Great Quotes

[topd]

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines. The Army's bayonets may as well be paperweights!
Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. Army; 12 February 1918

 

[tombraider]

If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture. -Mitch Headberg

 

[topd]

You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is..... they are.



Father Kevin Keaney

1st Marine Division, Navy Chaplain

Korean War - 1952

 

[crazypipe]

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
- Kahlil Gibran -

 

[drwatson]

Do or do not...there is no try!- Yoda

 

[topd]

The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,

The love of a staunch true man,

The love of a baby, unafraid,

Have existed since time began.
But the greatest of loves, The quintessence of loves.

even greater than that of a mother,

Is the tender, passionate, infinite love,

of one drunken Marine for another.
"Semper Fidelis"
General Louis H. Wilson

Commandant of the Marine Corps

Toast given at 203rd Marine Corps Birthday Ball

Camp Lejueune, N.C. 1978

 

[cynyr]

"I am just going outside and may be some time."
Captain Lawrence Oates
There are so many things that make this a Great Quote.

 

[crazypipe]

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
- Wayne W. Dyer -

 

[drwatson]

A man who can't look another man in the hairy eyeball and tell him he's heavy on the sap ain't much of a man.
Albert Soady

 

[sandblassted]

" Your fear is always about what’s going to happen next. That means your fear is always about that which does not exist. If your fear is about the nonexistent, your fear is 100% imaginary. If you are suffering the non-existential, we call that insanity."
I do not know who I am quoting.

 

[trailspike48]

Today Leonard Nemoy is 82 years young.
Live long and prosper. Spock

 

[lordofthepiperings]

"Marriage is like a slurpie. The first few sips you're like, 'Oh this is good.'. A few minutes later you're going ow ow ow! Then you're stupid enough to take another sip."- Walter
"There's a perfectly good explanation for this which I will make up later."- Alfalfa from the Little Rascals
"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary." - Ernest Hemingway
"Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold."- Johnny "Johnnycakes" Cade from The Outsiders

 

[crazypipe]

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
- Thomas Chandler -

 

[crazypipe]

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back!

Don't expect love in return;

Just wait for it to grow in their heart,

But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.

 

[carlomarx]

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."

- Hemingway

 

[cavendish]

"Don't hold in your farts. They travel up your spine and that's how shi**y ideas are born."

 

[theboz]

"The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions."
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing"
“Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable"
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
And of course the one in my signature:

“There are two types of people; those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are.""
Sorry I don't know the sources.

 

[cajunguy]

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov

 

[yazamitaz]

This is absolutely a great thread. I enjoyed reading all of these. I was going to throw in some of my favorite Marine Corps quotes, but of course, Top will always beat the corporal to the punch
Instead, I reflect back to something I read when I studied martial arts but apparently Bud Wilkinson (Sooner Football coach) is getting credit on Google for this quote:
"The man that tries and fails is superior to the man that never tries at all"

 

[crazypipe]

Our instinct is like a sword which protects our soul. Our life experiences forge our swords, but our swords are chipped and damaged from all of the battles which we have fought, during our lifetime. We have to hone our sword and smooth the rough edges, to allow our instinct to be more effective. If we do not hone the sword which is our instinct, we will continue to get caught on the rough edges. ::