Your Favorite Aphorism

[ChuckS1]

My wife's favorite: You can agree with me or be wrong.

My first First Sergeant's advice to me as a new 2LT: You make your own luck, Eltee.

 

[GyMac]

No good deed goes unpunished.

 

[Evil Dog]

There's 3 kinds of people in this world, those that can count and those that can't.

 

[V1 Rotate]

Heard several times while a weekend racer:
"If you don't have time to do it right, you're going to need to find time to do it again."

 

[A10]

This one from my dad:

"Don't let your mouth write checks that your "posterior" can't cash"

 

[ogilvyspecial]

This one from my dad:

"Don't let your mouth write checks that your "posterior" can't cash"

In a similar vein from my Dad, which I still don't get, even though I knew what it meant.

He talks like a man with a paper "posterior hole."

 

[ACP230]

From an old blues song:

"There's two kind of people I just can't stand,
A lyin' woman and a thievin' man..."

From my great uncle:

"In the U.P. we have nine months of winter and
three months of bad sledding."

From The Havamal:
"Never part with your weapons when you are in the field. You never
know when, on some lengthy plain, you may suddenly need your spear." (Used to be my signature here.)

From me:
"Everything happens on the same weekend."

 

[cussedemgun]

"Don't drink & drive, - alcohol causes accidents!"

"Don't drink & park, - accidents cause people!"

 

[kudzu3]

Just 'cause somebody wrote it, don't make it right. I must've heard this a thousand times from my daddy.

 

[chud333]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.



chuck

 

[ogilvyspecial]

If you're gonna be shootin' full sized people, you should be shootin' full sized bullets.

 

[David LaPell]

One I have used at work

"It's a shame your dad bought the six pack of beer instead of the box of condoms."

One my father in law used to say about promiscous women-

If you put your butt up against a buzz saw you never know which tooth hits you.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

John Wayne in The Shootist

 

[papajohn428]

Be it in competition or a shootout, you can't miss fast enough to catch up.

In a gunfight, there's no such thing as Too Much Ammo!

 

[guy22]

Always store beer in a dark place.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it!

It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another--but which one? Differences are crucial.

What a wonderful world it is that has girls in!

Guy22

 

[Dominus_Lex]

Remember the light at the end of the tunnel might just be a train.

You will reap what you sow

Money cannot buy love, just a good facsimile

and I have to agree with A10

It's good to be the King....

 

[TANKER]

An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity. I usually use this when people ask me why I always carry.

If your not shootin', you should be reloadin', if your not reloadin' you should be movin', if your not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick !!!

I like this one better: I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me, than a pre-frontal lobotomy!

Life is tough, it's tougher if your stupid!

And last but not least: What part of no don't you understand?

 

[teesur]

Both from Lewis Burwell Puller, USMC:
"You can't hurt em if you don't hit em".
and,
"We're surrounded! That simplifies our problem".
teesur.

 

[noslolo]

"stay calm and carry on" Winston Churchhill.
a another favorite one that I use on my son all the time is "I would agree with you, but then we would both be wrong"
and
Luck is just opportunity meeting preparedness

 

[noslolo]

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions

 

[noslolo]

When encountering a bear while camping, you don't have to be able to run faster than the bear. Just faster than then slowest camper.