SOME FAVORITE QUOTES

[Bullet Bob]

When Voltaire was dying, in his eighties, a priest in attendance called upon him to renounce the devil. "This is no time," he said, "to be making new enemies".

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Reports of deathbed pronouncements are notoriously inaccurate.

 

[Ed Fowler]

"Don't force it - Get a bigger hammer"

"Slower than fish in a dusty road"

My first boss Al Jennings

 

[tlawler]

Not sure if anyone posted this one yet.

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like...victory"
Paraphrasing LTC Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now.

 

[Chuck24]

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

 

[crazyphil]

"Every revolver carried concealed for defense should be double action
only (DAO). This reduces the danger of a hair trigger discharge, and it
reduces the possibility of a snag or hang up on the draw." - Me

 

[crazyphil]

"We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop

 

[Ed Fowler]

"Neither a maiden or a nation can be forgiven for a moments indiscretion"
About Germany in the late 30's to 1945.

 

[shouldazagged]

From Steven Wright:

"You cna't have everything. Where would you keep it?"

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."

"I have a microwave fireplace. I can spend a relaxing evening in front of it in eight minutes."

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Skeptic 9c]

"Doom despair and agony on me, deep dark depression, excessive misery." Lyric from a C&W song which applies the the USofA for the last 8 years or so.
Geoff
Who is a cynic.

 

[cndrdk]

Hold my beer while I light this <Lefty>
Man who stand on toilet, high on pot <Confucius>

 

[Gulfecho]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn7o65oOlsk[/ame]

 

[crazyphil]

On S&W Hand Ejectors 1896-1961 there is a post titled Jack Webb's
.44 Magnum. Very good thread. Reminded me of one of Joe Friday's
quotes that I like a lot. Here is the story:
A few years ago there were some F-15s training out at Gowen Field here
in Boise. Some of the folks were writing letters to the editor complaining
about the noise.
Reminded me of a Dragnet episode. Joe and his partner Ben were
standing on a lady's porch conversing with her when some fighter
planes flew over. The lady said did you ever hear such a racket in
your life? Joe answered: "Yes Mam, at Pearl Harbor."

 

[Skeptic 9c]

From: https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/ the original blog.

"America used to produce many of the world's goods. Detroit and the industrial plant that city symbolized was the envy of the world, and Pittsburgh produced steel for the world. Neither is a symbol of productivity today. Capitalism requires creative destruction; but I would have thought it also requires good schools, loyal citizens, settled households and neighborhoods, people who are accustomed to self government, and a measure of stability.

Instead, we have an enormous and growing national debt – one we don't just owe it to ourselves, not any more – an unemployable class which isn't even officially unemployed, the wreckage of a school system that once was the envy of the world; and we are apparently going to vote for eight more years of Hope and Change. "
Geoff
Who is terrified.

 

[chaparrito]

"Nobody would ever do anything, if they knew what they were in for".
Amarante Cordova de Milagro

 

[jackell]

don't play leapfrog with a unicorn.

 

[Lee's Landing Billy]

Told to me to help me when I needed it..Women seek security...Men seek approval. You ever see that last part in any posts on here???

 

[PALADIN85020]

Told to me to help me when I needed it..Women seek security...Men seek approval. You ever see that last part in any posts on here???

Some of us guys seek good Bourbon whiskey.

John

 

[LittleCooner]

Man who fly airplane upside down, bound to have crack up! Confucius saying from 5th Grade

 

[fdw]

The proud see no end in their inheritance, the humble see their inheritance in the end.