Quotes & Sayings...

[canucklehead]

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs.

Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.”

Henry Rollins

 

[gamzultovah]

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs.

Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.”

Henry Rollins

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A great article (for an old bodybuilder like me).

“I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.” ~ Henry Rollins

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

My two favourites.

”Such is life.” Ned Kelly just before being hanged.

“When I was young I used to pray for a bicycle every day but then I realised that that isn’t how it works so I stole a bicycle and prayed for forgiveness.” Attributed to Al Capone.

 

[brian64]

"Everything about America is looking more and more medieval — our rough living conditions, our lawlessness, our violent entertainments, our Hobbesian racketeering, our occult sexual preoccupations, our depraved elites, our quack science. Our center has not been holding for so long that hardly anyone even remembers where the center used to be. And now the bottom is falling out." -- James Howard Kunstler, April 2022

 

[Bengel]

There was a time when we honored those who created the prosperity and the freedom that we enjoy. Today we honor the complainers and sue the creators. Perhaps that is inevitable in an era when we no longer count our blessings, but instead count all our unfulfilled wishes.
Thomas Sowell

 

[Servant King]

"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left." - Aldous Huxley

 

[Bengel]

 

[FurCoat]

There was a time when I would have given my life to defend what America stood for, I now fear that I may have lay down my life to defend my family from what it has become.

 

[Bengel]

 

[Bengel]

"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem. They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away now." — Chesty Puller

 

[Bengel]

 

[brian64]

“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.” – George Carlin

 

[brian64]

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was “not done” to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in highbrow periodicals.

--George Orwell, from his essay “Freedom of the Press”, intended as a preface to Animal Farm

 

[Bengel]

 

[AJL67]

“ Nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! "Win with Winnie!" Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler, there was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!” - Franz Liebkind

 

[Jimmy_Jack]

“fuck fight or go for your gun”

my father

 

[AJL67]

The wise warrior avoids the battle. ~ Sun Tzu

 

[mawnansmiff]

"He who cuts his own firewood gets warm twice".

Regards,

Jay.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford".

Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Regards,

Jay.

 

[Bengel]

"At a time when liberty is under attack, decency is under assault, the family is under siege, and life itself is threatened, the good will arise in truth; they will arise with the very essence and substance of their lives; they will arise though they face opposition by fierce subverters; they will arise never shying from the Standard of truth, never shirking from the Author of truth." Henry Laurens (1724-1792)