QUOTES

[Llance]

We have all heard various quotes in our lives which have influenced us in subtle ways. Ways which affect the choices we have made in life. Something as simple as, do I have a coke with my lunch or a glass of water instead. An example of such a quote is: "A penny saved is a penny earned."

I'm fairly sure we all have heard such quotes in our lives so I'd like to start this thread with one that has influenced me. I'd like everyone to share some you know with the rest of us? It could be some thing as simple as keep your finger off the trigger until you know your target and backstop.

I don't know from where this comes (perhaps me) but I do know it is one I like:

It is not the life we live which has made us poor, but rather it is the life we didn't.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[bigwheelzip]

"I wish I'd worked more" is a phrase never spoken from the death bed.

Heard at work, when a co-worker died on his first day of retirement.

 

[Unisontroll]

Here are 2 of my favorite quotes.


- ''It ain't about how much you see, it is about how much you flip it into''
- ''Not everyone who chased it got it, but whoever got it, chased it'

 

[Robspeire]

Captain Penny's closing advice was, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool Mom."

 

[Tradewind36]

If you think you can or think you can't, you're right either way.

 

[tops]

It's not what happens to you. It's how you react to what happens to you. Larry

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

"Those that can: do! Those that can't: Teach! (I really peed off a lot of teachers! But by and large, they proved the saying correct!)

Ivan

 

[WardenRoss]

He had some good 'uns.

 

[Rustyt1953]

To save me from hours of typing...do quote searches for Carlin, Dangerfield, Hedberg and Wright.

 

[Golddollar]

Captain Penny's closing advice was, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool Mom."

I remember him on Cleveland TV, I think WEWS Channel 5. I think I have a picture of him and me around somewhere. His real name was Ron Penfound and he would dress up like an old time train engineer.

 

[Golddollar]

I find this saying of my dad's now coming out of my mouth:

"If the older generation didn't pass along its knowledge to the younger generation we'd still be living in caves."

 

[monsai52]

"Why do today what you can put off to tomorrow."

Best regards,

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Folks tell me, "You're so lucky to live in your nice cabin in this tiny mountain town."

I reply with a phrase from an old friend long before I retired from the Air Force:

"You make your own luck."

 

[Doug627]

Proverbs 21:9 (NLT) It's better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home. Proverbs 21:9 (NRS) It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious wife.

 

[tndrfttom]

I've heard several versions of this one:
You start life with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck...

 

[redlevel]

"You can lead a hawg to water, but when you get him there, he 'll just want to waller."
Lewis Grizzard

 

[crazyphil]

"Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today".
- My Mother

 

[crazyphil]

My all-time favorite:
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and
remove all doubt". - Abraham Lincoln

 

[crazyphil]

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

 

[wundudnee]

"Everyone's ignorant, only on different subjects." Will Rogers

I have lived my life with this one, "This too shall pass."

 

[crazyphil]

"A government that robs from Peter to pay Paul can always depend
on the support of Paul". George Bernard Shaw

 

[VaTom]

I find these words from my late Dad coming to me more often these days. (WWII and Korean War Vet)

If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing it right.
Plan your work and work your plan.
Take all you want but eat all you take. (told me it was on a sign in Navy Mess hall at Great Lakes)
If you can't say anything good about someone don't say anything at all.

 

[Badger Matt]

Be kind. Everyone is fighting a hard battle. ~ Dead Greek Guy

 

[Rifleman200-10X]

My grandpa: "Your best education comes from your dumbest decisions". If that statement were true, my IQ would put Einstein to shame.

 

[kraynky]

If you try nothing, you'll never make mistakes. If you don't make mistakes, you'll never learn. If you don't continue to learn, you've made the biggest mistake of all.

me

 

[rags]

 

[Llance]

This is exactly what I wanted to see.

Some of these are so funny I nearly spit out my beer laughing. Some require deep thought.

 

[outta_ammo]

My opening salvo:

"Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he punched the magazine release.

What doesn't kill you ... will circle around for a second attempt.


The big print giveth; the small print taketh away.

"Boy, if you shoot me with dat and I find out, I put you across my knee and spank hell outen you"
Old Nick Janis on examining Alson B. Orstrander's S&W Model One

 

[Rustyt1953]