Quote of the Day

[coyote101]

"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff." - Ambrose Bierce

[Dave]

I'm sure most can relate to that one!

[bambam]

"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. 

[coyote101]

"Some corners are best left uncut." - Jim Champion

[slagmaker]

Dang thats a deep one. Hard to belive our own JC came up with that one.

[msmith]

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 

[coyote101]

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." - Sun Tzu

[coyote101]

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." -John Ruskin

[FinsnFur]

  I just noticed I made the charts  a couple days ago

[shaddragger]

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." -John Ruskin

I am VERY familiar with that concept!

[coyote101]

"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

[coyote101]

"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." - attributed to Frederick II of Prussia

[coyote101]

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels." - John Calvin

[coyote101]

"History is written by the victors.” - Winston Churchill

[coyote101]

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." - William Tecumseh Sherman

[coyote101]

"A wild turkey is a bundle of nerves walking around in the woods, looking for something to be scared of." - Unknown turkey hunter

[coyote101]

"He that can have patience can have what he will." - Benjamin Franklin

[coyote101]

"If you shoot where he IS, you hit where he WAS." - Unknown quail and rabbit hunter

[coyote101]

"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

[coyote101]

"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