
"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy." - Hamlin Garland
I have to find a place on one of my web sites for that one. Great quote.
Al
Yes,That is one of the best so far.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs
"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." - Alfred North Whitehe
exactly
don't i know it
"A word to the wise ain't necessary, its the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby
BUT THEY WON'T FRICKEN LISTEN! :madd:
Ain't it the truth :)
Al
"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty on the supposition that he may abuse it." - George Washington
"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." - Satchel Paige
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa
Amen!
Jerry
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us." - Charles Caleb Colton
A couple of thoughts on getting older:
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mickey Mantle
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote from: coyote101 on March 11, 2008, 05:17:49 AM
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."- Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is what I keep telling my wife. I won't repeat to you what she says after I say this, but it is something about the toy working better when I was younger. :hahaha:
Jerry
Quote from: Hawks Feather on March 11, 2008, 07:38:24 AM
Quote from: coyote101 on March 11, 2008, 05:17:49 AM
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."- Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is what I keep telling my wife. I won't repeat to you what she says after I say this, but it is something about the toy working better when I was younger. :hahaha:
Jerry
:confused: Maybe it just needs new batteries Jerry!! :shrug:
:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
Just seems timely:
"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes." - Thomas Jefferson
A little more about getting older:
"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." - Leo Rosenberg
Boy, :doh2: thats gonna suck!
What zipper?
see? :roflmao:
I think I know this guy:
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid." - Heinrich Heine
"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet." - Rodney Dangerfield
"Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man." - Francis Cardinal Spellman
For those who can't make up their mind:
"The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos." - Jim Hightower
While not an armadillo, this is close. :biggrin:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/JLx220/Notmyjob.jpg)
When I lived in Alabama, they called armadillo, "possum on the half shell"
Pat
"A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion." - Unknown
Speaking of opinions, the Supreme Court of the United States hears oral arguments today on the D.C. gun ban. Their opinion will probably not be out until June, but it will potentially effect gun laws and gun owners throughout the country. I like to believe they will make the correct decision and interpret the clear historically accurate meaning of the Second Amendment, but I have been disappointed by them before. (McCain-Fiengold) We have alot riding on this one fellas.
Pat
Join the NRA
Be very afraid:
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams
"Competition brings out the best and the worst in us." unknown
but
"Who practices to take second place?", jbordy
Maybe we should ask all of those who are tied with Tiger Woods with only 3 holes to go! :wo:
"Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions." - Charles Caleb Colton
I will be gone for the weekend and away from the computer. I'm going to post the quotes for Saturday and Sunday today.
Read them all at once or one day at a time, which ever you choose. In any event I hope you enjoy them and have a blessed Easter.
Pat
I think this says it all:
"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job. - Jose Ortega y Gasset
He is Risen! - Mark 16:6
Amen
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from: coyote101 on March 24, 2008, 07:00:47 AM
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoa! That's a good one. I hope it works with coyote hunting. :congrats:
Jim
"Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you."- Bennett Cerf
"The sportsman lives his life vicariously. For he secretly yearns to have lived before, in a simpler time. A time when his love for the land, water, fish and wildlife would be more than just part of his life. It would be his state of mind." - Jim Slinsky
For all the pilots out there:
"Don't tell mom I'm a pilot, she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse" - Unknown
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut." -Will Rogers
"How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?" - Unknown
Quote from: coyote101 on March 29, 2008, 01:09:56 AM
"How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?" - Unknown
That's what I'm talking about. Every time I go camping it takes two tires, five gallons of gasoline and a box of 500 matches just to roast some wieners.......... :eyebrownod:
Threw a cigarette out the window once and caught everything in the truckbed on fire.......... :roflmao:
"When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself." – William O. Douglas
"My idea of fast food is a mallard." - Ted Nugent
QuoteThat's what I'm talking about. Every time I go camping it takes two tires, five gallons of gasoline and a box of 500 matches just to roast some wieners........
You might have better luck lighting one of you...........ah never mind.
Al
:doh2: I do hope you're not lighting those tires while they are still on the truck Bop!! :laf: :laf:
Happy April Fools' Day.
" A wise man listening to fool will learn more than a fool listening to a wise man." - Unknown
Ain't that the truth!!!!!!!!!!! :laf: :laf: :laf:
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom. The ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too." - W. Somerset Maugham
For us procrastinators:
"The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow." -Norwegian Proverb
"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." - Alexei Sayle
Hope you all don't mind me adding a little something here. :biggrin: There's even a picture for those that can't read very good. :wink: :roflmao: :roflmao:
just razzin ya Bill!! :biggrin:
Here you go HaMeR:
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
YEP!! :wink:
In memory of a great patriot:
"It's been quite a ride." - Charlton Heston
I'll be out of town this week and don't believe that I'll have access to the Internet. Consequently, I won't be able to post the Quote of the Day this week. I'm going to put Monday's quote on today, but I won't be able to post anything Tuesday through Friday. If anyone else feels like putting something up, please do. I'll be back Friday afternoon and should pick it back up next Saturday. In any event, have a great week.
Pat
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." - Winston Churchill
"The reason there's so much ignorance is that those that have it are so eager to share it." - Frank A. Clark
"Slightly lower than the angels is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes." - Stuart Briscoe
Quote from: coyote101 on April 13, 2008, 07:39:52 AM
"Slightly lower than the angels is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes." - Stuart Briscoe
Yes sir..........couldn't have said it better. However, I know a couple guys here that might be slightly lower than the apes. :nono:
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
- Yogi Berra
"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!" - Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull said that? :confused:
Geeze, sounds like he could've worked for Hallmark. :nono:
"You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives, and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired." - Unknown
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- George Washington
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. - John James Audubon
I will be gone tomorrow, so I'm going to post tomorrow's quote today. Have a great weekend.
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more." - Charles Caleb Colton
Coyote101,
I really like your quotes. I have always enjoyed good ones. I look forward to reading yours every day. Thanks and keep them coming! :congrats:
One of my favorites:
"A mind is like and umbrella, it works best when it's open."
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry Truman
"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free." -Jacques Cousteau
Ohh yeah!
I know about this one. :yoyo:
Quote from: coyote101 on April 21, 2008, 05:13:23 AM
"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free." -Jacques Cousteau
I'm a scuba instructor and have made over 1200 dives. Thus the handle "Frogman". :biggrin:
Almost as much fun as coyote hunting. :wink:
Thanks coyote101 for another great quote. :yoyo:
Jim
That one was for you Jim, I thought you'd like it.
Pat
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion." - William Ralph Inge
"The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare." - Meriwether Lewis
the "good ol' days" of history
"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died." - Sam Ewing
"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." - Dave Barry
I'll be gone over the weekend. Internet access is questionable. So I'm going to post Saturday and Sunday's quotes today.
Have a great weekend, and good luck to the turkey hunters.
Pat
"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man." - Johnny Cash
"We're learning with our experience with wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming how difficult it is to deal with the major predators." - Gale Norton
"Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion." - Albert Schweitzer
"In the middle of the journey of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost." - Dante Alighieri
Hey, I know where this Dante Alighieri guy is coming from. I awake with wood all the time myself.
Sorry I just had to do it. :laf: :laf: :laf:
bootmud
Enjoy it while you can young feller. When you get my age there're are 3 things ya don't wanna do.
#1 Don't pass a bathroom!
#2 Don't trust a fart!
#3 Don't waste a wood when ya get it!
:sad:
Quote from: coyote101 on April 30, 2008, 05:44:08 AM
"In the middle of the journey of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost." - Dante Alighieri
Uh...Umm...Fellas.....if you guys are waking up with dark wood, is his name Bubba?
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud." - Carl Sandburg
"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by." - Stephen Baker
"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together." - Chuck Jones
I'll be gone in the morning, so I'm posting Sunday's quote today. This one is for the call makers - you guys amaze me.
"Make the workmanship surpass the materials." - Ovid
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." - Booker T. Washington
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." - Jeff Cooper
Boy, I really liked those last two Pat! :congrats: :congrats:
"These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." - Thomas Paine
"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear." - Josh Billings
"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs." - Isaiah Berlin
"It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so." - Edwin Armstrong
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes." - Amos Bronson Alcott
"A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort." - Meriwether Lewis
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." -Fred Allen
"I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do." - Scott Foley
"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals." - Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was a German weenie!
The NRA Convention is in Louisville today through Sunday. Here is one from the late Charlton Heston, past President of the NRA:
...I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom... - Charlton Heston
Times for gun owners are going to get tough after the next elections. The NRA does more to protect the rights of ALL gun owners than any other organization. If you're not a member, you should give serious consideration to joining. Your guns may depend on it!
Pat
You got that right Pat!!!!
"War is the course that our enemies have chosen. And I say let us give them all they want." - General William T. Sherman
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine
"There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match." - Joe Clark
Same goes for teenagers :laf:
And women. :innocentwhistle:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." - Gerald R. Ford
And it seems to be ringing true now too.
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia." - Charles Lindbergh
"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier." - Walter Savage Landor
This one goes to my wife, for putting up with me for twenty-seven years:
"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year." - Paul Sweeney
I'll be gone for the weekend so here is a quote for Saturday. I probably won't be back until sometime Monday. I hope everyone has a safe and blessed Memorial Day.
Pat
"Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life." Robin Hayes-
"137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy." - Doc Hastings
"My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama." - Fred A. Allen
"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling." - Andre Gide
That's pretty stupid but you can't help but laugh. :laf:
bootmud
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch
Exactly!!
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"The best armor is to stay out of range." - Italian Proverb
This one is for Bopeye; too bad this doctor isn't still around. Get well soon,bud.
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
-Joey Bishop
"If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name - - if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name." - Zebulon Pike
"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain." - Henry Ford
YEP!!
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." - W. C. Fields
That use to be my excuse to drink liquor and leave water alone....... :eyebrownod:
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope." - John Buchan
Oh, so that's the charm of fishing. :huh:
I always wondered? :wo: :laf:
"My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round." - Buffalo Bill Cody
"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure." - Fred A. Allen
Lol, now thats a good'n right there.
:laf: Lots of truth to that one. :laf:
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"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear." - Dave Barry
haha, there's nutin but truth in that! :laf: :biggrin:
"My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature." - Anthony Bourdain
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." - H. L. Mencken
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." - Walter Anderson
"Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."- Mark Twain
Yeah Rick! :sneer:
For Frogman:
"A Hospital is no place to be sick." - Samuel Goldwyn
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For all the Dads...... Happy Father's Day.
"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children." - Bill Cosby
Quote from: coyote101 on June 14, 2008, 07:11:51 AM
For Frogman:
"A Hospital is no place to be sick." - Samuel Goldwyn
You got that right. But I must say that the nurses and staff treated me well. Thanks for the quote.
Jim
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine
"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense." - Robert Green Ingersoll
Yea, I'd like to tell allllllll my bosses that just about every :laf:day.
"Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun." - Jeff Cooper
amen :bowingsmilie:
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." - Otto von Bismarck
I'm on my way to Florida. Computer access is questionable. I'll post if I can. Take care.
Pat
"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." - Doug Larson
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And hope you have a nice trip be carefull :wink:
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach." - Henry Beston
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." - Elbert Hubbard
:confused: In other words my cool guy persona you all know wouldn't know the butthole persona my co-workers know.
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I've a pretty good hint HaMeR. :eyebrownod:
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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." -Daniel Boone
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw
"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind." - Hugo Black
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty." - Jeff Foxworthy
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington
That is one of my favorite quotes! :biggrin:
Being an overcomer is most important to God. He said in Revelations several times, "To him who overcomes I will give ..." :biggrin:
"I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish." - Jay Cooke
I'm off to Canada tomorrow for a canoe/fishing trip. Ten days away without internet access, so no quotes until late next week, unless someone else feels like putting somthing up. I hope everyone has a great fourth of July holiday.
"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July." - Mac Thornberry
Have a safe trip, Pat.
BTW, Canada does NOT allow handguns. (Don't ask me how I know that. :nono: ) So if you were thinking of taking one with you, don't. :biggrin:
Hope ya catch a bunch of fish!
Semp
Have a good trip & we'll catch you later!! :biggrin:
BTW-- Can you pee on a redfrog for me?? :eyebrow:
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"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing." - Izaak Walton
"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." - Earl Wilson
"A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." - Washington Irving
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." - Bernard Baruch
For Jesse:
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself." - Josh Billings
"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield." - Quintilian
"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear." - Horace Mann
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - Saint Thomas Aquinas
"Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough." - Wilhelm Busch
"I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle." - Sitting Bull
"Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple." - John C. Maxwell
"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived." - Sissela Bok
"We start therefore with a strong presumption that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans." - Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly so often." - Mark Twain
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." - John Lubbock
Amen to that! :congrats:
"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
- Charles Peguy
Exactly!! :rolleye:
"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake." - W. C. Fields
"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once." - William Faulkner
Most of us know the mule under its other name "The Wife" :innocentwhistle:
"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it." - Francis Beaumont
Translator! :confused:
Todd,
Have you ever been in a situation where the BEST thing to say is nothing; but your pride just won't let you do it? So you say something you later regret. And end up "WINNING" an argument that you wish you had never started. Where feelings are hurt, and things are said that can never be taken back. And it all could have been avoided if you had just said NOTHING?
I think it means something like that.
Pat
"Confusious say......" just pickin, that was one great definition Coyote101!
This is a little late today, but I've been gone since yeaterday afternoon.
"Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians." - Yves Montand
"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right." - William E. Gladstone
"Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out."
- Nick Lampson
"Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end." - Malcolm Lowry
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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions." - E. T. Bell
"The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places." - Bryant H. McGill
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." - Sydney J. Harris
"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." - Elbert Green Hubbard
:confused: How ironic :laf:
Just because someone has an eloquent pen and quick wit doesn't necessarily mean he is right. :wink:
"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything." - Clarence Darrow
"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions." - Paul Watzlawick
"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods." - Wendell Berry
"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" - George Will
"I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don't know where to begin." - Stephen Bayne
Quote from: coyote101 on August 15, 2008, 05:06:44 AM
"I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don't know where to begin." - Stephen Bayne
Reminds me of Ladobe. Said here once that he had these new toys & hadn't had time to shoot 'em.
Lord, I miss him! :sad3:
"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance." - Abigail Van Buren
"If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" - Unknown
OUCH!! That quote above me sure did hurt. :iroll:
That is a good one.
"Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up." - Charles L. Allen
"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em." - Darrell Royal
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain
"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other." - Thomas Berger
"We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene."
- Jeff Cooper
Amen Jeff Cooper! :biggrin:
"History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins." - Arnold Toynbee
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone -- all by itself. (Anonymous)
that one i agree whole heatedly with :biggrin:
that one i agree whole heatedly with :biggrin:
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cathryn is that all you ever think about. :innocentwhistle:
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." - Yogi Berra
Semp sent me this one:
"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day." - Harry Truman
"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin." - Henry Cabot Lodge
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - John Lubbock
:yoyo: x2!!
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." - Adolf Hitler
"I've got two daughters, nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." - Barack Obama
Quote from: coyote101 on September 03, 2008, 05:43:31 AM
" punished with a baby." - Barack Obama
What a piece of puke! :mad2:
"Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already. But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all." - Sarah Palin
if she can make thus stick, she's gonna be one helluva VP
"We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears." - John McCain
"It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always." - M. Russell Ballard
I couldn't pass this up.
"Horns make thin soup." - George Ackley
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"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer." - Andy Goldsworthy
"An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from." - Timothy Dexter
"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything." -William Faulkner
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"On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America." - George W. Bush
"We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home." - John McCain
"Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with." - Maurice Greene
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
"At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way."
- Ernest Thompson Seton
"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned." - Herbert Hoover
"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world." - John Muir
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt." - William Allingham
"Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted." - Unknown
:laf: That's a good'n Pat! ;yes;
"I've got all the money I'll ever need............... if I die by four o'clock this afternoon." - Henny Youngman
I can connect with that!!
"If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you." - Louis D. Brandeis
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape -- the loneliness of it -- the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it -- the whole story doesn't show. - Andrew Wyeth
"I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed." - Buffalo Bill
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." - Warren Buffett
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." - Michael Caine
"The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell." - African Tribal Saying
"We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector." - Donald T. Regan
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." - Akhenaton
That is a good one right there :yoyo:
"In fair Weather prepare for foul." - Thomas Fuller
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." - Calvin Coolidge
"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives." - Billy Connolly
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"When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children." - William Feather
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." - John Berry
"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."
- William Hazlitt
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity." - Ulysses S. Grant
"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness." - George Aiken
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it." - Dean Inge
"Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws." - Michael Badnarik
Every genocide in the 20th century perpetrated by the government upon its people was preceded by gun control/gun ban. Russia, Germany, China are but the most obvious examples. The gun ban fanatics say it can't happen here in the USA. History says otherwise.
"One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Vladimir Lenin
"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen." - Robert Lynd
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way." - Josh Billings
AMEN!
"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment."
- Willis Player
"On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver." - William Bartram
Election Day is getting close fellas.
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." - Barack Obama
"It's not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." - Barack Obama
"Mark my words: it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,... Remember, I said it standing here, if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch — we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
- Joe Biden
"It's very simple, supporting the second amendment is like being pregnant. Either you do or you don't. Is it right? It just is. It's the way it works." - Jim Shepherd
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organiser - except that you have actual responsibilities."
