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

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

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

@Altitude sickness
I have OCD
Old
Cranky
and
Dangerous
Bob

 

[Russ16]

If you’re going to make a mistake, make it going full speed.

Always liked that one.

 

[franzfmdavis]

Throw me to the wolves, because there is order in the pack.

 

[F. Vaccaro]

I think it was Will Rogers who said: If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

“ Money is one thing which you realize how quickly gets expended… the minute you stop earning”

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers”

“Religion was introduced to mankind in order to bring peace, yet if history has ever taught us anything… it is that more atrocities have been committed in the name of religion since time immemorial than all other reasons combined”

“One can never be unhappy with low expectations”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to do the needful despite being fearful”

“Tolerate incompetence but never betrayal”

“Nobody likes a soldier until there is an enemy in your backyard”

“Illiterate people love to act like experts on the topics which they are most ignorant about”

"Shooting another person's hand loads is a disaster waiting to happen"

And my personal favorite quote, which was stated by my predecessor IGF (Inspector General Of Forests) Yusuf Saluddin Ahmad in 1966. It was extremely prophetic for it’s time:

“Those seeking to ban tiger hunting today, will seek to ban deer hunting tomorrow and bird hunting the day after”.

 

[Hogpatrol]

“You haven’t been lost till you’ve been lost at Mach 3 because for every minute that you don’t know where you are, you’re 35 miles further away from where you think you’re supposed to be!,” Frank Stampf, former SR-71 Blackbird RSO

 

[double rifle newbie]

If i don’t come back tell my Mother I love her, “But you’re Mothers dead” Well then I’ll tell her myself.

no country

 

[Surgeon1]

"If it's got wheels, tits or propellers it's going be a problem and it will be expensive, you are better off
renting it"
My dad (a pilot, hunter, and a lover of anything that was fast and married to my mother for 59years)

 

[HootAl]

Reality is a dish we all must eat from. The longer we avoid it, the worse it tastes.

 

[Surgeon1]

About a PH researcher who was with us on a hunt in The Sava, who wanted to try tracking an Eland
I shot who went about 100 yards only to trip over the Eland and stumble to the ground.

"He is only a slightly better tracker than Stevie Wonder" PH Thierry Labatt

 

[Rimbaud]

Epictetus, CLXXXIX

What wouldst thou be found doing when overtaken by Death? If I might choose, I would be found doing some deed of true humanity, of wide import, beneficent and noble. But if I may not be found engaged in aught so lofty, let me hope at least for this--what none may hinder, what is surely in my power--that I may be found raising up in myself that which had fallen; learning to deal more wisely with the things of sense; working out my own tranquillity, and thus rendering that which is its due to every relation of life. . . .

If death surprise me thus employed, it is enough if I can stretch forth my hands to God and say, "The faculties which I received at Thy hands for apprehending this thine Administration, I have not neglected. As far as in me lay, I have done Thee no dishonour. Behold how I have used the senses, the primary conceptions which Thous gavest me. Have I ever laid anything to Thy charge? Have I ever murmured at aught that came to pass, or wished it otherwise? Have I in anything transgressed the relations of life? For that Thou didst beget me, I thank Thee for that Thou hast given: for the time during which I have used the things that were Thine, it suffices me. Take them back and place them wherever Thou wilt! They were all Thine, and Thou gavest them me."--If a man depart thus minded, is it not enough? What life is fairer and more noble, what end happier than his?

 

[pilar]

“”An outsider who wants to try his luck in sheep country needs either a lot of time or a lot of money".
I guess the same can be said about Africa safari

 

[double rifle newbie]

if it flies, f_ucks, or floats its cheaper to rent

 

[sgt_zim]

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors — anaesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

 

[Newboomer]

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors — anaesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

My philosophy,"I think I can, therefore I will."
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2.
"America is one nation under God. If you don't like it--Leave."
It is the Soldier
not the minister who has given us freedom of religion.
not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press.
not the poet who has given us freedom of the speech.
not the campus organizer who has given us freedom to protest.
not the lawyer who has given us the right to a fair trial.
not the politician who has given us the right to vote.
who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.

 

[Newboomer]

My philosophy,"I think I can, therefore I will."
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2.
"America is one nation under God. If you don't like it--Leave."
It is the Soldier
not the minister who has given us freedom of religion.
not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press.
not the poet who has given us freedom of the speech.
not the campus organizer who has given us freedom to protest.
not the lawyer who has given us the right to a fair trial.
not the politician who has given us the right to vote.
who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.

 

[Newboomer]

Sometimes when I asked my Dad for advice on something he'd say, "Use your own judgment. " Lot of times my judgment was not so good.

 

[BnC 04]

"A bee doesn't waste its time explaining to a fly that honey tastes better then sh*t."

 

[steve white]

I think it was Will Rogers who said: If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

He also said, "I never met a man I didn't like"

Here's one: "I fish, therefore I am"

 

[fourfive8]

The flaw in the sterile and cavalier attitude toward going out by nuclear weapon, is that it would not necessarily be quick. The survivors would face major unpredictable residual effects for generations.