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

[Papa72]

“ Ain’t what the little monkey wants that makes him shit, it’s what he eats”

Dad, when told I wanted a new bike

 

[HankBuck]

“ Ain’t what the little monkey wants that makes him shit, it’s what he eats”

Dad, when told I wanted a new bike

Lost on me??…but sure my Dad had some sayings that I didn’t understand either…he still made his point

 

[WebleyGreene455]

"I may not be as young as I once was... but I'm older!" -- Hondo Ohnaka

 

[Rez Exelon]

"The world is not out to get you. The world is just out for itself."

 

[peacemaker]

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

 

[Vashper]

I recently met a guy who was once my subordinate. And he remembered my favorite remark (I forgot it myself): A hasty hare always has a dirty ass

 

[Vashper]

A sign I have hanging in my office:

"The more I get to know some people, the more I like dogs."

They write that the authorship belongs to a certain Madame de Sevigne (hell knows who it is), and then it was quoted by Heinrich Heine, who was read and quoted by Hitler. Nevertheless, the remark is correct. A dog is a highly moral being.

 

[Travis2282]

Trust but verify.

 

[AimSmall]

 

[Hogpatrol]

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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― Albert Einstein

 

[wolfhunter]

If it aint something its something else.

 

[Rez Exelon]

"Keep in mind that a man's just as good as his word.
and it takes twice as long to build bridges you've burned"

 

[Excessexpress]

“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”

When a mosquito lands on your testicles, you learn that problems can be solved without violence…

 

[fourfive8]

Finally watched ‘Oppenheimer’ the movie. I hesitated in case it had gross historical errors that would ruin the effect of the movie. Well, except for some artistic license common to all such productions, it was fairly accurate in content and context, IMO. Oppenheimer was a very brilliant and complex individual who studied different languages, cultures and religions like Hinduism. He enjoyed his privacy and occasional solitude and retreat. These escapes were usually very brief by necessity and away from the bomb project at Los Alamos.

 

[JG26Irish_2]

Here is one more worthy of repeat:

"Never pick a fight with an Old Man. He may be too weak, tired, and frightened to fight back, and he may be too crippled and slow to run away. Soooo, He will just Kill You!"

 

[Daniel Cary]

"Everybody is somebody's fool"

Orsen Wells "The Girl from Shanghai"

 

[Altitude sickness]

Here is one more worthy of repeat:

"Never pick a fight with an Old Man. He may be too weak, tired, and frightened to fight back, and he may be too crippled and slow to run away. Soooo, He will just Kill You!"

I always like to add also, that a life sentence doesn’t mean as much to an old man

 

[Rhoyland4]

"You can learn something from anyone, even if it's what NOT to do." My grandfather.

"You will always have a chance to do it right the second time." Chief Julian Salas. He was my chief when I was a young noob in the Navy.

Plus the two at the bottom of this post.

My grandfather had a similar one! "You can learn something from the town drunk if you follow him around long enough. It will probably be what not to do, but you will learn something."

 

[Brent in Az]

"I want to go out peacefully, like my grandfather did....not screaming like everyone else in the car"

 

[Newboomer]

"I want to go out peacefully, like my grandfather did....not screaming like everyone else in the car"

From my Dad: "Keep your mouth shut and no one will know you're a damn fool."