- Sarah Palin
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Paul Valery
"To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain." - Louis L'Amour
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -John Quincy Adams
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson
Amen to Thomas Jefferson!!!!
"He who would rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul." - Unknown
How did he get elected?.............Paul voted!
We need to find this Paul :wo:
That should be easy. Just look for Obama bumper stickers. That would be "Paul".
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air." - Eric Sloane
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Thomas Jefferson
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." - Blaise Pascal
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
BINGO :yoyo: Ole Honest Abe would flip in his grave if he saw what his party was doin
"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife." - Daniel Boone
"Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment." -Michael Badnarik
"One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground." - Sonny Perdue
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." -John Burroughs
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed." - William Penn
That is definitely familiar.
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." - Edward W. Howe
"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall." - Thomas Carlyle
Frogman sent me this. It's a good one and appropriate for the times.
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwilling victims of the darkness." - Justice William O. Douglas
Amen Brothers Frogman & coyote101. :congrats: :congrats:
"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." - William James
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of." - Jim Rohn
you know, thats one thing I stress to my kids. great quote.
"You never know God is all you need until God is all you have." - Rick Warren
You've got to love the Founding Fathers.
"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 seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
Thats 2 in a row that really hit home.
"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue." - William Bennett
"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." - Frank A. Clark
^^^^ That one's going on the 'frig'! :wink:
It aint every day you hear something that true anymore!! :yoyo:
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American." - O. Henry
"Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving." - Joseph Auslander
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus
AMEN!!
"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us." - Thomas L. Holdcroft
"Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat."- Anonymous
:laf: :laf: So true!!
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain
"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything." - Henry Ward Beecher
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford
"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today." - John Hoeven
Yes they have & THANKS TO EVERY ONE OF THEM.
"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Prachett
give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will stay drunk for a week
For the call makers:
"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious." - Georg Baselitz
On Pearl Harbor Day:
"As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future." - Joe Baca
God bless the men and women of "The Greatest Generation", and those who continue to serve today.
If you want your spouse to pay attention to every word you say, Talk in your sleep
"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring." - James Whistler
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." - Thomas B. Reed
This one is from possumal, and the timing is perfect:
"The game sure is weird sometimes, but you can't kill 'em if you don't pull the trigger." - Al Prather
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." - Aristotle
So true.
BTW-- I look forward to this thread everyday for the next quote. Thank You!!
Quote from: HaMeR on December 11, 2008, 05:36:53 PM
So true.
BTW-- I look forward to this thread everyday for the next quote. Thank You!!
+1
Jim
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire
It seems that one may have gotten lost in the every day life of a lot of folks.
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't know if this has been posted before, always had a copy when I was in the Army.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth fighting for is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mills
John
That's a great one John. Thanks for posting it.
Pat
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk." - Patrick Murray
"And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms." - William Bradford
"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others." - Homer
This has been one of my favorites for years:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
Now that sure sounds like you Pat! :wink:
No moss on those boots......... :yoyo:
"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"They who forgive most shall be most forgiven." - Josiah Bailey
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." - Sigmund Freud
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" - Charles Dickens
I'll be at the mother in law's through the weekend. Internet access depends on my nephew showing up with a laptop. If I'm unable to get on for a couple of days, I wish each and every one of you a merry Christmas. May God bless you and your families, and remember, He sent the greatest gift of all.
Pat
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luke 2:9-14
Got my hands on a computer for a couple of minutes. MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16
:yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. - Sam Levenson
NO DOUBT!! :biggrin:
And those of us that are wouldn't have it any other way either. :wink: :biggrin:
"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas" - Unknown
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains." - Diane Ackerman
Or the Chili Fest' at the LBL! :shck:
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." - Hank Aaron
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin
Quote from: coyote101 on December 31, 2008, 05:56:58 AM
" find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin
:shck: :shck: :shck:
:holdon: I'L have you know I'm a happily married heterosexual man!!!!!!!
Who would of thought Ben was like that? :confused:
Happy New Year!
"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."
- Brooks Atkinson
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." - Carl Sandburg
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." - Don Herold
"When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part."
- Charles Stanley
"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man." - Orison Swett Marden
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam." - Winston Churchill
That makes me feel better.......... :laf:
Yeah,
Been there, done that!!! :innocentwhistle:
Jim
That sounds like my coyote hunting. :biggrin:
im with what he saild
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Saint Thomas Aquinas
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out." - Bill Hicks
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Dale Carnegie
"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls." - Bruce Barton
"When you can't sleep, don't count sheep, talk to the Shepard." - Unknown
"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed." - Irene Peter
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
Quote from: coyote101 on January 11, 2009, 07:40:44 AM
"When you can't sleep, don't count sheep, talk to the Shepard." - Unknown
Amen! and it works.
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat." - Albert Einstein
"It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing."
- Matthew Henson
"I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood." - Bill Watterson
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
-Doug Larson
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me". - Erma Bombeck
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." - Carl Reiner
I'd have to say that one is right on :roflmao:
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." - Theodore Roosevelt
:sneer: :eyebrownod:
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - David Lloyd George
"When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray, they don't."
- William Temple
"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father." - Orson Scott Card
"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million." - Walt Streightiff
I like that one a lot. :eyebrownod:
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex." - Jack Handey
"We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice." - Frederick Albert Cook
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up." - George Catlin
I'm not sure what state this was, but I've got a pretty good idea!
"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators." - Stephen Wright
:confused: You know how funny that would be if it weren't so true. :rolleye:
:laf: :laf:
They waited until their government came by & lead them off one at a time. :rolleye:
"When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
"There are no orphans of God." - Lyrics from "Orphans of God" by Avalon
It occurs to me now that I have never seen the ice-storm put upon canvas, and have not heard that any painter has tried to do it. I wonder why that is. Is it that paint cannot counterfeit the intense blaze of a sun-flooded jewel? - Mark Twain
"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself." - Unknown
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." - Milton Friedman
"When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference." - Samuel Dash
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." - Frank A. Clark
"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts" - Coleman Cox
"It does not matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop." - Confucius
"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive." - B. C. Forbes quotes
"I'm so miserable without you it's almost like your here." - Lyrics by Billy Ray Cyrus
"Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die." - Unknown
"It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner." - Ben Bergor
"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you." - Herbert Beerbohm Tree
"The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Whoa Pat, that was so deep that I couldn't get ahold of it! :confused: :shrug: :wo:
Quote from: coyote101 on February 15, 2009, 08:52:02 AM
"Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die." - Unknown
too bad it isnt his enemy who will die from the resentment. its he who drinks from the cup of resentment that dies the slow death.
Quote from: vvarmitr on February 19, 2009, 06:39:53 AM
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Whoa Pat, that was so deep that I couldn't get ahold of it! :confused: :shrug: :wo:
vvarmitr,
Its a freedom of speech thing. Kind of like this:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - attributed to Voltaire
Pat
Thanks Pat that makes a lot of sense now. :wink:
I think we know who this one is for:
"I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law; and, even then, if I could have been certain to haunt her - but I won't dwell upon these trifling family matters" - Lord Byron
:roflmao:
Yeah but it could also be any one of us :laf:
Quote"I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law; and, even then, if I could have been certain to haunt her - but I won't dwell upon these trifling family matters" - Lord Byron
Hmmmmm :wo: is that a pen name for Bill Groves?
"You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education." - Jeff Foxworthy
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." - Gilbert Parker
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." - Aristotle
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies." - Dean Acheson
Very true. But the problem we have today is our leaders won't admit that we have enemies.
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." - Plutarch
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." - Margaret Bonnano
"While we try to teach our children all about life; Our children teach us what life is all about." - Angela Schwindt
Quote from: coyote101 on February 27, 2009, 05:41:14 AM
"While we try to teach our children all about life; Our children teach us what life is all about." - Angela Schwindt
Smart woman that one.
"Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die." - Anthony Doerr
"Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer." - Ed Cole
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." - Charles A. Beard
AMEN!!!!
"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood." - Otto von Bismarck
"I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work." - Craig Johnston
"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?" - Anna Neagle
"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility." - Thomas Szasz
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." - Dr. Adrian Rogers
:yoyo:
:sad:
"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists." - Blaise Pascal
"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." - Kin Hubbard
"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right." - Joseph Sobran
WOW! :wo:
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."- Henry David Thoreau
after reading all that im speachless :shck: :shck: :shck:
"An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it." - John Paul Jones
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." - John Paul Jones
man you on aroll :roflmao: :roflmao: :yoyo: :yoyo: :eyebrow:
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." - Thomas Jefferson
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
AMEN!!
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
So Very True
"Don't go ninja-in nobody that don't need ninja-in." - Diamond Dave (The Redneck Ninja)
"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." - John Ruskin
"Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack." - Unknown
"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." - James Baldwin
"I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before." - Mitch Hedberg
"Those who get too big for their britches, will be exposed in the end.... :wink:
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. - Beau Bridges
"We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." - Redd Foxx
"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong." - Wendell Willkie
"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating." - Denis Waitley
"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." - Mark Twain
Plus one on the last 3!! :yoyo:
"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats." - Thomas Sowell
" a day without laughter is a day wasted" ;yes;
Good thought Mandi, I bet you go around with a grin on your face all the time. :yahoo: cc
haha i try. i'm always smiling usually. and sometimes i'll just burst out laughing at something that happened the other day :laf:
Mandi, Good Attitude, its much more pleasant to be around a smiley face anytime. :biggrin: cc
"Ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you, but when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window?" - Unknown
:laf:
A bad day of hunting is better than a good day at work :wink:
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
Why yes it does. :wink:
"Do you think think gun will be ok for the shooting part of the test? A guy cleaned it for me 15 years ago, and I dropped it in the river 1 time 2 years ago on A float trip." - the guy next to me at the CCW class today.
So I cleaned both of his irons, showed him how to field strip the semi, (SAID A PRAYER) , gave him some child safety locks, (SAID A PRAYER) , and took the spot next to him on the live fire line to help him out. (SAID A PRAYER) He passed!
I have done my good turn for the month I think! ~Kiyi (thanks for the advice Semp!)
"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden." - Corrie Ten Boom
"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers." - Doug Larson
families are like fudge...sweet with a few nuts :laf:
"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry." - Unknown
"I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most." - Gary Burghoff
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." :roflmao:
"Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - Unknown
"He who laughs last, didn't get the joke" :nono:
Good Friday is the mirror held up by Jesus so that we can see ourselves in all our stark reality, and then it turns us to that cross and to his eyes and we hear these words, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." That's us! And so we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. We see in that cross a love so amazing so divine that it loves us even when we turn away from it, or spurn it, or crucify it. There is no faith in Jesus without understanding that on the cross we see into the heart of God and find it filled with mercy for the sinner whoever he or she may be. - Robert G. Trache
The thief next to him on the cross simply asked .... Jesus, when your in your kingdom....Please remember me.
Jesus told him.....I speak the truth...today you will walk with me in Paradise.
WOW! Just for believing and asking
Good one Pat Thank you I needed that. :wink:
"The trouble with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?"
But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
"Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.' " - Mark 16:1-7
"We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets." - Douglas William Jerrold
Quote "Chains are worse than bayonets."
Words to live by right there!! Thank You Mr Jerrold!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on
"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it." - Anthony J. D'Angelo
"If it's not fun, you're not doing it right"
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan :bowingsmilie:
"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation." - Farmer's Almanac
No doubt!!! :rolleye:
If knowledge is power I know of a few people that need a disconnect notice
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem
inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far
away, we must make him believe we are near.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. -- Sun Tzu --
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation. - Farmer’s Almanac
:yoyo: :yoyo:
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud
My sexual and emotional maturity must be very well developed. :biggrin:
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious." - Murphy
Quote from: coyote101 on April 20, 2009, 07:34:57 AM
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious." - Murphy
Ain't that the most truthful one yet.
Quote from: coyote101 on April 20, 2009, 07:34:57 AM
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious." - Murphy
I'm handing that one to the Safety Directer at work! ;yes;
:confused: And you never worked one day with the guys I work with. :wink:
"What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half." - Jello Biafra
"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more." - David Stiendl-Rast
AMEN!! :yoyo:
"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." - Ted Nugent
"The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!" - George Washington
Yes Sir!! :wink:
"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back." - Leo Tolstoy
:confused: Isn't that kinda like the FREE health care system for everybody?? :rolleye:
"The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake." - former U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-Wy.)
There is no honest mistake. There is an agenda which includes total control of the masses. 1984 and the New World Order is at our door step.
"Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart." - Winston Churchill
How true!!!
"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying." - Christian Furchtegott Gellert
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.†- Thomas Jefferson
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu
So true. :wink:
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - Elbert Hubbard
:laf: :laf: :laf: Very true!!
"I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better."
- Halle Berry
Anyone contemplating a tattoo should always think about what its going to look like in 20 years. Impulse ink just aint right. I have several friends that regreat the ink they got when they were younger.
My ink? I regreat none of my ink. Every piece has as much meaning to me today as it did the day I felt the needle burn into my skin.
"I like to pretend that everything's alright. Because when everybody else thinks you're fine, sometimes you forget for a while that you're not." - Unknown
"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it." - Knut Hamsun
Purdy much why we hunt & fish isn't it?? :wink:
"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." - St. Augustine
life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself
Mandi,
Are you and George Bernard Shaw good friends?
Jerry
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
Quote from: Hawks Feather on May 12, 2009, 05:54:43 PM
Mandi,
Are you and George Bernard Shaw good friends?
Jerry
whose that? :confused: :shrug:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgebern109542.html
George is the man you quoted - Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. I had the book of quotes when I was a principal and used some of them in newsletters.
Jerry
ohh haha i didn't know that. the quote was on a necklace i bought and i thought it was cool. :biggrin:
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
LIFE is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomarrow
Been there :laf: :doh2:
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations." - Washington Irving
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." - Rick Warren
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." - Mohandas Gandhi
"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been." - George F. Kennan
"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth." - Boris Pasternak
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox." - Lao Tzu
"Today let us also remember the brave soldiers who died for our freedom and our veterans who selflessly stood in harm's way to guard our freedoms." - Michael N. Castle
They are remembered every day in my world. :yoyo:
:yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
Life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Some jack a$$ Is always trying to ice skate up hill
you cant be a good hunter and have attention deficit disorder
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.†- William F. Buckley
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself." - Blaise Pascal
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Desiderius Erasmus
Quote from: coyote101 on May 29, 2009, 06:52:25 AM
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Desiderius Erasmus
That explains why w/ half a brain I feel like a genius at work!
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Thought for the day:
"Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a
drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist."
unknown
"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets." - Yogi Berra
"A good name is rather to be chosen than riches." - King Solomon
"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style." - Steven Brust
"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it." - Samuel Richardson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." - Friedrich August von Hayek
"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" - George Carlin
"It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done." - Ewing
"You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings." - Yeardley Smith
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ~Dave Barry
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." - Josef Stalin
"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity." - Thomas H. Kean
"The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment." -Douglas Jerrold
"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else." - Thomas Carlyle
"A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man." - Cynthia Nixon
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." - Mark Twain
"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both." - Tryon Edwards
"Of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy." - William Sherwood
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment" - Robert M. Hutchins
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it." - Russell Baker
"God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended." - David Wilkerson
"Just because it's not what you were expecting, doesn't mean it's not everything you've been waiting for." - Unknown
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." - John F. Kennedy
"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks." - Donald G. Mitchell
A father is a man that has pictures where his money used to be
"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever." - Daniel Webster
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Yes Sir!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15." - Ronald Reagan
Aint that the truth!!! :yoyo:
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." - Alexis de Tocqueville
"The gene pool needs more chlorine." - Unknown (contributed by Frogman)
Quote from: coyote101 on July 08, 2009, 05:42:50 AM
"The gene pool needs more chlorine." - Unknown (contributed by Frogman)
The Marines are happy to add chlorine to the gene pool where ever they go. :eyebrow:
"Fools are more to be feared than the wicked." - Queen Christina of Sweden
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it." - Knute Rockne
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." - Corrie Ten Boom
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. - Luther Burbank
"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting." -James M. Barrie
"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." - Henry David Thoreau
"Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it." - Archibald Alexander
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"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright
Quote from: coyote101 on July 17, 2009, 06:37:01 AM
"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright
Now that is the truth. :yoyo: :yoyo:
I don't know if I ever told you coyote101 but I enjoy these daily quotes a bunch :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: I especially like the way you kinda/sorta find one to fit the arguement of the day.
"I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing." - Cliff Fadiman
"The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of the world and great men of the world come out from their studies and their laboratories and their palaces, and cry, "Away with this man! Away with him!" The most bitter hostility which many of the learned men of this day exercise in any direction they exercise against Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour of the world."
- Thomas De Witt Talmage
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" - Ralph Marston
"I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it." - Rex Hunt
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -James Madison
Yes there is Mr. Madison!! Yes there is!! :wink:
I'm off to Canada for some canoeing and fishing. Should be back on the 4th of August. I may have internet access at the motel tonight and on the 3rd, but maybe not. Probably no quotes until then, unless someone else wants to post some. In the mean time, take care and wish me luck. - Pat
"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home." - Thornton Wilder
Good luck and you may be surprised where you find the internet in Canada :shrug: Heck I even get it once in a while :innocentwhistle:
Hope you have a safe trip and catch lots of fish. We'll be waiting for the pics.
Dont worry about us.....Have a great time....take yer camera! :yoyo: :yoyo:
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - Doug Larson
welcome back pat! :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
Welcome back Pat!! Great return quote too!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
Welcome back, Pat! Now whar are the pics of the canoeing trip? :biggrin:
Wow you don't know what you got 'til its gone :sad: Welcome back.
