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

[Andrew62]

"I reckon so!"

 

[112Savage]

Work keeps at bay three great evils; boredom, vice, and need.- Voltaire

If you’re looking for sympathy; look in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

 

[AimSmall]

All guns are always loaded.

 

[CoElkHunter]

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"- J. Wellington Wimpy
"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a box of .338s today"- Me

 

[1911Fan]

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." - G.K. Chesterton
"Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility." - Douglas Wilson
"A nation that makes a great distinction between its warriors and its scholars will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides

 

[LivingTheDream]

Jordan Peterson?

Sounds about right, I heard or read it somewhere and it stuck with me.

 

[Newboomer]

Sounds about right, I heard or read it somewhere and it stuck with me.

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!"
"You can do anything you set your mind to, therefore I can and I will." My philosophy.

 

[Ragman]

I don’t need to shoot farther, I need to hunt closer.
- Gary Sitton

The light at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
- David Lee Roth

There is a difference between valuable and expensive.

 

[LivingTheDream]

The Devil said, "you will not survive this storm"
I told the Devil, "I am the Storm"

 

[A Frame66]

A person who has had the bull by the tail once has learned sixty or seventy times as much as a person who hasn't.
Mark Twain

 

[Scott CWO]

“That kid’s got more throttle than brains!” Said my uncle, an experienced motorcycle rider himself, to my father after watching me at a motocross race.

“I am the rock you will break yourself against.” Can’t remember who.

 

[1911Fan]

The Devil said, "you will not survive this storm"
I told the Devil, "I am the Storm"

My favorite variation:
The devil whispered in my ear, "You're not strong enough to withstand the storm."
I whispered back, "At least I didn't lose my golden fiddle to a hillbilly from Georgia."

 

[jeanes]

Rule Number 9: Never ever go anywhere without a knife.
Jethro Gibbs

 

[Pilgrim]

Wherever you be, let your wind blow free. -Grandma

 

[cash_tx]

"You are what you repeat"
- my boxing trainer

"I like dancing with tall women"
- my 5'4" tall father-in-law

"An elevator smells different to a midget"
- my 80 year old coffee drinking buddy

"The sheriff Is near." - Blazing Saddles ;-)

 

[DrBob]

It is better to be thought a fool then to speak and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln

The three potential outcomes of any attempt can be 1)the least: improving on the process, 2) less likely : equaling the process and 3) most common; reinventing the flat tire.

 

[SaintPanzer]

I'm in a hockey mood, so three from Herb Brooks:

"The legs feed the wolves."

"You don't have the talent to make it on talent alone."

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

Oh, and a couple of others from my personal list of rules, collected over time:

"If the zamboni is on the ice, you're not." Said by the team captain correcting one of his players.

"Any dog that weighs less than fifty pounds is a cat, and cats are pointless." Ron Swanson

"Never run aground with the anchor in the pipe. It upsets Lloyds." I forget who first said this, but it's really good advice

"Respect the Good Idea Cut Off Point." A Staff Officer of my acquaintance who shall remain nameless for his protection

"There is a high cost to low living." I forget who first said this, it might also have been Herb Brooks. But it's important to know

 

[matt85]

Another good quote I just remembered:

“Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.”​

- Ernest Hemingway

 

[Pheroze]

There comes a time in the lives of all men when your semi-annual erection becomes your annual semi-erection

- older colleague of mine

 

[Daggaboy375]

You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make him water.