What is your favorite motto??

[bobsdad]

One of my Great Uncles often would ask unapologetically:
"Will this interfere with my drinking?"
(Yes, he died in the late from live 1960's of liver cancer, but at the age of 86.)

And from Mark Twain:
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."

 

[G.T. Smith]

My Dad speaking to me about moderation: Son, you have to learn how to scratch your *** without tearing out chunks of meat.
And speaking on caution: Never get in the water 'till you know how to swim. G.T. Smith Sr.

merry new years, Happy Christmas to all,
gordon

 

[walnutred]

"It's all fun and games until someone gets pregnant." I saw it on a bumper sticker.

I used to work with a woman who would say: It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's just fun.

 

[Dueeast]

Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

 

[jag312]

I don't forget, I don't forgive, and I don't take prisoners.

 

[Andy Griffith]

With self-discipline, most anything is possible.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick.

 

[feralmerril]

I would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
Any landing that you can walk away from is a good landing.
There are old pilots and bold pilots. But there are no old bold pilots!
Never the horse that couldnt be rode, never the man who couldnt be throwd.
If it tastes good, spit it out!
A honest man aint got nothing to say.
He that has his hands in his pockets has precious little in them!

 

[sheriffoconee]

"You can't send a duck to eagle school"...

 

[scootergirl69]

What...no Boy Scouts in the crowd??

BE PREPARED!!

 

[bubbiesdad]

I have a couple which were in my sig line before the character limit.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M Nixon
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
Jeff Cooper
Then there is my current sig line which I searched for to find one that would fit.
It relates a little to the Nixon quote.

 

[Trooperdan]

TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch - Robert Heinlien

 

[dkees]

1. They were not always right, but they were always sure.
R. Nixon about his advisors

2. The children kill the frog in jest but the frog dies in earnest. Anon

3. God's on the side with the best artillery. U.S. Grant

4. The job of vice president does not amount to a warm bucket of spit. H. Truman when he was vp

 

[walter o]

How about "I don't get mad ,I get even

 

[kobsw]

There are already a few posts that pertain to these but I thought I'd through them out here anyway...

Poor planning on your part does not make an emergency on mine.

Work smarter not harder.

The world don't owe you so get off your butt.

He's a legend in his own mind.

You have a big mouth and nothing to back it up with.

You're writing checks your *** cant cash.

My friend's father, who was not a trusting sort, would say to us.

"if someone were to break into his house he'd fire only one warning shot to the chest"

Kobsw...

 

[Ragnar]

"I swear--by my life and my love for it--that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." from the novel 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

 

[DeathGrip]

A bad day fishing beats a good day working.

 

[cowart]

"We deal in lead friend" (movie "The Magnificent Seven")

"Today is not yesterday's tomorrow, and it never was"

 

[The Highlander]

I got a couple:

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It only annoys the pig, and makes you look foolish. (My Grandfather)

Never trust a man that smiles all the time. He's either up to something, is an idiot, or thinks YOU are an idiot. (My grandfather) I always think of this one when I see Joe Biden on tv for some reason.

There's more of them than there are of us. (My stepfather, discussing idiots)

Work, work, work, work! (From the greatest movie of all time, Blazing Saddles)

Badges? We don't need no stinking badges! (Blazing Saddles)

I've got a bunch more, just can't think of them right now.

 

[Iggy]

As sayings go, this is one I always enjoyed.

That feller is all hat and no cattle.

 

[Mitch_D]

"Stupidity might not kill you, but it sure can make you sweat"

"You can't know how little I care" - Monte Walsh