I missed em too Barry!! :wink:
Quote from: coyote101 on August 05, 2009, 05:56:16 AM
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - Doug Larson
Pat.. welcome home, you were missed. ;yes;
Thanks for the welcome home. Its good to be back. The weather wasn't as nice as last year, but it was a good trip and I should have some pictures soon.
"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent." - Dave Barry
Quote from: coyote101 on August 06, 2009, 05:55:52 AM
"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent." - Dave Barry
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Ain't the truth! :nono:
"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." - Orison Swett Marden
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again." - Samuel Johnson
I will take no pleasure in destroying you
Rich Higgins To uncle jay 8/09
"I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible." - Jeff Miller
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers." - Seneca
"I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you." - Tom Watson
"The moose are gone, and their bones lie under the sand in the soft coal which was the forest by the estuary, thousands of years ago." - Henry Williamson
"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more." - Gordon Brown
Quote from: coyote101 on August 18, 2009, 05:42:43 AM
"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more." - Gordon Brown
That's a fact Jack :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
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"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds." - Aristotle Onassis
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." - George Bernard Shaw
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.â€
Joseph Goebbels
:yoyo: & :yoyo: !!
The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.
Quote from: George Ackley on August 20, 2009, 07:28:03 AM
The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.
I'm agreeing with this only to a point George and the point is at -40F :wink:
"I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile." - Viggo Mortensen
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Quote from: coyote101 on August 21, 2009, 05:40:12 AM
"I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile." - Viggo Mortensen
I wonder what he would have said about Cabelas :wo: :puke:
"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen." - Maimonides
............. or keyboard. :wink:
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: @ ^^^^^^^
Amen Semp! :eyebrownod:
"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau
This one was suggested by HaMeR.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes." - Ross Perot
Quote from: coyote101 on August 27, 2009, 05:42:28 AM
"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes." - Ross Perot
UNBELIEVABLE
Quote from: coyote101 on August 27, 2009, 05:42:28 AM
"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes." - Ross Perot
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If knowledge is power, our government needs a disconnect notice slagmaker
"A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it." -Jim Jones
:holdon: Is that "Here have some Kool Aide Brother" Jim Jones? :huh:
"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working." - Robert Half
And in the case of obama he started his retirement long before he started working.
"The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today." - Mackenzie King
"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." - Thomas Sowell
I'll be gone for the Labor Day weekend. Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday.
Pat
"Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf." - Aldo Leopold
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. - Edward Abbey
better to come home from work to a box, then to come home from work in a box
"A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights." - Lance Morrow
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: That would certainly do it eh.
Why yes it would!! :yoyo:
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." - Samuel Butler
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - Henry Van Dyke
Get busy livin or get busy dieing. Morgan Freeman-- Shawshank Redemption
"The worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it." - Tom Tancredo
"The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen." - Girolamo Savonarola
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - John Quincy Adams
"The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment." - Judd Gregg
Amen!! :yoyo:
Not to butt in Pat, but I thought this was pretty good & wanted to share it ...
Quote of the day:
'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.
If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit.' Unknown
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time." - Dave Van Ronk
:wo:
So is it better to say "Nice call" or to say nothing at all? :wo:
:roflmao: Wow, I was just thinking how ironic is this? Apparently I'm not the only that picked up on that. :laf: :laf:
Don't read into it fellas. A simple "nice quote" was all I was going for. :eyebrow:
Pat
Quote"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." - Samuel Butler
Hey Semp......................"Nice Call" :roflmao:
Quote"nice quote"
:roflmao:
"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?" - Mason Cooley
Flattery always gets me that question from the wife, and insults...................well lets just say I won't be getting what it is I want. :innocentwhistle:
"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking." - Dorothy L. Sayers
^^^^^ that oughta be your sig' line Pat.
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"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." - Pamela Hansford Johnson
What a view that would make. :biggrin:
"The nation that makes a great distinction between it's scholars and it's warriors will have it's thinking done by cowards, and it's fighting done by fools." - Thucydides
Amen
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." - John F. Kennedy
"Anyone who has ever heard it when the land was covered with a blanket of snow and elusively lighted by shimmering moonlight, will never forget the strange, trembling wolf cry." - Unknown
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey
And when the time is right,,,,, :wink:
I normally only put up one quote, but with what is going on in our country......
"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." - Adolf Hitler
"Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply." -Stanley Fish
I used this one before it just seems frighteningly appropriate again:
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." - Abraham Lincoln
"To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes." - Tony Snow
"The youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up." - Charles M. Schulz
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I gotta remember that one! ;yes;
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde
Very appropriate. :yoyo:
I'm glad Al & his Wife were unharmed. :yoyo:
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." - John A. Simone, Sr.
Yeap! ;yes;
"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."- George Washington Carver
Amen brother
"It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." - Barbara Kingsolver
"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger." - Confucius
"When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God." - Fred Bear
"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote." - George Jean Nathan
Case in point>> November '08!! :rolleye:
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers." - Lord Byron
Does anyone else think that Lord Byron was thinking of our current president?
"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
"For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously." - George Gissing
Man I feel that one more each day. I guess that means I'm getting old doesn't it??!! :yoyo:
If the truth offends you, by all means avoid it.
"We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight." - James Larkin
"There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me." - Daniel K. Moran
I don't find that all the time :shrug:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." - President Gerald Ford
Yes it is.
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent." - Sigmund Freud
Uh oh :doh2:.
In other words you are unique, just like everyone else.
"The real archer when he goes afield enters a land of subtile delight. The dew glistens on the leaves, the thrush sings in the bush, the soft wind blows, and all nature welcomes him as she has the hunter since the world began. With the bow in his hand, his arrows softly rustling in the quiver, a horn at his back, and a hound at his heels, what more can a man want in life?" - Saxton Pope
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
Apparently John Ruskin wasn't from Ohio. :doh2:
I have to agree with Mr Ruskin. :biggrin: Hell at my age I'm just happy to wake up & see the weather every day!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying." - Mason Cooley
"Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair." - Doug Coupland
"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor." - Edward Albee
"I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details." - Brooke Langton
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Adrian Rogers, 1931
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." - Arthur Golden
"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old." - Benjamin Franklin
You just had to post THIS ONE ^^^^ today didn't ya??!! :rolleye:
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Purely coincidence Glen. :innocentwhistle: :innocentwhistle: :innocentwhistle: :innocentwhistle:
Pat
I know what ya mean Ben! :rolleye:
:roflmao: @ Pat!!
Oh man, If ever there was a true truth in the world. That would be it.
Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse. - Don Addis
"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors." - John Calvin
Funny ya mention that. Me and Al was just discussing that and this board just a few minutes ago.
What? No Stan Lee quotes today?
“I always felt that if I had super-power, I wouldn't immediately run out to the store and buy a costume.†Stan Lee :biggrin:
"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together." - Earl Nightingale
"Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on." - Elton Gallegly
Amen brother. ;yes;
"I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
Quote from: coyote101 on October 27, 2009, 05:45:56 AM
"Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on." - Elton Gallegly
For you union members please don't take this the wrong way as I am not anti-union, nor am I pro-union. Why is it that the unions are not opposing all the illegal workers. The government has estimated at least 12 million illegals are here, if only half of them are working that's six million jobs Americans could have. Another example here is that produce is grown in mexico and shipped to our port of entry in the past it was off loaded and put in American trucks driven by insured American truckers and then driven to the final destination by American drivers. Now the mexican drivers can take it to it's final destination. Why aren't the teamsters speaking out? Likewise with the carpenter union, illegal framers are making upwards of $15 to $20 per hour.
Indeed! The unions should be throwing a fit about the "Cap and Trade" legislation too.
Jim
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt
[, illegal framers are making upwards of $15 to $20 per hour.
iirc, ..they pay them by the linear foot.. the faster you work, the more you get paid. so, a piece of crap they build.
"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there." - Franklin P. Jones
"It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past." - Claude Nicollier
"In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case." - Paul Weyrich
AMEN!!
"As an American I am less shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, than I am that America gave him the White House ............. based on the same credentials."
- - Newt Gingrich
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them." - Charles Caleb Colton
:yahoo: :yahoo: :roflmao: :roflmao: ;yes;
"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once." - Rene Descartes
Great quote and oh so true. :wink:
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank You,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
How true! :readthis:
"Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn't take Scouting for granted. You can do nothing more important for young people today than to continue, or begin, your support of Scouting. I have never met anyone with devoted Scouting experience who was not a solid citizen, a loyal friend, and a patriot. We need more of them." - Wallace G. Wilkinson, former Governor of Kentucky
Amen.
Eagle scout and a scouting supporter.
As a youth I was headed in the wrong direction. Hanging out with some unsavory type people then I found scouts. It really turned me around.
"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
- John Burroughs
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." - Ronald Reagan
I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that he said that :shrug:.
Quote from: pitw on November 07, 2009, 06:24:39 AM
I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that he said that :shrug:.
Barry,
I can't find where he said that exact quote, but I suspect it was in one or more of the many speeches he gave as President. I did, however find this interview he did in 1975 with the editor of
Reason Magazine in which he expresses the sentiment, although not in the exact words. Here is the pertinent part of that interview. You can read the entire interview by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page:
REASON: Governor, could you give us some examples of what you would consider to be proper functions of government?
REAGAN: Well, the first and most important thing is that government exists to protect us from each other. Government exists, of course, for the defense of the nation, and for the defense of the rights of the individual. Maybe we don’t all agree on some of the other accepted functions of government, such as fire departments and police departmentsâ€"again the protection of the people.
REASON: Are you suggesting that fire departments would be a necessary and proper function of government?
REAGAN: Yes. I know that there was a time back in history in which fire departments were private and you insured your house and then had an emblem on the front of your house which identified which company was responsible for protecting it against fire. I believe today, because of the manner in which we live, that, you can make a pretty good case for our public fire departmentsâ€"because there are very few ways that you can handle fire in one particular structure today without it representing a threat to others.
REASON: How would you distinguish "socialized" fire departments and "socialized" fire insurance companies? Or would you be in favor of socialized fire insurance also?
REAGAN: No. Nor am I in favor of socialized medicine. But, there’s bound to be a grey area, an area in there in which you ask is this government protecting us from ourselves or is this government protecting us from each other. I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves......reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan (http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan)
Sorry Pat. :doh2: I believe he said it I guess but not that he thought it up to say :iroll:.
On the same lines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x59wNGHe6iI
We need another Reagan now. This is an old speech but it rings so true today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoeuh-EGj7s
"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." - Izaak Walton
"Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry." - Charles Osgood
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+1
And that is exactly what they have been doing ever so slowly since carter was in.
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H. L. Mencken
"On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind." - Dan Lipinski
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"So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out." - Jim Hightower
"Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do." - Richard Nelson Bolles
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." - Helen Keller
"A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied." - Baltasar Gracian
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P. J. O'Rourke
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." - Francis Bacon
I'm the 1st man & I work with the 2nd!! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." - Moliere
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Unknown
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+1
Yep that one there is a humm dinger, No doubt.
I like those last two '101!
Jim
If you walk away now and do not fight you will look back,,, you will give up all your days to pick up your sword and fight for your Freedom.
William Wallace
We have given them a near perfect Republic. Will they,, in the enjoyment of the material abundance we have left them,, lose the Freedom?
Thomas Jefferson at the signing of the Declaration of Independance.
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials." - - Newt Gingrich
Quote from: coyote101 on November 21, 2009, 04:11:37 AM
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." - George Bernard Shaw
Perception: Why an artist puts sandals on an Angel
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by." - James M. Barrie
Pat I enjoy these quotes of the day and look forward to reading them each day. I am not the only one that enjoys them I have to admit I have been stealing them from you and posting them on my Face book page.
THANKS PAT keep them a-comin lots of people depend on you for their daily quote. :biggrin:
+1 to^^^^!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
:eyebrownod: What they said. :eyebrownod:
"Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun." - Tiger Woods
"I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things." - Alan Coren
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: @ ^^^^!!
They are called "PRO STAFF". :biggrin:
:roflmao: :roflmao: @ ^^^^!!
Ya ever notice how Pat's quotes are so according to things being discussed lately?
You do that on purpose Pat, or is it pure coincidence?
Actually, dont answer that :nono: It's funner this way. :wink:
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Oscar Wilde
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Happy Thanksgiving!
"Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good..." - Psalm 100:4, 5a
"A child educated only in school is an uneducated child." - George Santayana
"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him beyond the veil." - John Taylor
"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing." - Alexander Pope
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse." - John Stuart Mill
"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults." - Louis Nizer
Oh man I could run with that :eyebrownod:
Wow I gotta remember that :biggrin:
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives." - Scott Adams
That is so very true. :laf:
"It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct." - Jack Kingston
Ain't that the truth. Didja see JohnP's post in the Members only section?
"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph."
~Unknown Author~
"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys." - Emma Bull
"The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible." - Frederick Soddy
"Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future." - Joe Baca
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." - Robert A. Heinlein
"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors." - Howard Koch
"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it." - Helen Rowland
"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country." - Will Durant
Why heck yea, just look at Refrog and PM :roflmao: :roflmao:
"He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides." - George Schultz
Wow, that reminds me of a few people.
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." - Bill Gates
"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about." - H. P. Lovecraft
"Beware of geeks bearing formulas." - Warren Buffett
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"The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten." - Meriwether Lewis
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - James A. Baldwin
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness." - William E. Gladstone
I had a dog named Gladstone :shrug: He was smart as a whip too :biggrin:
"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery." - Bill Watterson
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet." - Ann Landers
"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life." - Marlo Thomas
I agree.
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington
Man is that the truth :laf: :laf: :innocentwhistle:
:eyebrownod: :biggrin:
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less."
Brendan Francis.
"New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." - Mark Twain
"Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive." - W. C. Fields
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless." - Aleister Crowley
"To me, old age is always ten years older than I am." - John Burroughs
"One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself." - Edgar Watson Howe
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain
"I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather." - Holly Hunter
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." - Francesco Guicciardini
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" - Henry David Thoreau
"Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing." - Henry Jacobsen
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." - Orison Swett Marden
"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress." - Peter Stone
"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese." - Jeremy Paxman
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Voltaire
were do you get these at took me 4 hours to read em alll!
Come February 6th,2010 I'll have been reading them for two years!! Damn you read fast!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
Welcome to the Forum jdbp!! :biggrin:
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." - Kenneth Williams
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"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." - Johannes Sebastian Bach
"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." - Denis Waitley
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quote from: HaMeR on January 14, 2010, 05:02:51 PM
Come February 6th,2010 I'll have been reading them for two years!! Damn you read fast!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
Welcome to the Forum jdbp!! :biggrin:
The kids were takin a nap! :sleep:
Ed was on call to so I was at home anyway
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." - Theodore Roosevelt
:confused: So instead of banning guns we should ban democratic voters?? :eyebrow:
"With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy seat, it's not the democrat's seat, it's the People's seat." - Scott Brown
Why yes it is. :yoyo:
In November we need to show a bunch of them that that their seats are the "Peoples seats"!!
Jim
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard
Who was Elbert Hubbard, besides a smart man? :innocentwhistle:
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly." - Jonathan Swift
"I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there." - Reese Witherspoon
"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it." - John D. Rockefeller
"If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end." - Sara Jeannette Duncan
"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood." - Lou Holtz
"I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am." - Henry J. Kaiser
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: Boy do I ever :laf: :laf:.
"I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does." - Joe Garagiola
"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling." - Olivia Wilde
Very good quote. I can see where it would apply to the LBL trip.
Quote from: coyote101 on January 30, 2010, 07:17:06 AM
"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling." - Olivia Wilde
OH YEAH.
I think somebody is PUMPED! ;yes;
:laf:
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." - Greg Anderson
Greg Anderson died a virgin :sad:
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Confucius
"One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to." - Paul Parker
"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure." - Irving Wallace
Sure are hitting on Barry purdy good here lately!! :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod:
"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health." - Robert Louis Stevenson
OH YEAH.
Good one, Pat!!
We did a lot of that at LBL!
JIm
True, true. BS is good.
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.â€
-- Author Unknown
"Pictures help you to form the mental mold." - Robert Collier
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." - Hilaire Belloc
That made this trip as clear as mud then :laf: :laf:.
"Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?" - Peter Matthiessen
"And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc." - Duane G. Carey
OH YEAH.
"And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself." - Joshua Slocum
And I think Barry has done so nicely. :yoyo:
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it." - Pope John Paul II
But ya gotta use it to keep it up to date.... :biggrin: :laf: :laf:
There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. - Chris Brasher
Yeah the East German female swim suits :laf:.
Quote from: pitw on February 16, 2010, 07:23:13 AM
Yeah the East German female swim suits :laf:.
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"They played well. There wasn't much we could do... I think we're a good team but in curling anything can happen. One shot can make or break the game." - Jamie Johnson
:whew: :whew: I finally made it through all 51 pages !! Lots of great quotes there coyote101. Thanks.
"Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune." - Daniel Boone
"There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win." - Muhammad Ali
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
Hard to believe he could've written that over 200 yrs ago, and not in the last 2 months!
"Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't." - Patrick Murray
"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day." - O. A. Battista
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." - Fred Allen
"Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses." - Caleb Carr
Appropriate enough Pat. :wink:
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." - Daniel Webster
"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it." - Honore de Balzac
"When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it." - Allen Klein
"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them." - Hugh Prather
"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day." - Nicolas de Chamfort
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele Commager
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." - Samuel Adams
That time is most definitely now.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it." - Pericles
"I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription." - Finley Peter Dunne
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." - Aeschylus
GOOD JOB PAT. I ALMOST PEE MY SEAT :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service
"No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey." - Unknown
Quote from: coyote101 on March 11, 2010, 05:53:54 AM
"No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey." - Unknown
:alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: I better not comment on this. Don't want to get banned after just joining. :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech." - Christopher Lasch
"Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." -Dandemis
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise." - William Butler Yeats
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college." - Bill Vaughan
Actually it makes him over qualified. :eyebrownod:
"Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert." - Robert Brault
"Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless." - Kenneth Baker
"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property." - Joan Rivers
Quote from: coyote101 on March 16, 2010, 05:44:52 AM
"Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert." - Robert Brault
That one is going on the 'frig. ;yes;
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." - Mark Twain
I have been tobacco free for just a little over a year. Feels great. The cravings have all but gone. Everynow and then I want a cigarette but its easier and easier to get past the craving.
"A half truth is a whole lie." - Yiddish Proverb
"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country." - Lyn Nofziger
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"From where I am sitting much of the country now sees the President the way I have seen him since the campaign. He is an ambitious leftist, with little understanding of economics, and with far-reaching goals to create significant and irreversible growth of government and redistribution of wealth through dramatic changes in tax, regulatory, and spending policies." - Charles W. Calomiris
"Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it." - Stanislaw Lec
"The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year." - Phyllis Schlafly
^^^^^^ No kidding
"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell
I think we have finally figured this one out .
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win." - George Bernard Shaw
"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever." - Charles Lamb
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned." - Clayton Moore
"The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted." - D.L. Moody
Theif: Jesus? while you are in your Kingdom......will you remember me?
Jesus: Today you will walk with me in Paradise.
"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass." - Nicolas Boileau
"A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded." - Tyne Daly
"Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find." - William Least Heat-Moon
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
Amen to that one!! :highclap:
"The fool wonders, the wise man asks." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." - Richard Bach
"I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight." - Donald G. Mitchell
"What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly." - Mignon McLaughlin
Sounds like ya been talking to the Inmates, but it would also apply to marriage I guess. :wo:
"The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on." - Robert Brault
"There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire." - John C. Collins
Quote from: coyote101 on April 14, 2010, 06:22:06 AM
"There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire." - John C. Collins
That there was a mouthful :bowingsmilie:.
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." - Calvin Coolidge
"The day will happen whether or not you get up." - John Ciardi
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." - Henry David Thoreau
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quote from: coyote101 on April 18, 2010, 07:55:14 AM
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can tell he didn't live around Metiskow, Eh :biggrin:.
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." -William Faulkner
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals." - George Orwell
Oh make us feel guilty Pat :laf: :laf:
Don't feel guilty Jim. In the words of Mel Brooks, "Its good to be king."
Pat
"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man." - Arnold J. Toynbee
Quote from: coyote101 on April 21, 2010, 05:38:50 AM
"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man." - Arnold J. Toynbee
Kinda/sorta sounds like a woman :confused:.
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing." - Henry Kravis
I ain't got much money either :pout:
"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." - Plutarch
Damn straight Pat!! :biggrin:
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists." - Charles Dickens
"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice." - Henry Taylor
"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them." - Josh Billings
"You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it." - Jeff Foxworthy
Lol, you think I don't pay attention. :alscalls: :biggrin:
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Lawson
Yep!!
Yes sir, and the other half won Darwin Awards. :biggrin:
..... or the Nobel Peace Prize! :iroll: :iroll:
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"Creditors have better memories than debtors." - Benjamin Franklin
"When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty." - Bobby Jindal
^^^^^^ Aint that the truth
Amen!
"Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives." - Gwen Cooper and Evelyn Haas
Pretty neat little trap was that one Pat :laf: :laf:. My wife checks up on this site too so I sure ain't commenting here :whew:.
Now I see why you added that pic of your wife and her fish. :innocentwhistle: :laf:
"The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless." - Nicolas de Chamfort
:laugh2: :laugh2:
I'm sorry but that one hit me funny :innocentwhistle:
"Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley." - Ann Landers
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"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Lao Tzu
I take it this Lao Tzu fellow never met a woman eh :innocentwhistle:.
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." - Clarence Darrow.
"I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'" - Jim Carrey
"Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'" - Michael N. Castle
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." - Charles Darwin
"Friends, like money can be spent foolishly". Me, today.
"I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land." - Robert Menendez
"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land." - Rod Parsley
"I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important." - Oliver Reed
I can sympathise with that.
"Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it." - Payne Stewart
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." - George Bernard Shaw
"It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always." - M. Russell Ballard
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Quote from: coyote101 on May 17, 2010, 05:41:44 AM
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible." - Rutherford B. Hayes
"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
:wo: Kinda like wishing your Life away over snowy weather & Spring not getting here soon enough. :rolleye:
"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it." - Victor Hugo
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers
:alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :highclap: :highclap: :highclap:
"Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again." - F. P. Jones
Oh how true that is. :rolleye:
:laf: :laf:
"There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools." - Nicolas de Chamfort
"Don't let schooling interfere with your education." - Mark Twain
"We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation." - Marsha Blackburn
"To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself." - Allen Klein
"The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots."
- Randy Vader
"It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming." - John Steinbeck
"Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars, and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?" - Peg Bracken
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone." - Javan
"A good hunting partner is harder to find than a good friend." - Rick Ross
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below." - Daniel Boone
"We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate." - Kin Hubbard
still reading these after 3 days
Quote from: jdbp on June 09, 2010, 03:08:36 PM
still reading these after 3 days
Just another 793 days to catch up to me :laf: :laf:. These things are great and do want to thank Pat for taking the time :bowingsmilie:.
"If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers." - Edward Abbey
I hope Semp didnt see this :sad3: :laf:
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"He who remains calm while those around him panics probably doesn't know what is going on." - Anonymous
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." - Robert Frost
This Frost fellow obviously never drove on ice :innocentwhistle:.
Maybe not, but that is still a very good point he makes. :eyebrownod:
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Irish Proverb
"You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind." - S.A. Sachs
"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go." - Unknown
"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland
"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did." - Anonymous
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy." - Bryant H. McGill
"There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved." - Donald Johanson
Very fitting quote. It could have been posted elsewhere on here and fit right in.
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle
"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered." - Stanley Kubrick
"At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it." - Yukio Mishima
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses." - Johann Kepler
"For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love." - Wendell Willkie
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Senator Barry Goldwater
Its so hard to keep up with you!
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr
"I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me." - Lexa Doig
I'm off to Canada for a week. I may have internet at the motel in Eau Claire tonight, but I'm not sure. So no quotes for a while unlesss someone else feels like putting something up. Either way wish me luck and I'll be back on the evening of the 11th.
Pat
Good luck, Pat! A fishing trip?? Catch a bunch! Say hello to Barry for me too. :laf:
I pray for less rain this year for ya! Have fun and of course.......... dont forget the camera...... :eyebrow:
Have a great trip Pat and for the love of Pete keep your mouth shut at our border crossing station :innocentwhistle: unless of course you want them to clean the van for you like I did :biggrin:.
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, But by the moments that take our breath away" Tollie Jordaan
"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home." - Rumi
Good trip eh :yoyo:
Welcome back Pat! :yoyo: :yoyo:
"I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long." - Bobby Bowden
Quote from: coyote101 on July 13, 2010, 05:49:18 AM
"I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long." - Bobby Bowden
All things come to he who waits too long.
"My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long." - Buffalo Bill
Gone again eh :laf: :laf: :laf:.
"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies." - Adrienne Gusoff
What'd you do now :wo:. Break an axle :innocentwhistle:.
"We listened for a voice crying in the wilderness. And we heard the jubilation of wolves!" - Durwood L. Allen
"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven." - John Lubbock
"Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck." - Joel Chandler Harris
"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men." - George Jean Nathan
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty." - James Monroe
"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms." - Aristotle
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. - Chief Joseph
"Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys." - Dorothy Salisbury Davis
"Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical." - Ron Lewis
Got a new job eh :laf: :laf:.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." - Thomas Jefferson
Good to see you're back at the wheel. I was missing these.
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
And that there is the truest of the true :laf: :laf:
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote from: coyote101 on August 05, 2010, 08:01:45 AM
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought;
Oh no they ain't. :nono:
Quote from: pitw on August 05, 2010, 08:04:16 AM
Quote from: coyote101 on August 05, 2010, 08:01:45 AM
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought;
Oh no they ain't. :nono:
You're not the first one to think that!
"A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed." - Bennett Cerf
I told you guys alscalls was blessed, but noooooooo :huh:
Quote from: coyote101 on August 05, 2010, 08:06:23 AM
Quote from: pitw on August 05, 2010, 08:04:16 AM
Quote from: coyote101 on August 05, 2010, 08:01:45 AM
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought;
Oh no they ain't. :nono:
You're not the first one to think that!
:alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
He got ya there Barry!!!!
"Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise." - Unknown
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." - Epictetus
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." - Abraham Lincoln
"Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny." - Kathryn Carpenter
"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does." - Joey Adams
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money." - W. C. Fields
Quote from: coyote101 on August 14, 2010, 07:01:06 AM
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money." W. C. Fields-
Now that there is one to live your life by :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie:.
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever." - Margaret Cho
^^^^ WOW :whew:
Is he pickin on you Barry :laf:
"Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you." - William Feather
"One should always play fair when one has the winning cards." - Oscar Wilde
I'm betting he never played with a full deck :eyebrow:.
"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town." - George Carlin
"Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party." - Jimmy Buffett
:bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie:
"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there." - P. J. O'Rourke
"The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that." - David Soul
Quote from: coyote101 on August 21, 2010, 08:37:35 AM
"The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that." - David Soul
:bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie: And that right there boys is one of the best quotes I've ever saw :biggrin:.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. - Theodore Roosevelt
Amen
AMEN!
"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." - Dan Rather
"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." - Aesop
"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please." - Tom T. Hall
You don't QUIT work you just stop punchin the clock and gettin a paycheck :rolleye: :rolleye:
I really like that quote Sir. :yoyo: :yoyo:
Tom T. Hall ............. Ahhhh that brings back some old memories .......... :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go." - Layne Staley
I know where you're going Pat. I seen your avatar!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
A little late today, but what the heck, I've been fishing!
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?" - Unknown
My first official day of retirement.
"When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income." - Chi Chi Rodriguez
Is she only half as happy as she was yesterday? :shrug:
:laf: :laf: :laf:
:congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
"Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold." - Jerry Vale
That's why a always put a shot of orange juice in my Southern Comfort when I was feeling a little under the weather. :laf: :laf:
"Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.†- John Akers
Another Post-A-Note goes on the frig' w/ that one. :wink:
"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor." - Ulysses S. Grant
“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.†- Win Borden
"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend." - Doug Larson
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity." - Chris Rock
"Cold weather makes people stupid and that's a fact." - Early Grayce, Kalifornia
Quote from: Semp on September 08, 2010, 06:33:58 AM
"Cold weather makes people stupid and that's a fact." [/i]
Poor Scott :rolleye:
Coming from a Kalifornian makes it really profound. :iroll: :sarcas3: :loco: :sleep2:
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." - W. Somerset Maugham
"Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war." - Allan Massie
"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended." - George W. Bush
"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." - George W. Bush
"The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test." - George W. Bush
"I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes." - George W. Bush
"Bring them on." - George W. Bush
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." - Billy Graham
"Easy reading is damn hard writing." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Fortune's wheel never stands still, the highest point is therefore the most perilous." - Maria Edgeworth
"If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people." - Jim Eason
Quote from: coyote101 on September 15, 2010, 08:30:59 AM
"If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people." - Jim Eason
Is this for the weight loss thread? :innocentwhistle:
Quote from: Hawks Feather on September 15, 2010, 08:41:49 AM
Quote from: coyote101 on September 15, 2010, 08:30:59 AM
"If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people." - Jim Eason
Is this for the weight loss thread? :innocentwhistle:
:alscalls: So that's why I got so many "friends" on Facebook! And I thought it was because of my manly handsomeness. :alscalls:
"As I get older I notice the years less and the seasons more." - John Hubbard
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain
Quote from: coyote101 on September 18, 2010, 07:27:46 AM
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain
Amen to that. I think that's why you guys have such a hard time putting up with me. I do set a good example, don't I? :innocentwhistle:
"I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough." - Les Dawson
"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." - Robert Orben
"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Friendships are discovered rather than made." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill
"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now." - John F. Kennedy
Quote from: coyote101 on September 28, 2010, 08:34:21 AM
"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now." - John F. Kennedy
I have run into a few businessmen that were real Cork-Soccers
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." - William Lloyd Garrison
"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut." - Channing Pollock
"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again." - Hal Borland
Someone's gotta give Hal Borland a shot of testosterone, a gun or bow, and get him out in the woods. Then he'll know what October is for. :biggrin:
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully. - Scott Alexander
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces." - Matthew Henry
"The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind." - Dennis Prager
"I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me." - Eubie Blake
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A Edison
Man do I see that on a daily basis. :rolleye:
"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted." - Carolyn Heilbrun
"The light we walk in is always brighter after time spent in the darkness"
George W Ackley
October 9 2010
"God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer." - Giacomo Casanova
The thief on the cross next to Jesus said...... Jesus, when your in your Kingdom, will you please remember me.....
He said in return...... Today you will walk with me in paradise.
WOW....... All he had to do was believe.
"Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all.†- Romanian Proverb
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance." - W. Clement Stone
WTHB! You retire from this too Pat? :shrug:
Good grief I need my fix!!! :sad3:
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aaaaaaahhhhhhh! Much better. :biggrin:
Thanks Pat.
:laf:
"If everything is under control, you are going too slow." - Mario Andrett
^^^ that one went on the 'frig. :laf:
"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor." - George Bernard Shaw
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." - Alexandre Dumas
"If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"A picture is worth a thousand words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of a thousand words can be adequately described with pictures." - Alan Perlis
Quote from: coyote101 on October 23, 2010, 06:18:09 AM
"A picture is worth a thousand words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of a thousand words can be adequately described with pictures." - Alan Perlis
SEE ;yes;.
"Never wound a snake; kill it." - Harriet Tubman
"I cannot command winds and weather." - Horatio Nelson
Quote from: coyote101 on October 26, 2010, 07:26:00 AM
"I cannot command winds and weather." - Horatio Nelson
:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
"He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass." - Howard Kande
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Robert Olson
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was a hard core Socialist who concluded that private ownership of land and its exploitation for personal profit was a form of theft, and advocated equitable distribution of land and natural resources and their control by governments intent on promoting the commonwealth. He hated Democracy. He hated hunting and was a staunch vegetarian.
He also was in favor of selective killing of the "unfit" in society and believed in eugenics (the improvement of the human race through selective reproduction).
He would have been proud of Adolf Hitler. :rolleye:
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." - P. J. O'Rourke
“Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.†- Bill Cosby
That's what I always said! ;yes;
:nofgr: Neither said the realist. :hahaha: It's just another damn glass that needs washed!! :laf: :laf:
"When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept." - Unknown
Ain't that the truth!!
“Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun." - Jeff Cooper
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature." - Abraham Lincoln
Quote from: coyote101 on November 08, 2010, 07:23:04 AM
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature." - Abraham Lincoln
And we all know how he ended up :eyebrow:.
"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"When you throw dirt, you lose ground." - Texan Proverb
Quote from: coyote101 on November 10, 2010, 07:16:20 AM
"When you throw dirt, you lose ground." - Texan Proverb
When you live on 380 feet of sand and the good land is that far down you have a lot to lose before you gain.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect." - Steven Wright
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - Winston Churchill
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." - Bertrand Russell
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
Quote from: coyote101 on November 18, 2010, 08:12:23 AM
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
Good Idea! ;yes; :wink:
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way." - J. Carter Brown
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." - Henry Ward Beecher
“The mouth of a cannon is safer than the mouth of a woman scorned.†- Unknown
"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'Thank you?" - William A. Ward
YEP!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it form another person's plate - Dave Barry
:laugh2: :laugh2:
"The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again." - Milton S. Eisenhower
1.All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
2.Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
3.Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
4.Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.
- Jeff Cooper
"It should come as no surprise to any of us that the solution to ending bickering in families is to talk to one another more often without blaming, making judgments, or insulting one another." - Donald C. Medeiros
"Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
"If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon." - Johannes Brahms
"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution." - Victor Hugo
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. - Francis Bacon
"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." - Richard Roeper
"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism." - Barry Goldwater
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
"Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future." - Joe Baca
Pat, thanks for the quote of the day series. I seldom say anything but read them and appreciate them.
"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid." - Dean Koontz
Quote from: coyote101 on December 08, 2010, 12:46:13 PM
"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid." - Dean Koontz
And I am living proof of that one :argh:
:nofgr: Barry!! Leave a little credit in there for me. :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod: I have my moments as well. :laf: :laf:
Quote from: HaMeR on December 09, 2010, 08:33:37 AM
:nofgr: Barry!! Leave a little credit in there for me. :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod: I have my moments as well. :laf: :laf:
DITTO!!!!!! and there aint no cure for it! :nono:
"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." - Edith Sitwell
:confused: Uuhmmm Barry?? I never said I was proud of it. Did you? :shrug:
:nono: :nono:
Not proud. Just admitting to it is all. :laf: :laf:
Methinks thou dost protest too much. :biggrin:
Pat
Quote from: coyote101 on December 09, 2010, 07:17:04 PM
Methinks thou dost protest too much. :biggrin:
Pat
You hit a subject near and dear to our hearts[and heads] :laf: :laf:
Glen I'm not proud of it but have never been afraid to admit to it :nono:.
