Favorite Quotes

[jbett98]

"How low do you have to be to let the devil lead you home"

Stuart Turton

 

[64MercurysRule]

That while he was "for extending the right of suffrage (or in other words the right of a citizen) to all who had a permanent intention of living in the country … Whoever intends to live in a country must wish that country well, and has a natural right of assisting in the preservation of it."

Thomas Jefferson 1776

 

[Stomper]

I had more freedom than I knew what to do with, so I did nothing instead- and then blamed it on everybody else.

 

[64MercurysRule]

"A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box." - Frederick Douglass

 

[64MercurysRule]

"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism." - Thomas Sowell

 

[Mikej]

"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose. But you can't eat your friends. Or can you?"

S. Bolliger
C. '70s

 

[Retired Guy]

Colin Bell, English WW2 RAF pilot, on his longevity as he turned 104.

"It's a combination of exercise, alcohol, and the love of good women; with the odd bad one thrown in!"
Mr. Bell flew Mosquito bombers and survived 50 raids over Germany.

Second World War Mosquito pilot and legendary RAF hero Colin Bell turns 104

RAF veteran Flt Lt Colin Bell flew the de Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber and survived 50 raids over Germany.

www.forcesnews.com

 

[padraig]

"He who dies with the most toys wins."

 

[Mrmerlinn]

 

[Quirt Evans]

"Nothing is quite so exhilarating as being shot at and missed".
Winston Churchill

Side note: He fought on horseback using a Mauser pistol at the battle of Omdurman in 1898.
Shooting people at ranges where "you can see the whites of their eyes".
He was no stranger to violence.

 

[Mikej]

Colin Bell, English WW2 RAF pilot, on his longevity as he turned 104.

"It's a combination of exercise, alcohol, and the love of good women; with the odd bad one thrown in!"
Mr. Bell flew Mosquito bombers and survived 50 raids over Germany.

Second World War Mosquito pilot and legendary RAF hero Colin Bell turns 104

RAF veteran Flt Lt Colin Bell flew the de Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber and survived 50 raids over Germany.

www.forcesnews.com

Bless his heart!

Currently reading a 500 page book on D-Day. Good to see GB banning "Zombie Knives". That goes a long way toward their safety from other countries.

 

[Retired Guy]

Bless his heart!

Currently reading a 500 page book on D-Day. Good to see GB banning "Zombie Knives". That goes a long way toward their safety from other countries.

I just started reading "Ghosts of Honolulu". An untold story of the Pearl Harbor attack. The author is Mark Harmon, the actor. So far, it's pretty good!

 

[Duneblaster]

"Sig is suckee suckee"

 

[GI JEW 555]

"I am loosing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news!"

- John Muir

 

[hongkong2]

Take what you can get over 50% and run like a thief.
My Sicilian grandmother.

 

[monks]

"I am loosing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news!"

- John Muir

Boy I'm feeling that!

 

[Martini_Up]

When the banner unfurles all reason is in the bugle.

 

[Stomper]

 

[64MercurysRule]

We can't change the inevitable. But we can change how we respond. After all, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react.

Charles Swindoll

 

[TTSX]

We can't change the inevitable. But we can change how we respond. After all, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react.

Charles Swindoll

Unless what happens is being eaten alive by a sabertooth tiger the day you were born