Favorite quotes!
Here's some of my favorite quotes. Peruse at your leisure!
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"Those who would give up essential liberties for a measure of security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
- Benjamin Franklin
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
- Glenn Clark
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer.
Oh I grant you the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go
nearly as well with pizza." - Dave Barry
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
-Voltaire
"The art of leadership is getting someone to do something that needs to be done because they want to do it."
-Dwight Eisenhower.
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
Take my wife, please!
(Rodney Dangerfield)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
- W.C. Fields
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." W.C. Fields
"You will do what you want. All the rest is just talk."
-author unknown
'Semper.....Paratus....Fidelis'
Semper Fidelis "ALWAYS FAITHFUL'
'Humulus Humilibus Inflectatus Arrogantus' "humble to the humble.. Inflexible to the Arrogant!"
It's better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
n Albert Einstein
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig.
Proverbs 1:5 King Solomon, Son of David
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:...but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Never appeal to a man`s "better-nature". He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
-Lazarus Long
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You are as (Happy) or as (Sad) as you want to be.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not enough wit to be honest. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Don't argue with an ignorant man.
He will draw you down to his level and then beat you with experience.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. - Irish Proverb
Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd and never well mended. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit. -German Proverb
He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Never miss a good chance to shut up. (Will Rogers)
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. (Will Rogers)
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. (Will Rogers)
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. (Will Rogers)
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.- Bruce Lee
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." -- Thomas Jefferson
“The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena, whose face is marred by the dust and the sweat and the blood… not the critic who points out where the strong man stumbles… but he who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best in the end knows the triumph of high achievement and at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring great things so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls that know neither victory or defeat”.
--Theodore Roosevelt
No man is great if he thinks he is.- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them in that proportion.- Anon
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.- Elizabeth Taylor
Take a starving dog and make him prosperous and he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a woman. –Mark Twain
Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. Gallagher
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Originally Posted by cigarsarge
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