Favorite Quotes

[Member 53867]

A few from my favorite author, Dick Francis

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.



May I deal with honor,
May I act with courage,
May I achieve humility.

 

[Member 53867]

One more

"Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't."

 

[MNO]

"Don't let your balls get bigger than your brains."
My dad

 

[MNO]

"Don't try to rationalize with a hard on."
My dad

 

[Mikej]

You can pick your friends ..... You can pick your nose ..... But you can't pick your friends nose .

I always heard that different from an old friend/next door neighbor from 5th grade, now passed, that I fished, then partied hardy partied with.

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

 

[SharkyBruce]

"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."
--Friedrich Schiller,
German poet, philosopher, historian and playwright

"You can't fix stupid."
--Ron White,
American philosopher and comedian

 

[albin25]

" You can try to run…
…. but you're only gonna die tired!"
-Ripper, Belgian Malinois

 

[Member 53867]

"I drank what...?"
--Socrates

 

[Jay Walk]

"Defunding the Police will reduce crime"

Lefty

 

[monks]

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." Thomas Paine

"Few things in life are as perfect as we would want them to be." Robert Walker

 

[Hemlock]

After a 5-year-old farm boy asks his grandpa for the umpthteenth time, "What are you going to do now?"
"I'm gonna spit in your shoe and tell your mom it was you!"

I still have no idea what it meant.

 

[Member 53867]

"I never said that."
--Confucius

 

[Member 53867]

"I never said that, either."
--Confucius (later that same day)

 

[2ndtimer]

"You can drink 'em pretty, but you can't drink 'em thin."
Not sure of the original, but heard it from my buddy Pat

 

[Greenbug]

I thought it would take longer to get old.

 

[Member 53867]

I thought it would take longer to get old.

That sounds familiar.

 

[Stpierre87]

So if this has been done please merge or delete. If any rules are broken not my intention..

I seen a meme post and thought this may be something fun as well as educational. I have always been a fan of quotes if you have a good one please post it with who it's from. This is not a posting to go on a rant.

So, my favorite quote is on a board in my house and this quote is one I have been looking a lot at recently.

So, I'll start.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the blood stream, it must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children, our children's children what it was once like in the the United States where men were free." (Ronald Regan)

Not all who wonder are lost

 

[Knobgoblin]

".....you guys are mean......

Mods , please delete this thread "

Signed, some new guy with thin skin.

 

[Member 53867]

"What the hell was THA..." -- Mayor of Hiroshima, 8/6/45

 

[Member 53867]

"Sic Nos Sic Sacra Tuemur"
"Thus We Defend Our Sacred Rights"
--Family Motto