SOME FAVORITE QUOTES

[PALADIN85020]

I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

- Will Rogers

Equality and Freedom are mutually exclusive.

- me

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

- anon

I never killed a man that didn't need killin'.

- attributed to many, including Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp

Those who will trade freedom for a little security deserve neither.

- Benjamin Franklin

That is something up with which I will not put.

- the grammatically correct Winston Churchill

Get there fustist with the mostest!

- Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest

Actually my legs are just long enough to reach the ground.

- Abe Lincoln

Be sure you're right, then go ahead.

- attributed to Davy Crockett

(Referring to the Germans in WWII) I pity those poor ********. I really do. We will tear out their living guts and use them to grease the wheels of our tanks!

- George S. Patton, Jr.

They had about twenty-five yards to come and they were coming right smart. I only had about half a clip left in my rifle; but I had my pistol ready. I done flipped it out fast and teched them off, too.

- Sergeant York, His Own Life Story and War Diary

What time is it? It lacks just a minute of being two minutes more than it was a minute ago.

- my uncle

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed, from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

- Thomas Jefferson

John

 

[J.R.Bauer]

I think the whole world is crazy except you and I and I am not sure about you.

A friend of mines mother

John

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[Skeptic 9c]

"When in trouble or in doubt, shoot 'um up and then cut out!" Chairman Mao, loosely translated.
Geoff
Who studied the irrelevant.

 

[Skeptic 9c]

"The Libertarian Party will never amount to a hill of beans, because no three members can order a pizza together." -Me

"The US Government depends on 436 people in Washington DC, no three of whom can order a pizza together." -Me

Earliest reference I've Googled: Power Armor Thread Part I

Geoff
Who has been making pithy comments on the Internet since the 1980s.

 

[LTC]

If he was born to hang, he'll never drown. ???????????

If BS was music, he'd be a brass band. My Father

You'll go to hell for lie'n as well as steal'n. My Mother

Tighter than a sketter's aXX stretched across a rain barrel. My Grandfather

My Grandfather's advice to questionable musical talent was, If you can't play well, play load.

Spins like the button on the outhouse door. My Father & Grandfather

Grandpop was 1896 vintage.

LTC

 

[J.R.Bauer]

Never trust a man that has to wear suspenders because he doesn't trust his belt to keep his pants up.

Me

John

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[jimbo728]

"Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils."
Maj Gen John Stark
July 31 1809

Jim

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying."

Charles Travis Postlewaite

 

[Bkreutz]

Howling like a dog passing razor blades (my Dad, except he never said "passing")
or
Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. (Dad again, he had others, but these were the main two)

 

[Muddyboot]

Monday always comes- Me

No kingdom can stand when two feeble princes follow in succession.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Skeptic 9c]

Trust, but VERIFY!
Geoff
Who notes it's been often used.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Howling like a dog passing razor blades (my Dad, except he never said "passing")

My dad, raised in Kentucky, had a similar saying:

"Shivering like a dog (passing?) wheat seeds!"

John

 

[Watchdog]

"She had eyes like strange sins."
- Phillip Marlowe, The High Window, by Raymond Chandler, 1942

Raymond Chandler

Note: If anyone's interested, the movie still is from The Big Sleep (1946). That's the stunningly beautiful 21-year-old Martha Vickers in the shot with Bogart.

The High Window has been filmed twice, and neither time was a big box office success. Once in 1942 as Time to Kill, starring Lloyd Nolan as a private eye named Michael Shayne (yeah, really), and again in 1947 as The Brasher Doubloon, with George Montgomery as Phillip Marlowe. Both were basically B-movies. I've never seen either one, and never seen either of them come up on Turner Classic Movies.

For me, the only onscreen Phillip Marlowe was, and will always be, Humphrey Bogart.

 

[waxman]

Never trust a man that is mean to his dog.

 

[Donn]

"If there's a bombardier who can't hit his plate with his fork, you get him. If there's a navigator who can't find the men's room, you get him because you rate him."

Gen. Savage to Lt. Col Gately, Twelve O'clock High.

 

[Skeptic 9c]

"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself!" FDR
"We have nothing to fear, that wasn't created by the Democrat Party." Unknown Fair Taxer at a TEA party rally in St. Augustine, FL.
Geoff
Who notes wisdom from protest signs.

 

[joeintexas]

Howling like a dog passing razor blades (my Dad, except he never said "passing")

Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. (Dad again, he had others, but these were the main two)

Dad added...off a 40 foot bluff with the wind blowing!

 

[Old TexMex]

"I'd take hangin' to burnin' and shootin' to both, but few badmen get to choose."
(attributed to Harry Tracy)

{Tracy committed suicide with his own gun when finally wounded and surrounded after a career which included some nine murders of lawmen and corrections officers.}

 

[Old TexMex]

"Con dinero, baila el perro"

Translation: " with money, the dog will dance."


"I am only better than him through trickery, and he meant me no harm"
(Santiago from Old man and the sea )

 

[crazyphil]

"If I had known I would be around so long I would have taken better care
of myself." I don't know who said it, but it should have been me.