Quote from: pitw on December 09, 2010, 07:22:24 PM
Quote from: coyote101 on December 09, 2010, 07:17:04 PM
Methinks thou dost protest too much. :biggrin:
Pat
You hit a subject near and dear to our hearts[and heads] :laf: :laf:
Glen I'm not proud of it but have never been afraid to admit to it :nono:.
:laf: :laf:
"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." - Robert Burton
Was he trying to say a pen wins a sword fight?
Nope. :nono: :nono:
I think hes trying to say........ Shut up AL! :laf: :laf:
"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent." - George Henry Lewes
In other words, know when to keep your mouth shut. :laf:
Quote from: Semp on December 11, 2010, 08:07:26 AM
In other words, know when to keep your mouth shut. :laf:
That wasn't part of the school curriculum here :doh2:.
Quote from: pitw on December 11, 2010, 08:13:25 AM
That wasn't part of the school curriculum here :doh2:.
The evidence of that is apparent and overwhelming. :alscalls:
"Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!" - Dwight L. Moody
AMEN!
"Bad weather always looks worse through a window." - Tom Lehrer
Quote from: coyote101 on December 13, 2010, 07:50:23 AM
"Bad weather always looks worse through a window." - Tom Lehrer
This fellow never was in a blizzard on a horse saving cows was he?
Quote from: pitw on December 13, 2010, 08:03:57 AM
Quote from: coyote101 on December 13, 2010, 07:50:23 AM
"Bad weather always looks worse through a window." - Tom Lehrer
This fellow never was in a blizzard on a horse saving cows was he?
Musta been a Southerner more south then me huh Barry?? :laf: :laf:
Quote from: coyote101 on December 13, 2010, 07:50:23 AM
"Bad weather always looks worse through a window(1)[/font][/font]." - Tom Lehrer
Yeah, there should be a footnote after his quote.
1 As long as you have the option of staying in.
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill
:nono: You are far from being uneducated, Pat. :nono:
:confused: I think he's writing a book for us me Semp. :sad3: :sad3:
"No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture." - Learned Hand
"I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
God's will my friend...... Were thinking of ya.
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather
"Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity." - Anna Comnena
But it cant defeat a seed.......
Country life is wear its at
"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to." - Robert H. Schuller
Quote from: coyote101 on December 19, 2010, 01:57:58 PM
"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to." - Robert H. Schuller
Dab nabbit Pat. :argh: I just read this one to the wife and after the ensuing conversation I find out I'm eating popcorn on the couch again :doh2:.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." - Thomas Sowell
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." - Thomas Jefferson
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell
You can't stay young forever but you can be immature for the rest of your life. "unknown"
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Dudley Moore
Quote from: coyote101 on December 23, 2010, 08:02:44 AM
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Dudley Moore
I highly doubt that one. :noway: I bet cops cause more accidents than many other items in the rearview as the drivers get so distracted they forget to look forward :hahaha:
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" - Charles Dickens
I'm off to the mother in law's for a couple of days. Internet service is questionable at best. If I am unable to get on Fins and Fur while I'm gone, I wish everyone here a Merry Christmas.
Pat
Merry Christmas Pat!!!!!
I am off to make a snow angel.............
Pat, Merry Christmas to you and yours. :highclap:
Also many thanks for bringing to us the quote of the day, everyday. :yoyo:
Did you see the size of that snow angel? :biggrin:
QuoteI'm off to the mother in law's for a couple of days. Internet service is questionable at best. If I am unable to get on Fins and Fur while I'm gone, I wish everyone here a Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too Pat.
You have to find away to post up the quotes of the day Pat. My Facebook friends depend on it. If I didn't copy your quotes over to my page there daily I wouldn't have anything to post.
Nature abhors a vacuum. - Unknown
Here you are CCP. :wink:
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. - Theodore Roosevelt
"Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place." - Tecumseh
I wave at 98% of the people I meet, possibly just so I know they are awake :laf:.
"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body." - Jean Cocteau
Talk about blaming the other guy - even when it's your fault, it's not your fault. Could he be a lawyer? :alscalls:
"Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated." - Cynthia Nelms
Quote from: coyote101 on December 29, 2010, 10:13:12 AM
"Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated." - Cynthia Nelms
Barry,
Is this true?
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them." - Peter Ustinov
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.†- Bill Vaughn
In most cases both are drunk! :eyebrownod:
Be careful out there on amateur night. :wink:
"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols." - Thomas Mann
20 minutes after midnight last night we had tunderstorms move through so your quote is invalid. We also had a canon and an AK47 going off, there were no pistols invollved.
"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief." - John Calvin
"Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough." - Josh Billings
The women I think can attest to the first part better than men :eyebrow:.
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - Honore de Balzac
"What else have we but memories? For all life is divided into two parts: anticipation and memory, and if we remember richly, we must have lived richly.'' - Louis L'Amour
"There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?" - Danny DeVito
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events." - Adrienne Rich
"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." - Lord Chesterfield
Quote from: coyote101 on January 10, 2011, 07:48:33 AM- Lord Chesterfield
Who died with a full hand of fingers :laf: :laf:.
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." - Ronald Reagan
Amen
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." - Lyndon B. Johnson
"The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey." - Ernest Thompson Seton
"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon." - Charles Buxton
"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said." - Alan Greenspan
"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." - Saint Augustine
"The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller
"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going." - George Carlin
No that was last night in the Members Forum :alscalls:
"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears." - Louis D. Brandeis
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." - Warren Buffett
"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable." - Kin Hubbard
"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine." - Dwight L. Moody
"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." ~ Kathleen Thompson Norris
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." - Edward Gibbon
"I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes." - William Tecumseh Sherman
"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this." - Abraham Lincoln
"It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway." -Teilhard de Chardin
"I am a drinker with writing problems." - Brendan Behan
"I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do leaveth my rifle to the next thing who finds it, Lord hope he be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killeth the bear that killeth me. Anyway, I am dead. Sincerley, Hatchet Jack." - Hatchet Jack in Jeremiah Johnson
"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." - T. S. Eliot
"If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse." - Thomas Fuller
"Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another." - Vince Lombardi
"I think what helped make this fun was the camaraderie of doing it with good friends. We have already said we would like to get together and do it again." - Anne Armao
"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." - Robert E. Lee
“If you call one wolf, you invite the pack†- Bulgarian Proverb
"I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual." - Mia Kirshner
Quote from: coyote101 on February 11, 2011, 08:33:09 AM
"I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual." - Mia Kirshner
"Gonna buy 5 copies for my mother" - Dr. Hook
:laf:
"The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go." - Nicole Kidman
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
And THAT is the downfall of a lot of idiots :alscalls:
Quote from: FinsnFur on February 13, 2011, 08:37:32 AM
And THAT is the downfall of a lot of idiots :alscalls:
Experience can teach you a LOT.......
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing. :wo:
Quote from: FOsteology on February 13, 2011, 01:55:33 PM
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing. :wo:
Thought that was an arsehole? :shrug:
Nope, arseholes don't pretend nor play like fools and idiots. They're known for being mean, crass, ornery and going straight for the jugular.
Unequivocally different all together...... apples to oranges.
"Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!" - Jay Leno
Quote from: FOsteology on February 13, 2011, 09:45:58 PM
Nope, arseholes don't pretend nor play like fools and idiots. They're known for being mean, crass, ornery and going straight for the jugular.
Unequivocally different all together...... apples to oranges.
I thought the edit thingy was changed..... :confused: oh well I musta got my jugular ripped when I werent lookin.... :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
Are you saying or implying that you're a fool or an idiot? If so, it came from your keyboard not mine. Follow along with the postings since Jim, and you'll see I was on topic. :biggrin:
Interesting Valentine's trivia:
During the Middle Ages, the belief that birds chose their mates on St. Valentine's Day led to the idea that boys and girls would do the same. Up through the early 1900s, the West Virginia hill people in the eastern United States thought that birds and rabbits started mating on February 14, a day for them which was not only Valentine's Day but Groundhog Day as well.
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
Valentine's Day is big business. Consumers will spend an average of $77.43 on Valentine's Day gifts this year. E-commerce retailers expect to rack up about $650 million in sales of food, candy, flowers, and other Valentine's Day gifts. Of that amount about $350 million will be for gifts and flowers and another $45 million will be spent on food (including chocolate) and wine.
Quote from: FOsteology on February 14, 2011, 07:31:58 AM
Are you saying or implying that you're a fool or an idiot? If so, it came from your keyboard not mine. Follow along with the postings since Jim, and you'll see I was on topic. :biggrin:
Just the internet........ :shrug:
Quote from: alscalls on February 14, 2011, 12:28:25 PM
Quote from: FOsteology on February 14, 2011, 07:31:58 AM
Are you saying or implying that you're a fool or an idiot? If so, it came from your keyboard not mine. Follow along with the postings since Jim, and you'll see I was on topic. :biggrin:
Just the internet........ :shrug:
Exactly. So don't be thinned skinned. :wink:
"A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller." - Edward Hoagland
"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men." - Kin Hubbard
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency." - Eugene McCarthy
Ouch :laf:
"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most." - Emily Dickinson
"What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse." - German Proverb
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." - Blaise Pascal
"What is permissible is not always honorable." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
True but Mark Antony cut off Cicero's hands and head anyways.
"I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again." - Lesley Garrett
"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about." - Miguel de Unamuno
Don't blame me :readthis:.
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." - Creighton W. Abrams, Jr
"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them." â€" Col. Chesty Puller; November 1950, during Chosin Reservoir campaign, Korean war
"I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle!" -Ralphie
"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." -J. K. Rowling
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William Gibbs McAdoo
Dating is like deer hunting...you wait it out til a keeper comes along :laf: made that one myself :yoyo:
Quote from: mandi48 on February 28, 2011, 09:24:23 AM
Dating is like deer hunting...you wait it out til a keeper comes along :laf: made that one myself :yoyo:
It's a good one! :highclap:
Quote from: Okanagan on February 28, 2011, 11:27:27 AM
Quote from: mandi48 on February 28, 2011, 09:24:23 AM
Dating is like deer hunting...you wait it out til a keeper comes along :laf: made that one myself :yoyo:
It's a good one! :highclap:
A very good one
hahaha thanks! :biggrin:
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller
^^^^ >> Hang in there Mr JohnP!!!!!!!!!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age." - Charlie Sheen
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government." - Cal Thomas
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire
Or not.
"It's so hard to pin anything down. A cougar or puma is like a UFO with four feet." - John Lutz
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell
Now that ^^^^ is a fact :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
Anything that is done on the basis of collectivity in opposition to basic individual needs and desires, can be said to be of the herd type. Or action without honest reflection contributes to a mass produced muck of ideality that looks super silly to the free spirit unhinged of the supercilious tendrils of social network ethics and all bogus guilt trips the menacing Moloch seeks to drag thy spirit down with.
:wink: @ ^^^^!!
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." - William Hazlitt
When I loose intrest I get bored.- Bear
"There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair." - Arthur C. Brooks
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" - Satchel Paige
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down." - T.S. Eliot
Somebody has been a bit busy these last 6 months huh?? :laf: :laf:
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein
"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off." - Abe Lemons
That weighing on ya Pat. :laf:
"Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions." -Joseph Chatfield
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wow is there a lot of people in the wrong on the web :whew:.
"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also." - Julius Caesar
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." - James C. Dobson
I did. I just hope Diane did too. :biggrin:
"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for." - Marian Wright Edelman
"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin." - Dave Barry
In their defense, looking is fun :biggrin:.
"If you work for free, you'll never be out of a job!" - contributed by Dave Paul (HuntnCarve)
"They had it before you, they had it during you, they'll have it when you're gone"...." - Al McGuire on Kentucky Basketball Tradition
AMEN !!!
:doh2: I thought for sure that was gonna be a welfare quote Pat. Thanks for putting the author in there. :yoyo: :yoyo:
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes
:confused:
:shrug:
:innocentwhistle:
I think it's great they are gonna show the game on TV tonight at 10PM. Too bad they didn't have a 2nd week to get it scheduled. maybe they could have showed it at 3AM instead. :argh:
There's a game tonight? Who's playing? :shrug: I guess I'll have to check it out. :biggrin: :biggrin:
Pat
Tonight is the night that
KENTUCKY THUMPS OHIO! :biggrin:
Semp i like the way you think.
Man I thought the olympics were over.
Sounds like there is a way for the FnF board to make some funds from this :eyebrow:.
Quote from: riverboss on March 25, 2011, 10:51:05 AM
Semp i like the way you think.
+1 :highclap: :highclap:
"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not." - Charles Barkley
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." - C. S. Lewis
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." - George Washington
"The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence." - V.C. King
"Whiskey's too tough, champagne costs too much, vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, will help me explain, as a matter of fact, I like beer." - Tom T. Hall (lyrics to I Like Beer)
It makes me a Jolly good feller,I like beer,it helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel better :yoyo:
Every song Tom T. Hall wrote was a hit :yoyo:
"I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it." - John Thune
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." - Walter Winchell
Quote from: coyote101 on April 04, 2011, 08:12:36 AM
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." - Walter Winchell
That's a fact as well as a quote :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well." - Alfred Adler
"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff." - Ambrose Bierce
I'm sure most can relate to that one!
Quote from: coyote101 on April 07, 2011, 08:49:34 AM
"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff." - Ambrose Bierce
Or over the wife's vacuum cleaner and into her sewing kit. :doh2: :doh2: :rolleye: :rolleye: :madd: :madd: :madd:
"Some corners are best left uncut." - Jim Champion
Dang thats a deep one. Hard to belive our own JC came up with that one.
Quote from: slagmaker on April 08, 2011, 09:50:21 AM
Dang thats a deep one. Hard to belive our own JC came up with that one.
He was talking about food when that revelation hit him. lol :eyebrownod:
"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." - Sun Tzu
"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." -John Ruskin
:alscalls: I just noticed I made the charts a couple days ago :laf: :congrats:
Quote from: coyote101 on April 10, 2011, 08:00:21 AM
"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." -John Ruskin
I am VERY familiar with that concept!
"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things." - Lech Walesa
"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." - attributed to Frederick II of Prussia
"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels." - John Calvin
"History is written by the victors.†- Winston Churchill
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." - William Tecumseh Sherman
"A wild turkey is a bundle of nerves walking around in the woods, looking for something to be scared of." - Unknown turkey hunter
"He that can have patience can have what he will." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you shoot where he IS, you hit where he WAS." - Unknown quail and rabbit hunter
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is follu, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mightly effort to save it... Besides, where are your man and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car, hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and your determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail." - William Tecumseh Sherman, speaking in December 1860
"Sherman was not much on a field of fight, but he was a superb strategist. He would set things up so that he would win no matter what happened on the field. Sherman was maybe the first truly modern general. He was the first one to understand that civilians were the backers-up of things and that if you went against civilians, you'd deprive the army of what kept it going... He had the real notion. He saw from the very beginning how hard a war it was going to be. And when he said how hard a war it was going to be, he was temporarily under suspicion of insanity and then brought back when they decided that maybe he wasn't so crazy after all." - Shelby Foote
"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die." - John 11:25-26
"You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life." - Doug Coupland
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin
"I've developed a new philosophy...only dread one day at a time." - Charlie Brown
"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents." - Winston Churchill
"Justice has been done." - Barack Obama
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." - Alexander Graham Bell
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." - Charles Dickens
"Honor to the soldier, and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same cause." - Abraham Lincoln
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?" - Patrick Henry
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.†- Aaron Siskind
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." - Rudyard Kipling
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." - Benjamin Franklin
^^ :eyebrownod:
"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved." - Russell Lynes
"It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can." - R. Lee Ermey
"Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds
and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. It's the guy cooking
the burger that should get the credit, not the Clown." Unknown !!
"Wolves have howled at the moon for centuries, yet it is still there." - Unknown
Maybe the Moon likes the sound? :shrug:
"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?" - Judith Viorst
"Opinions have vested interests just as men have." - Samuel Butler
"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine." - Dwight L. Moody
"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." -Helen Keller
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." - Frank Tyger
"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." - Mark 13:32
"The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery." - Ralph Hodgson
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Never injure a friend, even in jest." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress." - Judith Martin
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it." - W. Somerset Maugham
"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it." - James Boswell
"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free." - Ronald Reagan
Nice! :eyebrownod:
"The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem." - Aaron Kilbourn
"They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save." - Francis Marion Crawford
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill
"If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective." ~ Ted Nugent
"There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." - Frank Zappa
"The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it†- Mark Twain
"I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore." - Billy Idol
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." - Blaise Pascal
"Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with." - Maurice Greene
Well said Pat Mr. Green!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
"The most terrifying sound in nature is not the roar of a charging lion, nor the whistle of a descending bomb; rather it is a click when you expect a bang." - Peter Hathaway Capstick
And on a scale of 1 - 10 it rates an 11 on the butt pucker factor! ;yes;
"If a man is really intelligent, there’s practically nothing a good dog can’t teach him." - Robert Ruark
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." - Klaus Kinski
"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.†- Jim Bishop
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow." - Benjamin Franklin
"The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese." - Unknown
I'm in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on my way to our annual canoeing and fishing trip in Canada. I'll be away from computers and phones till Saturday or Sunday next week. No quotes from me till then. You guys take care and wish me luck.
