I want to start a new one here concerning memorable quotes that we have found inspiring or interesting. I will start with two.#1-He who goes unarmed in Paradise had better be sure that that is where he is.'Thurber'. #2-(This should be carved in stone above every high school front door.) "Happiness may never be sensibly pursued as an end in itself,because happiness is the by product of achievement." 'Parkinson'.

Don't get mad, get even. Never pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he will just kill you.

No replies as of yet?We do have a quoram of intelligent people here.Some must have missed the boat.I will install one more."The Socialists aim at the maximum of regulations and the conservatives aim at the minimum. W. Churchill'.

Distrust + caution are the parents of security.'Benjamin Franklin' Come on lads,don't make me do this all by myself.

I collect quotations and use many of them for examples or to impart advice, often to my kids. If I know the source, I will quote it. Many of the following are well known, but that doesn't make their message any less valid.

Since this is one I have used often, I will lead a long list with it. The "scarce in that", I usually leave off.

1)"Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that." B. Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758

2) Too soon old, too late smart.

3) Give a child a hammer and the whole world is a nail.

4) "We don't see things as they are, but as we are." Anais Nin

Not really a pithy quote, but one that has meaning in daily life......

5) Ecclesiastes 3
King James Version (KJV)

1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

And similar....not bad for a non-religious person.....

6)"Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."

by Max Ehrmann

And this is one of my favorite story/quotes which is from Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyon. The point, which I've tried to make clear to my kids is don't play the other man's game.

The background is that Sky Masterson, a master gambler, has broken everyone gambling, including his Daddy, in his small Colorado town and is leaving on the train for greener gambling pastures in New York. His Daddy (and I don't have the book in front of me to get the whole section exactly correct) says "Son, you've won all my money, so all I can give you is some good advice....

7) "Son, one of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider."

And another Damon Runyon favorite:

8) "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."

9) “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau

10) ""Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". - W. Shakespeare Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).

And boys and girls, I don't want to hog this thread, 10 in a row is enough for now. Hopefully, as N. Conquest says, these will remind you of some of your favorites.

Ah, hell, one more for the amateur gunsmiths among us:

11) If the parts don't fit, get a bigger hammer.

Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure.

"Blessed are they who expect nothing..... For they shall not be disappointed".

You know my program was "Give 'em Hell" + if they don't like it give 'em more hell. I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth + they thought it was hell. "Harry Truman"

Moderation in temper is always a virtue;but moderation in principle is always a vice. 'Thomas Paine'

Vengeance is mine saith the LORD.

and my fathers favorite
what to expect from a hog but a grunt
he used this often in describing peoples actions

It is better to keep your mouth closed and have those around you wonder if you may be a fool, than open your mouth and prove their suspicions correct !

I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

"'Corruptisimi republica pluramae leges" (The more corrupt the state,the more numerous the laws." Tacitus Anals 111 27

A man may occasianally stumble across the truth,but most of the time he will pick him self up agin + carry on. "Winston Churchill"

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual
= emotional immaturity. "Sigmund Freud"

My Friends, although it probably makes no difference would you please give a name to the quotee. Thank you.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual
= emotional immaturity. "Sigmund Freud"

Just FYI, not trying to be critical, the above quote was never said or written by Freud. There are many false attributions of quotes out there. Thomas Jefferson seems to be a favorite.

12) "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." W. C. Fields

13) "Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it." Will Rogers

And, not to stop on an unlucky number....

14)The Hunter

The hunter crouches in his blind
'Neath camouflage of every kind
And conjures up a quacking noise
To lend allure to his decoys
This grown-up man, with pluck and luck
is hoping to outwit a duck
Ogden Nash

Sorry Charlie, Concerning the Freud quote I was just repeating what Jeff Cooper wrote.Back to the quotes however: " Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted." Also."Saving is a very fine thing,especially when your parents have done it for you." 'Winston Churchill' One more:"No experience is so conductive to steady + accurate shooting as the knowledge of the impossibily to escape by speed."'Sir Samuel Baker'

Vapodog has a great quote as his tagline when he post. Every American should know it, hate it and avoid it.
Socialism does NOT work !

More from Will Rogers, a great source....

15) "It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

16) "The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

Here is one I am saying more frequently: 'Youth is wasted on the young.'

Tom

Tom,before getting back to quotations just a thought on your post. Years ago in my favorite comic strip "Peanuts" Lucy says to Linus,"Would'nt it be great to come back knowing all you know now?" To which Linus replies,"What do I know now?" Linus was always my favorite + heaven knows we have all met a few Lucy's.

Government,like fire,is a dangerous servant + a fearful master. 'George Washington'

This country,with it's institutions,belongs to the people that inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it. 'Abraham Lincoln,April 4,1861'

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
Government,like fire,is a dangerous servant + a fearful master. 'George Washington'

Again, nothing personal, but, many of the "applicable" quotes for today's politics of the Founding Fathers are spurious. This is one of them. There is no record of Washington saying or writing this line.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. John Dalberg-Action

Every twat I have ever met has had a woman attached to it.
AND therein lies the problem/conundrum !
Me

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
-Mark Twain

As a 5th grade teacher this should not be my favorite quote but it is.


When parents try to apologize for taking their kids out of school for a week to go on a family trip I reply with the above quote.

I believe it was Nathan Bedford Forrest that said - Build a man a fire and he is warm for only one night. Set a man on fire and he is warm the rest of his life.