Favorite quotes

The late James Yeager did a few YouTube videos on fitness, weight training, and diet. On talking about diet v/s exercise, he said "You can't outrun a fork".

(I've always struggled with my weight bouncing up and down over the years).
 
"No. Your other left……. No, not that one either………spin, crash, burn, die but do something……." Flight instructor to new student.

My late cousin was a senior captain and check pilot for a major airline. He said the following to a new hire/former Navy pilot who was struggling to land the plane in a heavy crosswind: "Should I call the airport and order them to turn into the wind?"
 
Point to any object in a Sears catalogue and somebody somewhere wants to sleep with it !

Stan Wojciehowicz. Barney Miller
 
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
 
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Very profound. Your source for this quote is….?
 
"Stupid is forever. You're either going to from it or with it." Quoted from another member's signature line from a different forum.
 
One of my favorites:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
― Robert A. Heinlein
 
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