Pat
I hope that you: catch more than you can keep, stay dry, have the right temperatures, enjoy the canoe, enjoy the time with family/friends, relax, rest up, take lots of pictures, and report when you return.
Have fun :yahoo:
Jerry
Well if you're gonna do all those things Jerry said then I can certainly wait a while til you get back. :biggrin: :biggrin:
Best of Luck be safe & have fun Pat!!!!!!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
No quotes :sad:
You be safe Pat...enjoy yourself, and bring us some pics back :sneer:
In Pat's absence and to make him appreciated when he returns.
“This project is so important, we can’t let things that are more important interfere with it.†Dilbert
QuoteIn Pat's absence and to make him appreciated when he returns.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, 'What the hell happened?" ~Larry
“How long is this Beta guy going to keep testing our stuff?†Dilbert
“No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We’ve been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I’ll let you know when it’s time to tell them.†Dilbert
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
-Unknown
A backyard barbecue draws two things . . . . flies and relatives.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
I can tell that MANY people are missing coyote101
You are doing just fine, Jerry. :wink:
Yeah, your helping us get by :laf:
"I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness." - Zane Grey
Thanks Jerry.
Welcome back Pat!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Jerry & Dave done a fine job. :biggrin:
"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true." - Charles Dickens
It takes no wisdom to spend money. Everyone does it. It requires wisdom to spend time wisely.
Glad to see you back Pat. We're waitin for some pics. :biggrin:
"The limitations you are willing to except, establish the boundaries of your existance." - Erwin Raphael McManus
"You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." - Jerry West
"Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"I like my women just a little on the trashy side." - Confederate Railroad
"A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia." -Mercy Otis Warren
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Then clear on a flute of purest gold, a sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales he told, and marvelous music made." - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
"A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance." - Herbert Spencer
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." - Thomas Sowell
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"We are punished by our sins, not for them." - Elbert Hubbard
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself." - Epictetus
"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it." - Patrick Young
"As he gets closer, it will dawn on you that there is simply no place you can go to avoid his six tons of murder. He can easily outrun the fastest sprinter with his deceptive shuffle, and if you’re thinking about climbing a tree, don’t bother. He’ll either knock you out of it personally or toot up a couple of chums to share in the festivities. If 12,000 pounds of screaming, screeching, infuriated elephant bearing down on you has somehow rattled your nerves to the point that you miss that six-by-four-inch spot on his forehead, or your bullet fails to penetrate the two-and-one-half feet of tough, spongy, honeycombed bone that protects his brain, then you may as well forget it. The most talented mortuary cosmetician in the world couldn’t rewire you so your own mother would know if you were face up or down." - Peter Hathaway Capstick
“Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest antelope, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or antelope â€" when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.†â€" African Proverb
"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along." - James L. Buckley
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway
I messed the dates up on the last two days. Oh well.
I fixed it for ya :biggrin:
Thank you sir.
Pat
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality." - Thomas Aquinas
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." - Ralph W. Sockman
"I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is." - Fred Allen
Your late Pat...you musta got busy today :laf:
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." - Horace
Or loosely translated to English...
It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country
It is better to make the other guy die for his country.
"The deer hunter habitually watches the next bend; the duck hunter watches the skyline; the bird hunter watches the dog; the non-hunter does not watch." - Aldo Leopold
"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up." - Unknown
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." - C. S. Lewis
"If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?" - Steven Wright
Absolutely not. But when it left I'd wave good bye :eyebrownod:
"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh." - Robert Bolt
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." - Stephen Covey
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Sun Tzu
"Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor." - Brock Yates
Quote"Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor." - Brock Yates
Just couldn't help yourself could you Pat. :innocentwhistle: I knew you were snickering when you first saw that quote. :laf:
No kidding Richard? You're a plumbing contractor? Who knew? :shrug: What a coincidence! :innocentwhistle:
Pat
"Retirement takes all the meaning out of weekends." - Unknown
"I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred shitheads." - Colonel Charlie Beckwith
"I don't know whether the world is run by smart men who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
Quote from: coyote101 on August 02, 2011, 08:46:58 AM
"I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred shitheads." - Colonel Charlie Beckwith
Charlie was the first Commander of the Delta Force. In fact it was his insistence that such as force be establish to combat the terrorist/hostage threat. I should have jotted down all his other sound bites, some where rather good. Like when he was discussing a General officer he really didn't care about. "He will go through life continually pushing on doors clearly marked pull."
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." - Aeschylus
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." -Ronald Reagan
"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think." - Billy Graham
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right." - H. L. Mencken
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir
"Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little." - E.W. Howe
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value." - Alan Greenspan
And that, unfortunately, is the cold hard truth. :rolleye:
"Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself." - Unknown
"There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims." -Thomas Sowell
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Charles R. Swindoll
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage
"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - -Beverly Sills
^^ YES SIR!! ^^ :yoyo: :yoyo:
DEFEAT ~ For every winner there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them. - Unknown
"More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather." - James Earl Jones
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.†- Ted Geisel
"I dont mind, cause you dont matter"- Slag :huh:
"Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it." - Adam Clarke
"Sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyper verbosity and prolixity†- Unknown
Uh I understand most of the quotes but that one your gonna have to explain so my simple mind can understand :wo:
Be succinct!
Pat
Oh, but interminable, stentorian screeds of exemplary erudition are exhilarating! I shall not succumb to the barbarous boorishness of an existence without such sesquipedalian delights. :biggrin:
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." - William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution." - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Robert Darwin
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederic Bastiat
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." - Laurence J. Peter
"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens." - William Beveridge
"The way to a man's heart is through his chest." - Unknown
"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions." - Ted Koppel
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Winston Churchill
"Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children." - President George W. Bush
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Benjamin Franklin
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott
"Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter." - Unknown
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan
"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin
"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss." - Alanis Morissette
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“ Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves." - Norm Franz
If you can't say Amen to that just say Ouch!
"If retirement was an Olympic sport I could make the team!!" - Frogman
:alscalls: :alscalls: Why did I not see that one coming? :congrats:
"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Just saw the retirement quote. That's awesome, what an honor, I'm in some really good company here!! Thanks 101!
Jim
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response." - Sam Nunn
"...they're pitching to two different strike zones," - Tony La Russa
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem." - Dean Acheson
"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." - Mark Twain
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." - Jack Benny
"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America." - Johann Most
"My testimony was truthful and accurate." - Eric Holder
:madd: :mad3: :mad3: Pat!!! Now I need a new keyboard from that last quote!! :alscalls: :alscalls:
eric hitler holder doesn't know the truth anymore than his damn boss. :laf: :laf:
"He may or may not have perjured himself, but he certainly failed to answer my questions and [Rep.] Jason Chaffetz’s questions about what did he know..." - Darrell Issa
"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." - Voltaire
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." - Scott Adams
"It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything. " - John Bacon
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege." - Charles Kuralt
"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can." - Cary Grant
"The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving." - Tim McCarver
:alscalls: MMMMMMMMmmostly true
"Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
Ya gotta love Yogi's quotes.
Jerry
"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system." - Milton Friedman
"I never said most of the things I said." - Yogi Berra
Quote from: coyote101 on October 20, 2011, 02:21:49 PM
"I never said most of the things I said." - Yogi Berra
I resemble that quote.
Jerry
"As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream." - Steve Forbes
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need." - Epicurus
"All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full." - King Solomon
"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce." - George Byron
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Quote from: coyote101 on October 25, 2011, 12:14:59 PM
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Yep, bad law breeds disrespect for all law.
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." - Lord Chesterfield
I seldom respond to these quotes, but I do love reading them. It would be a sad day when Coyote101 quit putting them up. Keep up the good work Pat. :highclap:
Quote from: Bopeye on October 26, 2011, 10:13:20 AM
I seldom respond to these quotes, but I do love reading them. It would be a sad day when Coyote101 quit putting them up. Keep up the good work Pat. :highclap:
+1 I too would miss them and appreciate them being posted.
Jerry
I fully agree. So many times the quote pertains to recent political events (or at least that's my perception on them). Thanks Pat.
"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice." - Bo Bennett
"There is an unwritten rule that states if the quote is posted by Coyote101 it must be good advice." - Jerry Latta ;yes;
"What happened today, I just think you had to be here to believe it," - Tony La Russa
"Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?" - George Whitefield
"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids." - Robert Brault
"Before all else, be armed." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first." - Mark Twain
"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." - Thomas Jefferson
"I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you." - Andy Rooney
"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit." - Wade Davis
"The world has lost a great champion." - Muhammad Ali
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"What can I say, I'm no longer the coach." - Joe Paterno
"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave." - Martin Luther
"All things must change to something new, to something strange." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be." - Golda Meir
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable." - Max Lerner
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." - Honore de Balzac
"No ticky, no washy." - Iris @ Canon
ROFLMAO!! :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
Ok, I paraphrased it but I think that is what she meant. :biggrin: :biggrin:
Pat
you nailed it :eyebrownod:
"Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted." - Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
"A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood." - Charlotte Davis Kasl
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." - Will Rogers
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. - H. U. Westermayer
Yes the pilgrams were very thankfull for the foods and meat that the indians helped them with. The indians on the otherhand were not so thankfull for the things that the pilgrams gave them. Things such as small pox, chicken pox, ghonorrea, syphillias and then a few years later the sacking of the indian villages in the area.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. - Demetri Martin
Boy aint that the truth. I got pics that cycle through my screensaver, of the kids as they grew up, that still put a lump in my throat every time I see em, cause you know those days are gone.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.- George Burns
"So look up ahead at times to come, despair is not for us. We have a world and more to see, while this remains behind." - COL Nick Rowe
“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that ‘violence begets violence.’ I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensureâ€"and in some cases I haveâ€"that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.†â€" Jeff Cooper
I second that motion :congrats:
I third the motion. :biggrin:
BTW, congrats on your 3000th post, Pat! You are officially a FnF Blather-er extraordinaire. :laf:
"Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much, says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them." - Washington Irving
Good quote. An Indian friend from up the BC Coast told me that his people have a saying: "The man who speaks all of his words is boring."
"I want to be in Kentucky when the end of the world comes, because it's always 20 years behind ". Mark Twain
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way." - Dale Carnegie
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job." - Samuel Goldwyn
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - - Mark Twain
That has to be the greatest quote posted yet.
"I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies." - Mark Burnett
"Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost." - Kevin Patterson
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Khalil Gibran
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world." - Thomas Guthrie
"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." - Aristotle
"If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days." - John Aubrey
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
And what?
He's been lost ever since? :shrug:
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." - Jerry Seinfeld
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." - Nelson Mandela
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." - Alex Haley
"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys". - Harmon Killebrew
:eyebrownod: I like that
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.†― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true." - Catherine Crowe
Thats deeeeep.
Hang on I gots to read that again.
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment." - Steve Albini
"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool." - Joseph Roux
Where art though Pat? :sad: :confused:
Quote from: FinsnFur on December 28, 2011, 07:08:43 PM
Where art though Pat? :sad: :confused:
He is on Christmas Vacation and will be back next year - 2012.
Jerry
"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I spy coyote101 :eyebrownod:
Quote from: coyote101 on December 29, 2011, 08:06:03 AM
"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote from: Hawks Feather on December 28, 2011, 07:12:59 PM
he will be back next year - 2012.
Jerry
That Pat is one hell of a guy.
"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go." - Jim Rohn
:eyebrownod: Yep, the choice is yours, I like that one.
"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." - Unknown
"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past." - Henry Ward Beecher
I tried that one year, they shut my power off :doh2:
"Not only did turkeys originate Murphy’s Law, they have rewritten several of its postulates. After what they make go wrong has gone wrong, and then gotten worse, they really get down to work and create trouble." â€" Tom Kelly
"There are two distinct classes of men…those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.†- Thomas Paine
Where does unemployment come in there at Pat?? :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod:
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
"Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby." - Robert Brault
Wake up little suzie? :biggrin:
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." - Michel de Montaigne
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison
I got the day of the week wrong; it should read Sat. 01/07/12
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." - Roger Babson
"We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live." - Gordon Smith
"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday." - Alexander Pope
"When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you." - Michael Winterbottom
"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid." - John Dewey
"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only." - Joseph Wood Krutch
Now you got me wondering if thats why I like winter so much. :confused:
It's a lot less to take in, everything seems so much simpler. :eyebrow:
"When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks." - Patricia Neal
"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing." - Victor Hugo
"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can." - Sydney Smith
"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson." - Tom Bodett
:eyebrownod: I like that
"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." - Helen Keller
"If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks." - Sidney Lanier
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." - Mahatma Gandhi
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Ninety percent of the game is half mental." - Yogi Berra
"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.†- William Rotsler
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place." - Stanley Weiser
"I think what helped make this fun was the camaraderie of doing it with good friends. We have already said we would like to get together and do it again." - Anne Armao
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.â€Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway†John Wayne
"ΜΟΛΩΠΛÎ'Î'Ε" - King Leonidas
Pat, you didn't go and buy that keyboard off Jim, did you?
"The walls of Sparta were its young men, and its borders the points of their spears." - King Agesilaos
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. - Richard Armour
:wink: I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. John Wayne
John Wayne was your dad? :bowingsmilie: Or are you John Wayne? :confused:
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." - Benjamin Disraeli
Quote from: Semp on February 18, 2012, 07:26:05 AM
John Wayne was your dad? :bowingsmilie: Or are you John Wayne? :confused:
:innocentwhistle: The Quote is From : John Wayne In my time he had a few good Quotes. :laf:
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.†- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.†- Dylan Moran
"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think." - Alfred Austin
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." - Charles Dudley Warner
"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit." - Morgan Freeman
"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." - Herb Caen
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.[/size][/size]
"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.†- Lou Holtz
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced." - Albert Einstein
“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.†- Charles M. Schulz
...as long as you can get back to sleep. :doh2:
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a bag of "medicinal" weed, Air Jordan sneakers and he votes Democrat for a lifetime...
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.†- Will Rogers
"It's Not a Toomah!!!" - Arnold Schwarzenegger (Kindergarten Cop)
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much." - Ronald Reagan
"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots." - George Herbert
"If the word quit is part of your vocabulary, then the word finish is likely not."- B.G. Jett
"A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested." - Bill Cosby
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." - J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government." - Gerald F. Lieberman
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Stupid people are ruining America." - Herman Cain
Amen to that!
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson
"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it." - Doris Day
"It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not." - Mignon McLaughlin
"A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now." - Scott Cook
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow
"We have all forgot more than we remember." - Thomas Fuller
"You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something." - Mitch Hedberg
"I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children." - Mark Udall
"We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world." - Brad Thor
"If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything." - Patsy Cline
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." - Margaret Atwood
"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own." - Herbert Samuel
"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes." - Charley Reese
"When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball." - Larry Bird
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father." - Pope John XXIII
"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide." - Mickey Mantle
"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism." - Graham Greene
“This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.†- Barack Obama to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race." - James Earl Jones
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball." - Bobby Knight
"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther." - J. P. Morgan
"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there." - Clarence W. Hall
The resurrections says, "It ain't always gonna be like this."
"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter." - Euripides
"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley
Thats true :eyebrownod: LOVE is a decent pair of split ring pliers
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells
"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy." - Daniel Webster
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object." - Patrick Henry
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent." - Napoleon Hill
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously." - Henry A. Kissinger
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire." - Alexander Pope
"I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age." - Jimmy Buffett
I printed this one, and have it taped on the desk.
"I want to be all used up when I die.". - George Bernard Shaw
"As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." - Albrecht Durer
“Isn’t it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day and ends with cries of “May Day!�†- Unknown
"People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing." - Walter H. Judd
"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend." - Saint Augustine
"Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away." - James 4:14
"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." - Lillian Dickson
"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence." - Garry Trudeau
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." - Epicurus
"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal." - Jimmy Breslin
Hmmmmmm sounds like the American government. :argh: :argh: :argh:
"Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother." - Gregory Nunn
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new." - Og Mandino
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." - Kin Hubbard
..or buy a truckload of reloading equipment :biggrin:
Quote from: FinsnFur on May 18, 2012, 05:22:51 AM
..or buy a truckload of reloading equipment :biggrin:
He said "double", not "half". :eyebrownod:
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?" - Lee Iacocca
"There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it." - J. William Fulbright
"It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." - lsabel Waxman
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"The real heroes were my buddies who died during the battles." - Ira Hayes
"It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can." - R. Lee Ermey
"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed by the results." - George S. Patton
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem." - Abraham Lincoln
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." - Benjamin Franklin
"I will thank God for the day and the moment I have." - Jim Valvano
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." - Richard M. Nixon
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy
"If we remain silent when our popularly elected government violates the laws it has sworn to uphold and steals the freedoms we elected it to protect, we will have only ourselves to blame when Big Brother is everywhere." - Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long." - Thomas Sowell
"I don't have any intention of resigning." - Eric Holder
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten." - Conrad Hall
I dont even want to try to imagine...ok too late :sad: ...how many children are thinking that at on Fathers Day.
Our son-in-law's dad passed away at a young age. I have often wondered what he thought on Father's day at our house when all the kids/grandkids are here wishing me a happy fathers day.
