What is your favorite motto??

[Sistema1927]

Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium

 

[therevjay]

"I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way"...Mark Twain

 

[mudcat100]

I might be fat,but you're ugly,and I can lose weight!

 

[HERMAN.40]

Why is it there's never enough time to do the job right, But always enough time to do it over?

 

[MWnBC]

Walk quiet and carry a big stick

Put your mind in motion before you put your mouth in gear

 

[jkmo]

If fire power isn't working you're not using enough......

 

[trapper704]

My dad always said if you think someone is screwing with you there is no need for only one of you to be mad about it.

 

[BigG-n-Tn]

An original from my Dad and passed on to my children:

"If you tell everybody your business, you ain't got no business. You've done told it all"

Add strong Southern accent

 

[Old cop]

"What you tolerate you teach."

I'm not sure who said it but it goes toward standing up to those who put down others, and not remaining silent because it is convenient.

 

[ditrina]

Two..

Never tell anyone outside the family what you are thinking..
and
Leave the gun..take the cannoli...

 

[doublesharp]

In God we trust. All others pay cash.

 

[John F.]

"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."
Robert E. Lee, CSA

"There's the way we want things to be, and there's the way things are."
Sgt Elias, "Platoon"

"Sarge, it just be's that way sometimes." A member of my platoon, helping me to learn to accept "the way things are." Ft. Polk, LA, c. 1982

 

[Sprefix]

Second favorite motto....

Poor planning on your part does not facilitate an emergency on my part!!

 

[Cyrano]

I'm not as far under the affluence of incohol as some thinkle peep, but the longer I sit here the drunker I get.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog; Dwight Eisenhower.

 

[6thtexas]

"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"

 

[NA225]

Favorite Quotes

"There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it."
and
"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates."
Adm. Arleigh Burke

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition"
Lt. Howell Maurice Forgy, USN Chaplin

 

[carbuff]

My favorites:

Motto of the Black Watch:
Nemo me impune lacessit (no man provokes me with impunity).

Boy Scouts: Be Prepared

Business: Never Assume

Wisest of Vulcans: Live long and Prosper



Two by W.E.B. Griffin:

"The true test of another man's intelligence is the degree to which he agrees with you."

" When you have a subordinate who knows what he is doing, get out of his way and let him do his work."

 

[Rickyyy]

The road out side my house is paved with good intentions.

 

[jimmyj]

"From The Grave There Is No Parole, Probation, Or Pardon"

"Always Outnumbered, Never Out Fought"

"There Are Cops, And There Are Shirts Holding Up Badges"

"Real Cops Patrol The Streets, Desk Bound Commandos Hold Down Desks Inside"

 

[Mule88]

"Fight Crime......Shoot Back"