Great "Quotes" Through The Ages:

[clearconscience]

Think like a proton, always positive.

Do not regret growing old. It's a privilege denied to many.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.

 

[clearconscience]

- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels.
If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand, lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

 

[NoFlinch]

"I always think positively, even though I know it's a waste of time".
noflinch

 

[IronMonster]

"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms" - Thomas Jefferson

 

[mikeybuck]

Sometimes it is easier too ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.

 

[Gator Monroe]

When "Miller" (Tracy Walters) said to "Otto" (Emilio Estevez) in the 1983 film "Repo Man" ( " The more you drive the less intelligent you are, I do my best thinking on the Bus.")

 

[jbett98]

 

[IronMonster]

 

[NoFlinch]

YAMAMOTO:

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

• • ..... "unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan's wartime fleet ever saying it.", according to Brooks Jackson ...............
  
  (This info. from Wikipedia, for whatever that's worth.....)

 

[Gator Monroe]

@NoFlinch The Progressive Anti-Gun left and the America Haters have really gone on a zeitgeist to poo poo and vilify and discredit this profound utterance by Yamamoto . It was witnessed by many Imperial Navy officers and chronicled in various publications in both Japanese & English.

 

[NoFlinch]

@NoFlinch The Progressive Anti-Gun left and the America Haters have really gone on a zeitgeist to poo poo and vilify and discredit this profound utterance by Yamamoto . It was witnessed by many Imperial Navy officers and chronicled in various publications in both Japanese & English.

YA, hence the "Wikipedia disclaimer".

Thanks for that input.

I have never been certain about that quote. Seemed to be viable until recently.

Then I learned that ANYONE can write for Wikipedia............YOU CAN.....so their credibility is DEFINITELY IN QUESTION.

(It all started when I read something about Obama on wiki that I thought was not true, so I researched Wiki...).

 

[2beaucoup]

"I did not have sex with that woman"
"I am not a crook."
"I'll be back."

 

[NoFlinch]

"There is no list and you are not on it..."

Who is that attributed to?

 

[Barney]

Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and promoted by mainstream media which holds forth the premise that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
annual contest winner at Bond University, Australia 2014

 

[Just Jim]

Don't eat this or don't eat that, It's not what goes into the mouth that defouls you but what comes out of it.