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05 August 2022, 13:02
NormanConquestQuotes
We haven't done this in a while but I was in conversation with another member + this recalled me to the subject so I will start out. This is from Mark Twain;" You can raise a child on the cost of one vice."
Never mistake motion for action.
20 August 2022, 06:10
TCLouisThose who choose their friends by their wealth and social stature, usually deserve them.
UNK
Don't limit your challenges . . .
Challenge your limits
20 August 2022, 10:57
lavacaThere are two kinds of people.
Those that listen to good advice; and
Those that have to pee on the electric fence.
21 August 2022, 07:16
customboltThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself!
FDR
Life itself is a gift. Live it up if you can.
21 August 2022, 07:50
Michael Robinson"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."
- Woody Allen
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
21 August 2022, 07:52
Michael Robinson"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."
- Friedrich Nietsche
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
21 August 2022, 08:04
Michael Robinson"Cogito ergo sum."
- Rene Descartes
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
21 August 2022, 08:05
Norman ConquestThere are folks in government that shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. Will Rogers.
21 August 2022, 08:05
Michael Robinson"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
21 August 2022, 08:30
Michael Robinson“e = mc2”
- Albert Einstein
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
21 August 2022, 08:33
Michael Robinson“Death only ends what we know. It begins everything else.”
- Anon
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
22 August 2022, 04:13
richjIn Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, While In Practice There Is
24 August 2022, 08:56
Norman ConquestI have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he exites among his opponents. Winston Churchill.
24 August 2022, 10:12
Norman ConquestThis is one that I have used for many occasions with good right from Benjamin Franklin, "A cat that sits on a hot stove will never set on a hot stove again, nor will it ever sit on a cold one.
24 August 2022, 16:13
SaeedWhen the brain is dead, the body suffers.
25 August 2022, 08:54
lavacaMark Twain, Winston Churchill, and George S Patton said a lot of my favorites. And then there is Tom T. Hall:
Sitting on the world we are all wanting to win; and his best:
Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money.
25 August 2022, 08:59
Norman ConquestI cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill.
25 August 2022, 09:04
Norman ConquestNo man is a good citizen unless he so acts as to show that he actually uses the ten commandments, and translates the Golden Rule into his life conduct. Theodore Roosevelt in the forward of the manual of the "Boy Scouts Of America". Circa 1911.
25 August 2022, 09:10
Norman ConquestLavaca, I loved that song as well as Tom T.s others. "I said I was a poet, my soul was all on fire." He looked at me + said, "You are a liar." then when he went on, "There was something cold + shiney right beside my head + I started to believe the words he said."
26 August 2022, 07:38
Scott KingWe know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar Bradley.
27 August 2022, 09:06
Norman ConquestWinston Churchill on Charles De Gaulle "He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath."
And on Neville Chamberlain "He was given the choice between war + dishonor. He chose dishonor + he will have war anyway."
31 August 2022, 08:48
lavacaMark Twain:
There are three types of people in the world. Those that learn by reading about it. Those that learn by watching others' mistakes. And those that just have to pee on the electric fence.
31 August 2022, 08:52
lavacaMy mistake, I think it was Will Rodgers. Couldn't have been Twain.
31 August 2022, 09:29
Norman ConquestYou are right, Lavaca, it was Will Rogers. Here's one from Abraham Lincoln, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
08 September 2022, 09:35
Norman ConquestOf all the thoughts of word or pen,
The saddest is, "it might have been."
08 September 2022, 20:10
Jerry FiskLincoln said "Those that can't skin can hold a leg". That's the view that is missing today.
09 September 2022, 07:28
Norman ConquestGive not council to your fears. G.S. Patton
09 September 2022, 23:05
Scott KingBlessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9.
10 September 2022, 07:40
Norman Conquest"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake + thine other infirmities."
1st Timothy 5-22
12 September 2022, 09:23
Norman Conquest"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest." Oscar Wilde.
13 September 2022, 14:08
Norman ConquestAlways do sober what you said you would do drunk. If nothing else, it will teach you to keep your mouth shut!..... E. Hemingway.
18 September 2022, 14:20
Norman Conquest"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action". James Russell Lowell.
19 September 2022, 10:41
Michael Robinson“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
- Dorothy Parker
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
24 September 2022, 08:37
Norman ConquestSpecialization is for insects + moderation is for monks. Robert Heinlin
25 September 2022, 09:57
Norman ConquestTo win back my youth, there is nothing I would not do- except, of course, take exercise, rise early, or give up tobacco + Alcohol. Oscar Wilde
26 September 2022, 10:24
Norman ConquestHaving money is not important; it's NOT having money that's important. Me.
27 September 2022, 09:12
Norman ConquestIf you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker
29 September 2022, 09:08
Norman ConquestThe trouble is that the stupid people-who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations-do believe and are molded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper. Mark Twain
29 September 2022, 18:34
cgbachHeard this the other day on a replay of an old TV show.
'When you are in Hell where do you tell someone to go?'. Red Skelton.
30 September 2022, 08:00
Norman Conquest"I'd rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me." George S. Patton.