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."- John Barrymore
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" - John Wooden
"Opportunity makes a thief." - Francis Bacon
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates
"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later." - Charles Caleb Colton
NNiice :eyebrownod:
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." - Henry David Thoreau
"To date, the White House has steadfastly maintained that it has not had any role in advising the (Justice) Department with respect to the congressional investigation. The surprising assertion of executive privilege raised the question of whether that is still the case." - Darrell Issa
"The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep." - W. C. Fields
"Obamacare was bad law yesterday, it’s bad law today.†- Mitt Romney
"The Court today decides to save a statute Congress did not write." - Justice Anthony Kennedy
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Not all who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien
And not all who are lost, wander :eyebrow:
â€If at some point you don’t ask yourself, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ then you’re not doing it right.†- Roland Gau
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen
"Of course, they say wars never settle anything â€" but that business about secession was settled by the war." - Shelby Foote
"“If you’ve been successful you didn’t get there on your own.....If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." - Barack Obama
“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.†- Aidan Chambers
“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.†- Lauren Myracle
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.†- C.S. Lewis
"If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often."- Tom Wilson
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." - Sir Norman Wisdom
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." - Francis Bacon
"What I deserve I earn." - tattoo on the back of British Olympic gymnast Louis Smith
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" - Psalm 53:1
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." - Ulysses S. Grant
“I stood by Grant when he was drunk and he stood by me when I was crazy, and now we stand by each other always.†- William Tecumseh Sherman
“I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them.†- Terry McMillian
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton
“You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.†- Mitch Albom
"Pray, and let God worry." - Martin Luther
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." - Don Marquis
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli
"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service." - Earl Nightingale
"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing." - Victor Hugo
"Direct threats require decisive action." - Dick Cheney
"All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Agatha Christie
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." - Theodore Roethke
“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter†- African Proverb
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver
"I owe it all to little chocolate donuts." - John Belushi
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." - Rabindranath Tagore
Yeah I like that one
"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease." - Frank Knox
"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box." - Italian proverb
:alscalls: I love it!
I might have to use that one :eyebrow:
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"America has a way of making the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect." - Condoleezza Rice
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.†- Steve Maraboli
“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.†- Danny Kaye
"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners." - Eric Hoffer
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." - Robert Frost
“A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.†- Sir Martin Conway
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London
“It does not matter where you came from, it matters where you are going.†- Condoleezza Rice
"To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury." - Benjamin Tucker
"I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under." - Bill Bixby
"Fathom the hypocricy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen." - Ben Stein
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." - Aristotle
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." - Gore Vidal
Thats incredibly sickening if it's true :huh:
"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken." - Thomas Wolfe
"Can a people tax themselves into prosperity? Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle?" - Winston Churchill
"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule." - Jefferson Davis
"Mr. President, you are entitled to your own airplane, your own house as president, but not to your own facts." - Mitt Romney
"A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for." - Gael Attal
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.†- C.S. Lewis
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity." - Konrad Adenauer
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - G. M. Trevelyan
"A man is what he thinks about all day long." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from: coyote101 on October 10, 2012, 09:03:00 AM
"A man is what he thinks about all day long." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sure hope this is not true. :innocentwhistle:
Name withheld due to content of thoughts.
Well then I'm a BOOB!! :alscalls: :alscalls:
I'm an installed woodburner :doh2:
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates
Quote from: coyote101 on October 11, 2012, 08:15:34 AM
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates
Are you sure this wasn't just stated by the Republican National Committee?
Jerry
"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better." - Edward W. Howe
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Mother Teresa
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
"It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Moliere
What has your administration done or planned to do.....
"Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced." - Barack Obama
Just to add to the above.
Suggesting a ban not just on semi-automatic weapons like the AR-15 but maybe even handguns, the most popular rifle in America, the president said, "What I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally. Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced. But part of it is also looking at other sources of the violence. Because frankly, in my hometown of Chicago, there's an awful lot of violence and they're not using AK-47s. They're using cheap handguns."
"Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians." - Alexander Hope
“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be†- Unknown
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best." - Voltaire
Quote from: coyote101 on October 19, 2012, 07:56:26 AM
“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be†- Unknown
And a realist will tell you it's another glass that needs washed. ~~ Diane S. :alscalls: :alscalls:
"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" - Robert H. Schuller
Live forever to make sure my kids were ok and never had to put me in the ground themselves.
“All mushrooms are edible - once†- Unknown
ROFLMAO!! :alscalls: :laf: :laugh2: :thumb2: :hahaha:
"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." - Arnold H. Glasow
Quote from: coyote101 on October 22, 2012, 08:43:39 AM
“All mushrooms are edible - once†- Unknown
I am now using that one!
"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance." - Sun Tzu
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life." - Michael LeBoeuf
"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." - Norman Mailer
"Baseball is the most important thing in life that doesn't matter." - Robert Parker
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - Ronald Reagan
"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe." - Leo Rosten
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late." - Felix Frankfurter
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America" - Barack Obama
"Oaths are but words, and words are but wind." - Samuel Butler
Just wanted to let you know I appreciate you keeping this updated everyday. I read it every morning as long as I have Internet access.
Thanks FOs
Pat
"The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona." - Mitt Romney
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
And the next day hopes we've learned something from the last four years and we get ourselves a new president!
"Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed." - DeForest Soaries
“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.†- Adolf Hitler
Why Democracies Fail
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. - author unknown
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." - 2 Chronicles 7:14
Quote from: coyote101 on November 09, 2012, 06:26:19 AM
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." - 2 Chronicles 7:14
How many electoral votes are needed?
"Socialism means slavery." - Lord Acton
"Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government." - Thomas Sowell
"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation." - President George Washington
"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work." - Al Capp
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.†- Giordano Bruno
"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war." - Benjamin Netanyahu
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln
"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth." - Bo Bennett
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." - Alexander Hamilton
"No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things." - Unknown
"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever." - Psalm 107:1
"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things, not the great occasions, that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness." - Bob Hope
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn
"Wishes cost nothing unless you want them to come true.†- Frank Tyger
How much does each one cost? :biggrin:
"The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.†- Lisa Wingate
"I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition." - Bruce Springsteen
“Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it, I say, whatever you want to do, do it now.†- Michael Landon
"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" - Dr. Seuss
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.†- Albert Einstein
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Simeon Strunsky
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!" - Samuel Adams
"What kind of life have you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it." - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nothing! :nono:
"Dig the well before you are thirsty." - Chinese Proverb
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." - George Washington
"Very few of us are what we seem." - Agatha Christie
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
Quote from: coyote101 on December 11, 2012, 07:42:42 AM
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
Was this a prediction Mr. Twain made about the 2012 election - long before it happened?
Jerry
Quote from: coyote101 on December 11, 2012, 07:42:42 AM
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
It is amazing how true that is, even with really intelligent people, or maybe especially with really intelligent people. Over the years I have pointed out two financial scams that friends of mine in the leadership of nonprofit organizations have believed and put money into and about that time asked me what I thought of the deal. I remember sitting there in a board meeting on one of those and not wanting to reply as they described the glowing opportunity. In both cases my first words in response were, "It's a scam." In both cases it damaged the friendship-- especially when time proved the deals to be hoaxes.
Once people are invested emotionally in believing something, they don't want to hear that they have been fooled. Unless the stakes are high and the damage great, do NOT tell people they have been taken.
"How great in number are the little minded men." - Plautus
"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Jeff Cooper
:wink: I like that one
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." - Alexander Hamilton
"I liked things better when I didn't understand them." - Bill Watterson
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." - Unknown
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
--- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitlers Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942.
"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. " - Noah Webster
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." - Edmund Burke
"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." - Roy L. Smith
“We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.†- Thomas Paine
"A good listener is usually thinking about something else." - Kin Hubbard
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God." - Benjamin Franklin
“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.†â€" Mohandas Gandhi
"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." - Joey Adams
"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much." - Thornton Wilder
"My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing." - Emo Philips
"A great many people mistake opinions for thought." - Herbert V. Prochnow
"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson
Quote from: coyote101 on January 04, 2013, 08:21:59 AM
"A great many people mistake opinions for thought." - Herbert V. Prochnow
Absolutely LOVE this one. :congrats: Brilliant.
"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes." - Titus Livius
"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves." - Thomas Hobbes
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.†- Thomas Paine
"Vice President Biden would do well to read the 2nd Amendment and revisit the meaning of the phrase 'shall not be infringed,'" - Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La
"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.....I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
Quote from: coyote101 on January 11, 2013, 05:37:07 AM
"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
HELL YEAH!!! Down with Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi and all the other bastages that want to take my 2nd amendment from me!!!!
"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half." - Unknown
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." - Patrick Henry
"The great object is that every man be armed." - Patrick Henry
"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest." - Steven Brust
"Be careful when you pry the rifle from my cold dead hands.....the barrel will be hot." - Unknown
Quote from: coyote101 on January 16, 2013, 08:36:35 AM
"Be careful when you pry the rifle from my cold dead hands.....the barrel will be hot." - Unknown
:eyebrownod: I freegin love it! :yoyo:
"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties." - James Madison
"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Honore de Balzac
"You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.†- Adlai E. Stevenson
"Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.†- Thomas Paine
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms … The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible.†- Hubert H. Humphrey
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.†- Douglas Adams
"He who lives by the sword, should train with it frequently." - Unknown
"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." - Patrick Henry
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - Will Rogers
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone."
Frédéric Bastiat
"Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name." - Unknown
"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.†- Ernest Hemingway
"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." - Horace
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu
"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." - Ronald Reagan
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." - Unknown
“Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.†- Glen Cook
"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." - J. K. Rowling
“Should an opportunity be afforded for boarding the enemy, I will be the first man upon his deck.â€- Lt. William S. Bush, killed aboard USS Constitution, 1812
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz
"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying." - W. Clement Stone
Quote from: coyote101 on February 15, 2013, 08:00:45 AM
"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour." - Benjamin Disraeli
Boy aint that, I say aint that the truth!
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." - George H. W. Bush
“Garry McCarthy’s understanding of our Constitution barely qualifies him as a meter maid, never mind the chief of the nation’s third largest police department,†- Richard Pearson, Executive Director Illinois State Rifle Association
"I said, 'Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony ... take that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house, you don't need an AR-15"' - Joe Biden
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.†- T.S Eliot
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." - George Washington
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." - James Madison
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain
"Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims." - Ayn Rand
"The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it." - Mark Twain
"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave." - Thomas Jefferson
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.†- Voltaire
“There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.†- Jim Butcher
"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
:eyebrownod: and force it will be :eyebrow:
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - C. S. Lewis
Quote from: FinsnFur on March 05, 2013, 09:39:28 PM
:eyebrownod: and force it will be :eyebrow:
Yeah, and Homeland Security just ordered 2300 armored RVs. Wonder what their plans are for those?? I suppose they need them to help secure the borders, NOT??
Jim
“No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual. It goes against everything that we fundamentally believe in our country.†- Rand Paul
"No president has the right to say that he is judge, jury and executioner!" â€" Rand Paul
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." - C. S. Lewis
"Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus." - John Byrne
"Little things comfort us because little things distress us." - Blaise Pascal
"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger." - Andrew Jackson
"I will not sit quietly and let the president shred the Constitution." â€" Rand Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." ~ Claire Wolfe
"You never fail until you stop trying." â€" Albert Eintein
"If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators... saying they will not tolerate this." - Rand Paul
Quote from: coyote101 on March 06, 2013, 11:48:58 AM
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - C. S. Lewis
One of the most profound quotations I know. Lord, spare us from those who have good intentions for us and power to force their intentions on us. I'm a little slow commenting as I've been on the road a lot in the past ten days.
"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love." - Ovid
"There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." - Ronald Reagan
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." - Ayn Rand
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents." ~ Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground (a communist terrorist group) and close friend of Barrack Hussein Obama.
"Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption." - Philip Schaff
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain
"I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom"~ New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Tecumseh
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." -Alfred Adler
Quote from: coyote101 on March 23, 2013, 09:42:02 AM
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." - Robert A. Heinlein
:yoyo: :yoyo:
"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt." Ayn Rand
"He is Risen!" - Mark 16:6
"April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four." - Mark Twain
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
Very true :eyebrownod:
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. And the rest of them who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." - Will Rogers
"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week." - Joseph Addison
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." -Margaret Thatcher (RIP)
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." - Lyndon B. Johnson
This one has been used before, but it bears repeating.
Quote from: coyote101 on April 11, 2013, 07:58:40 AM
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." - Lyndon B. Johnson
Kinda like prescription drugs? :laf:
"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen." - Joe Dimaggio
I thought this quote was on spring gobblers or trout season, then I saw DiMaggio!
Quote from: Dave on April 13, 2013, 07:20:01 AM
I thought this quote was on spring gobblers or trout season, then I saw DiMaggio!
Who knows Dave, he could have been talking about turkey season. :shrug:
Pat
"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again." - Gustav Mahler
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip Dick
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." - Robert Frost
"We got him." - Tom Menino (Mayor of Boston)
I think those three words rang out across the nation. Even seen on every headline from California to the Virgin islands :yoyo:
Nice one Pat
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow
"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower." - Kin Hubbard
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps." - David Lloyd George
:laf: Yah that could prove fatal
"In war there is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.†- Thomas Campbell
"Maybe I should just pack up and go home." - Barack Obama
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." - W. C. Fields
Quote from: coyote101 on April 30, 2013, 04:08:54 PM
"Maybe I should just pack up and go home." - Barack Obama
Just where would that be? :shrug:
Need any help packing? :eyebrow:
"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all." -Theodore Roosevelt
Amen to that!
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.†- Mark Twain
"It's always too early to quit." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." - Satchel Paige
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." - C. S. Lewis
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"America, the greatest losses of our freedom have come not from someone attacking us, but from the government ignoring the Constitution and the majority letting them get away with it." - Judge Andrew Napolitano
:congrats: :congrats: That ones going up there on my favorites list.
"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it." - Buddy Hackett
I heard this back in the late 60's.
"You can get more with a kind word & a gun, than you can with just a kind word" - Mad Professor
"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top." - Arnold Bennett
But you1're not going to catch any fish. :laf:
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.†- Albert Camus
"Government is always eager to abuse our rights in the name of some greater good; but the greatest good is freedom. Liberty must always be guarded." â€" Rand Paul
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." - Billy Graham
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." - Helen Keller
"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph." - Pierre Corneille
"Don't do something permanently stupid because you are temporarily upset." - Unknown
I like that :sneer:
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
"I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules and regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee." - Lois Lerner
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S. Patton
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." - Billy Wilder
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." - Philip K. Dick
"Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless." - Unknown
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.†- Barry Finlay
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." - Lao Tsu
"Money is gold, and nothing else." - J.P. Morgan
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was." - Toni Morrison
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C. S. Lewis
"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." - William Penn
"Make no mistakes in a hurry." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Peace while the other side is still attacking is not peace; it's surrender." - Ben Stein
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." - Charlotte Whitton
""The justices correctly acknowledged that the covered jurisdictions should no longer be punished by the federal government for conditions that existed over 40 years ago. The South is an altogether different place than it was in 1965." - Frank Ellis
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." - Thornton Wilder
"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless." - Milton Friedman
"So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying 'no'." - James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence )
"Bitterly and ironically, the government Jefferson wrought is proving the accuracy of Jefferson’s prediction that in the long march of history, government grows and liberty shrinks. Somewhere Jefferson is weeping. Happy Fourth of July 2013." -Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone." - Christopher Morley
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." - Charles de Gaulle
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." - Josh Billings
"I'm glad this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty." - Don West
"Smile, it's free therapy." - Douglas Horton
"The attorney general fails to understand that self-defense is not a concept, it's a fundamental human right." - Chris Cox
"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself." - Douglas MacArthur
“I'm not young enough to know everything.†- J.M. Barrie
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass
"Real riches are the riches possessed inside." - B. C. Forbes
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." - Ronald Reagan
"I want to bring my vision to the people of the city of New York. I hope they are willing to still continue to give me a second chance." - Anthony Weiner
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Steven R. Covey
Quote from: coyote101 on July 25, 2013, 07:26:17 AM
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Steven R. Covey
You're lucky if they even listen at all - usually just wait to to reply without listening. :madd:
Quote from: coyote101 on July 24, 2013, 10:37:40 AM
"I want to bring my vision to the people of the city of New York. " - Anthony Weiner
His vision or his Weiner? :alscalls:
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." - George MacDonald
"He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men." - William R. Alger
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion." - Thomas Jefferson
"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper." - Errol Flynn
"Strong people don't put others down.....they lift them up." - Michael P. Watson
"I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons." - Ogden Nash
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to beâ€"or to be indistinguishable fromâ€"self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.†- Neal Stephenson
"I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it." - Jean Kerr
"There are some people who always seem angry and continuously look for conflict. Walk away; the battle they are fighting isn't with you, it is with themselves." - Unknown
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - Aldous Huxley
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him." - Jim Elliot
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will only cause permanent psychological damage." - Anonymous
Olegreyfox needs to see this one.
"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." - Unknown
"Opportunities look a lot like work." - Ashton Kutcher
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell
" Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde
"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke." - Will Rogers
"All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They." - Rudyard Kipling
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson
MSM would hear Jefferson's comment and label him a redneck right wing militant racist with low intelligence-- instead of arguably the smartest and most sophisticated politician and thinker in American history.
I said to an exceptionally astute Englishman I once worked with that the European social democracies are like poodle dogs in an airline cage, with someone to feed them and care for them. The US is a curly wolf who runs free on the mountains with no one to feed or care for her. She is dangerous to herself and to others but she has produced the richest, strongest most envied nation on earth.
