Favourite quotes - Here's mine, Quite a long list. What's yours?

[Huntsmans Bane]

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well

 

[Rob404]

You can't erase my dream you can only wake me up
Peter Frampton

 

[D.M.V]

It seemed like a good idea at the time

Me/D.M.V

 

[Ed Lally]

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Opposite of Einstein's quote, "Just because one believes something, doesn't make it true".

 

[JES Adventures]

I rolled a truck once with my two boys inside. By the Grace of GOD we all walked away. The EMT asked me how I was feeling. I said;

I’m not sure but my asshole was chewing chunks out of the seat

I never want to be somebody’s first.

I’ll sleep when I’m dead

JES

 

[Rob404]

Luucy you got some splaining to do
Desi Arnez

 

[Woodcarver]

Some dating advice given many moons ago by a Deacon-
"Date the whore, marry the virgin"

 

[Newboomer]

Some dating advice given many moons ago by a Deacon-
"Date the whore, marry the virgin"

"There is an inverse ratio of position (rank) to intelligence". A grizzled old SGM I knew.

 

[Vashper]

He's standing there like a cow looking at a new gate.
- My father in law

I heared this as “like a ram looking at a new gate.”
As a hint on somebody (usually boss): “he is known for his inquisitive look at everything new.”

Necessity leads the smart, but drags the fool

 

[503]

"Sooner or later, everyone gets shot." - My Dad.

 

[Vashper]

vegetarians, hypocrites and fools have the right to condemn hunting from a moral point of view.

I heard this with reference to Bernard Shaw (he was a vegetarian and an opponent of hunting), but I did not find this quote in his quotes. Nevertheless, the statement seems to me to be true.

 

[Huntsmans Bane]

No matter how careless a man is, He can never sit down on his testicles.

 

[schwerpunkt88]

"....because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know." -Donald Rumsfeld

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -Mark Twain

 

[BWH]

“Shining like a diamond [emoji184] in a goats ass”….
- me

“Smiling like a dead pig in the sunshine”
- unc Rog

 

[CoElkHunter]

"....because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know." -Donald Rumsfeld

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -Mark Twain

Kamala Harris must be related to Rumsfeld. LOL

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

“One doesn’t often meet a violent man who has learned that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”

“It is a fool who thinks a violent man who has embraced peace has forgotten how to be violent”

“Those who hammer there swords to plow shears will plow for those who don’t”

 

[CM McKenzie]

“Train Hard. Kill Pedophiles.”
-Gandhi

 

[fourfive8]

One of my dad's favorites when we would pass by an abandoned and dilapidated ranch house in some overgrazed, hard scrabble ranch land, "That looks like a real cold sweat and belly ache".

I haven't seen the movie but might sometime. I know some details about Oppenheimer's time in NM and don't want those realities to ruin the movie for me if too much is conflicting. Nonetheless, here's the famous and sobering one by Oppenheimer, as he quoted Vishnu, when later interviewed about his role in the development of the first nuclear weapon, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds".

 

[Major Bonkers]

The Spaniards (or at least the Catalans) have a good saying: ‘God gave him the gift of stupidity.’