Favorite Quotes

[HB of CJ]

"When Guns Are Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Have Guns". Unknown

"No Matter Where You Go, There You Are." Buckaroo Bonzi; an actually good movie

 

[Larrytpdx]

"No Matter Where You Go, There You Are."

I believe that's originally attributed to Confucius.

 

[Capn Jack]

Fill Your Hand You Son-of-a-Bixch ! John Wayne (Marshal Rooster Cogburn) "True Grit"

 

[ZigZagZeke]

"... By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you."
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

 

[ZigZagZeke]

"Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner. This is the smallest caliber pistol cartridge made; but it is also one of the most accurate and easy to hit with, since the pistol has no recoil. I have killed many horses with it, cripples and bear baits, with a single shot, and what will kill a horse will kill a man. I have hit six dueling silhouettes in the head with it at regulation distance in five seconds. It was this type of pistol that Millen boys' colleague, Abe Faber, did all his killings with. Yet this same pistol bullet fired at point blank range will not dent a grizzly's skull, and to shoot a grizzly with a .22 caliber pistol would simply be one way of committing suicide"
― Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway on Hunting

 

[ZigZagZeke]

"A community, especially if it is a rural community, is understood by its public servants as provincial, backward and benighted, unmodern, unprogressive, unlike 'us,' and therefore in need of whatever changes are proposed for it by outside interests (to the profit of the outside interests). Anyone who thinks of herself or himself as a member of such a community will sooner or later see that the community is under attack morally as well as economically. And this attack masquerades invariably as altruism: the community must be plundered, expropriated, or morally offended for its own good—but its good is invariably defined by the interest of the invader. The community is not asked whether or not it wishes to be changed, or how it wishes to be changed, or what it wishes to be changed into. The community is deemed to be backward and provincial, it is taught to believe and to regret that it is backward and provincial, and it is thereby taught to welcome the purposes of its invaders."
—Wendell Berry

 

[ZigZagZeke]

"By God, Woodrow, it's been one helluva party." - Gus McCrae's last words, Lonesome Dove.

 

[albin25]

I don't know for sure if he originated it but he sure made it famous.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Chesterton was a friend of C. S. Lewis:

"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
― G.K. Chesterton

 

[ZigZagZeke]

"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"
― Steven Wright

 

[ZigZagZeke]

McCarthy is a favorite author of mine:

"When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?"
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

 

[Mark W.]

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

Frank Lloyd Wright

One of my favorites

 

[ZigZagZeke]

"If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

 

[jbett98]

"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."

Vladimir Lenin

 

[jbett98]

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."


Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[albin25]

Printed this up and framed it for my daughter when she went off to college...
From the film "Second Hand Lions".

 

[Hop Sing]

"I only know two songs. One is Yankee Doodle; the other isn't."

General U.S. Grant

 

[Hop Sing]

"If were up yer as* you'd know where it was."

My dad and many other dads.

 

[Hop Sing]

"If I knew I was gonna live this long I would have partied harder."

A buddy

 

[Jamie6.5]

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet."

I'm not sure who said it first, but I hear/read that it's part of the rules of the U.S.M.C.