Quote from: coyote101 on August 23, 2013, 06:40:32 AM
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson
Great quotation, BTW! I suspect that few in our current society get it, and hope that I am wrong.
"Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it." - William Feather
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" - Sydney J. Harris
"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P. Jones
That is true :laf:
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I have never seen a president as confused, befuddled, impotent, insincere and as out of his depth as Barack Obama has become in dealing with the Syrian issue." - Charlie Daniels
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison
Thats so full of reality it's scarey :huh:
"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent." - Abraham Lincoln
"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment." - William Howard Taft
"Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children." - President George W. Bush
"These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong." - President George W. Bush
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." - Dick Cavett
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen." - Christopher Morley
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H. L. Mencken
I'm afraid that day passed about five years ago.
Pat
Quote from: coyote101 on September 17, 2013, 08:24:02 AM
I'm afraid that day passed about five years ago.
Pat
I think you are correct.
Jerry
I concur
"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights." - H. L. Mencken
Pat,
I really enjoy your quote posts. While reading a book recently I found this quote that I wanted to share . . .
From a book I am reading, "Light of the world" by James Lee Burke . . .
"At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself - the waste of days given to us. Is there any more piercing remorse than the realization that a person has thrown away the potential that resides in every sunrise?"
Jim
Thanks Jim.
Pat
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H. L. Mencken
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H. L. Mencken
"It's not good enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required" -Winston Churchill
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." - Richard L. Evans
"If Obamacare doesn't apply to everyone..... then it shouldn't apply to anyone." - Sen. Ted Cruz
"Maybe Democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo ID to participate in the program." - Dennis Miller
LMAO!
"People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip." - Bernard Williams
"Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget" - Unknown
"Listen carefully to how a person speaks to you about other people. This is how they will speak to other people about you." - Unknown
Quote from: coyote101 on October 01, 2013, 11:02:54 AM
"Listen carefully to how a person speaks to you about other people. This is how they will speak to other people about you." - Unknown
True true, and one of the observations I've used as an operational policy in life and work.
"Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle." - Jack Paar
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy." - Jonathan Sacks
"Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep" ~ author unkown
“The American flag does not fly because the wind moves past it. The American flag flies from the last breath of each military member who has died protecting it. American soldiers don’t fight because they hate what’s in front of them…they fight because they love what’s behind them.†- Unknown
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.†- Stephen King
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." - Thomas Huxley
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken
"I think Barack Obama is a threat to the integrity and future of the Republic. My country first." - James Woods
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." - H. L. Mencken
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got." - Art Buchwald
"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar N. Bradley
"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one." - Mark Twain
"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will." - Alexander Hamilton
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere." - C. S. Lewis
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." - Groucho Marx
"After all is said and done, more is said than done." - Aesop
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein." - George Washington
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." - Francesco Guicciardini
Pat, really appreciate this thread and your diligence to make it high quality. You've posted a number of extra good ones lately. Thank you.
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.†- George Orwell
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." - H. L. Mencken
"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." - Don Herold
"For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock." - Timothy Zahn
"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." - James 5:16
"A beaver is bout like the ninjas. The suckers only work at night and they're hard to find!" - Si Robertson
• “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. he rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.†- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin." â€" George Washington
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
"....to say it's a train wreck is an insult to train wrecks!" - Congressman Trey Gowdy referring to Obamacare.
"There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them." - Casey Stengel
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation." - Laurence J. Peter
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." - Charles de Gaulle
"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up." - George R. R. Martin
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First, a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can." - Samuel Adams
"Poor people have been voting democrat for fifty years and they are still poor." - Charles Barkley
"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool." - Joseph Roux
"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it." - Buddy Hackett
Pat, appears that you have been talking to my parents.
"Time is the fairest and toughest judge." - Edgar Quinet
“You cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.†- John F. Kennedy
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat." - Ogden Nash
Quote from: coyote101 on November 25, 2013, 07:22:54 AM
"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat." - Ogden Nash
So true, but without cats there would be no targets.
Quote from: Hawks Feather on November 25, 2013, 01:13:26 PM
Quote from: coyote101 on November 25, 2013, 07:22:54 AM
"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat." - Ogden Nash
So true, but without cats there would be no targets.
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Quote from: Semp on November 25, 2013, 05:16:26 PM
Quote from: Hawks Feather on November 25, 2013, 01:13:26 PM
Quote from: coyote101 on November 25, 2013, 07:22:54 AM
"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat." - Ogden Nash
So true, but without cats there would be no targets.
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Where is that 'like' button?
“We have traded that which works, for that which sounds good.†- Thomas Sowell
:rolleye: So true.
"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Be as you wish to seem." - Socrates
"May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not." - Millard Fillmore
"Fortune favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.†- Nelson Mandela
"We are sliding down the mire of a democracy that pollutes the morals of the people before it swallows up their freedoms." - Fisher Ames
"'A Date Which Will Live in Infamy'" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.†-- Plato
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience." - Bob Packwood
Quote from: coyote101 on December 11, 2013, 09:06:06 AM
"Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience." - Bob Packwood
Wisdom in words. I'd always heard it attributed to Mark Twain. Great line whoever said it first!
Okanagan,
Check this out:
http://www.quoteyard.com/good-judgment-comes-from-experience-and-experience-comes-from-bad-judgment/
Pat
"I never said most of the things I said." - Yogi Berra
Quote from: coyote101 on December 12, 2013, 08:28:18 AM
Okanagan,
Check this out:
http://www.quoteyard.com/good-judgment-comes-from-experience-and-experience-comes-from-bad-judgment/
Pat
Thanks, Good link... and a great story from the old Turkish sage!
"Denial and inactivity prepare people well for the roles of victim and corpse."- Dr. John Leach
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." - Mark Twain
"Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it." - Chuck Noll
"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy." - Dennis Prager
"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates
True true. And if we would only realize this it would make our personal trials more bearable.
I went through several years of difficulty; blind at times, unable to drive for 18 months, half a dozen surgeries, etc.... Once in awhile I would hear of the troubles someone else was having, and decided, "Lord, I'll take the ones I have."
Not long ago I would have believed that, but since my step-son died I am not so sure. :sad:
"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare." - Voltaire
Quote from: bambam on December 17, 2013, 05:56:58 PM
Not long ago I would have believed that, but since my step-son died I am not so sure. :sad:
Sorry to hear of your loss, and of a pain that does not stop. During my illness, the event that most made me rather keep my troubles than those of someone else was when a friend's 20 year old son was murdered. That friend would likely have traded his pain for mine.
"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." - Aristotle
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince." - Plato
"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. " - Plato
Quote from: coyote101 on December 29, 2013, 09:03:58 AM
"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. " - Plato
I had not realized that Plato was an American! This trait is a blessing and a curse.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.†- Jonathan Swift
"It is easier to stay out than get out." - Mark Twain
“Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant and then and then it seeks to silence good.†â€" Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia
"In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will." - Alexander Hamilton
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
T E A M
Together
Everyone
Achieves
More.
Vince Lombardi
"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I AM living up to my full potential?" - Jane Wagner
"I used to pray for somebody to speak up, to stand up and defend our liberties. Then I realized,....I am somebody." - Unknown
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." - Confucius
"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them." - Benjamin Franklin
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"After the last ten scandals, forgive me if I don't believe the President every time he speaks." - Rand Paul
"It is easy to sit up and take notice; what is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Honore de Balzac
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." â€" Henry Ford
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." - Aristotle
^^^^A lesson thousands of years old that has not been learned yet.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." - Alfred Whitney Griswold
“The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.†- Unknown
:laf: I still cant get caught up
"You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly." - Terence
"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace." - Frederick W. Taylor
"You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in." - Dr. Seuss
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.†- Bertolt Brecht
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." - Ayn Rand
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead." - Les Brown
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson
"...the people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority, either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches..." - John Witherspoon
“The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.†- Charles Nodier
"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality." - Thomas Sowell
"Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you." â€" Larry Kersten
"In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college." - Joseph Sobran
“Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.†â€" Abraham Lincoln
I found this one recently . . .
“Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your guns away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politiciansâ€
Aaron Zelman and I. Neil Smith, Hope, 2001
Jim
"If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?" - Steven Wright
LOL...I'd wave it on :innocentwhistle:
"I liked things better when I didn't understand them." - Bill Watterson
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." - Paul Tournier
"If in the opinion of the People the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield." - George Washington
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." - Bertrand Russell
“All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.†- John Taylor
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." - Epicurus
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." - Plutarch
"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity." - Euripides
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." - Sydney J. Harris
"Example whether it be good or bad has a powerful influence, and the higher in rank the Officer is who sets it, the more striking it is." â€" George Washington
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.†- George Orwell
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.†- George Orwell
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." - Marcus Aurelius
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can." - Samuel Adams
"Your silence gives consent." - Plato
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." - Diogenes
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approached that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." - Patrick Henry
"Never give in and never give up." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States." - Noah Webster
“They will fight to the last ATF agent or to the last oath-breaking soldier. Will they fight to the first senior bureaucrat, the second Congressman, the third newspaper editor, the fourth Senator, the fifth White House aide? Can they stand Bill Clinton's rules of engagement?†- Mike Vanderboegh
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.†- George Orwell
"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible." - George Orwell
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" - A. A. Milne
"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." - Erwin Rommel
"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else." - George Halas
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox." - Lao Tzu
"In order to be a smart ass you must first be smart, otherwise you're just an ass." - Unknown
There's a lot of truth to that! :laf:
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." - Golda Meir
"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again." Gustav Mahler
Ditto THAT! :jump: but were suppose to get an inch of snow Sunday night :doh2:
Quote from: FinsnFur on April 11, 2014, 06:09:45 PM
we're suppose to get an inch of snow Sunday night :doh2:
Ouch! :huh: Supposed to be close to 80 here tomorrow.
Pat
"To be an ideal guest, stay at home." - E. W. Howe
“Well, it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.†- Harry Reid
Quote from: coyote101 on April 15, 2014, 11:03:27 AM
“Well, it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.†- Harry Reid
Is he talking about the people in the White House or the people in Congress ? :shrug: :shrug: :confused: :confused:
"And when the people do get together and stand up, I think government will be forced to back down." - Ron Paul
"It is the duty of the Patriot to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine
"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." - Joseph Priestley
"He is Risen!" - Mark 16:6
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.†- John Locke
"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." - Arnold H. Glasow
"The idea is to die young as late as possible." - Ashley Montagu
"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time." - Gerald R. Ford
"You know it's cold outside when....you go outside and it's cold." - Anonymous
:laf: :laf: @ ^^^^!!
Guess there aint no other way of putting that now is there?? :laf: :laf:
Or when you see a liberal with his hands in his own pocket instead of yours.
Quote from: coyote101 on April 28, 2014, 07:51:01 AM
"You know it's cold outside when....you go outside and it's cold." - Anonymous
:alscalls: Amazing
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
"If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours." - Clarence Day
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Henry Ford
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." - Napoleon Hill
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee
"The less you talk, the more you're listened to." - Pauline Phillips
"Every choice you make has an end result." - Zig Ziglar
"When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say". - Henny Youngman
"I live in a crazy time." - Anne Frank
'Let me get this straight....people who have sworn to defend the Constitution are attacking me for defending the Constitution? - Sen. Ted Cruz
:congrats: Thats perfect
"What is forgiven is usually well remembered." - Louis Dudek
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments." - Ludwig von Mises
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." - Nathan Hale
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error." - Molier
"They fought together as brothers-in-arms. They died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation." - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"We are not weak, we are unreliable." - Senator John McCain (discussing the Obama foreign policy)
"Only a real risk can test the reality of a belief." - C.S. Lewis
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A man not worthy to carry the knapsack will stand at Omaha Beach on D-Day Anniv.~ Allen West
Publicity stunt :iroll:
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." - Joseph Campbell
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." - George Bernard Shaw
"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much." - Hedy Lamarr
"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy." - Florence Scovel Shinn
"Only the mediocre are always at their best." - Jean Giraudoux
"The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness." - Henry David Thoreau
"We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks - if we agree with him." - Mark Twain
"Some of us learn from other people's mistakes; the rest of us have to be the other people." - Unknown
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.†- Mark Twain
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." - Tom Peters
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." - Bryant McGill
"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion." - Arnold H. Glasow
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." - Mark Twain
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." - Yogi Berra
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean Paul
"You can never change what you avoid - engage your world and make a difference." - Myles Munroe
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"Life is not like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. " - Unknown
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." - Swedish Proverb
"Apparently, the leading cause of hard drive failure is subpoenas." - David Burge
“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.†- Grover Cleveland
"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon
Quote from: coyote101 on August 01, 2014, 10:41:47 AM
"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon
Man is that ever true. There are many variations of expressing this truth, but in simple real life, I have a friend who is a superb navigator of the British Columbia coast with its 40 foot tides, myriad channels, fjords and islands that create white water rapids that reverse direction with tide change, etc. On two different occasions I spent a week with him on that coast, once while moving a 24 foot sailboat 500 miles from Campbell River to Prince Rupert, the other while we led a sea kayak group.
With the kayak group, in 8 days and 60-70 miles we never paddled once against wind nor tide. We would ride the tide current for hours. He would have us start early or sleep in to time the currents and choose routes around islands that would extend our time of going with the flow. One time in the sailboat a strong current carried us for 10 hours even though the tide changes about every six hours. Marine charts were merely starting points for him and he knew in detail what currents would be doing around corners and in channel intersections. Some people are really good at what they do...
"It's, 'yea though I walk through the valley'. Not, 'yea though I sit down and whine in the valley.' Keep walking." - Tony Evans
lol! :eyebrownod:
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.†- George Carlin
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln
"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent." - Publilius Syrus
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden
"The mob is the mother of tyrants." - Diogenes
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default." - J. K. Rowling
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House." - Ralph Abernathy
:laf: love it
"Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake." - Robert Half
"If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already." - Bob Marley
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. - Charles Kettering
"Never cut what you can untie." - Joseph Joubert
"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"North to Alaska" - Johnny Horton
"We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again." - Donald Trump
"Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them." - Ronald Reagan
Thanks coyote, I really missed this.
Ditto :eyebrownod:
Me too. Thank you for the effort it takes.
Yep have to agree - I missed this too. Thanks Pat
I think John P knew there was an ember under all those ashes and knew just where and when to stir it up! :laf:
I too am glad to see it back.
Thanks Pat.
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.†- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ain't that true! When getting to know someone new to me, I tend to listen. Sooner or later they will talk about something I know about, and if they fib there, I say nothing but quietly dismiss anything they say on any subject.
“I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.†- Secretary of Defense James Mattis
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help." - Alex Haley
"I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking." - General Dwight D Eisenhower
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." - Josh Billings
"No war is over until the enemy says it's over." - Gen. James Mattis
Quote from: coyote101 on June 08, 2017, 10:11:47 AM
"No war is over until the enemy says it's over." - Gen. James Mattis
I really like this General and for some reason I think the troops would too.
Jerry
I think he is one of the last of his kind!
He's the rough in the diamond!
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“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work, it's that you're destroying the peg.†- Paul Collins
"It's always good to be underestimated." - Donald Trump
Quote from: coyote101 on June 10, 2017, 10:35:47 AM
"It's always good to be underestimated." - Donald Trump
Yes!!!
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society." - Aristotle
"The future has a way of arriving unannounced." - George Will
"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war." - William Tecumseh Sherman
"Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would." - Jimmy Dean
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim Valvano
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." - Unknown
Quote from: coyote101 on June 19, 2017, 06:56:43 PM
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." - Unknown
I think this was my parent's sex education talk with me.
"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world." - Epictetus
"The older I get the better I used to be!" - Lee Trevino
"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one." - John C. Maxwell
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." - Amos Bronson Alcott
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." - Vernon Howard
"When in doubt, don't." - Benjamin Franklin
"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall." - Mitch Hedberg
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness." - Stewart Udall
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot
"In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish." - Donald Trump
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how man would marvel and stare." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." - Steven Wright
Right. Real fishing takes a kayak. Just ask Jim.
Jerry
tis true :eyebrownod:
"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." - W. C. Fields
"I hate photobucket." - Pat
"You will never win if you never begin." - Helen Rowland
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Ansel Adams
"Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." - Oliver Cromwell
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good." - Steven Wright
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." - Henry Ford
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." - Leo Tolstoy
"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing." - Bernard Baruch
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe Ruth
"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies." - Karl Kraus
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill
Quote from: coyote101 on August 15, 2017, 08:16:37 PM
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill
That MIGHT apply to the Charlotte fight over removing historic statues...
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo Galilei
"Be always sure you are right - then go ahead." - Davy Crockett
Quote from: coyote101 on August 16, 2017, 09:58:35 PM
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo Galilei
:yoyo: :yoyo: Good one .
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - William James
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
Tell your wife that next time she catches you looking over the hot waitress lol :laf:
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them." - Epictetus
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." - Jonathan Swift
Quote from: coyote101 on August 27, 2017, 03:48:34 PM
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." - Jonathan Swift
Must have been starved to death to eat snot. :innocentwhistle:
"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"I've got work to do." - Houston Police Department Sgt. Steve Perez, who drowned trying to get to work after Hurricane Harvey
"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it." - Paulo Coelho
"If you live in any evacuation zones and you're still at home, leave! Do not try to ride out this storm ... we can't save you once the storm hits." - Florida Governor Rick Scott
"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved. " Aristotle