Quotes & Sayings...

[RookieGuy]

"Don't wait for inspiration. [Go] out after it with a club." -Jack London

"Whether you think you can't, or think you can, you're right." -Henry Ford

"I'm your platoon sergeant, not your drinking buddy. You don't have to like me, you just have to do what I tell you." - SFC John "Killer" Rose

And one that's been hitting closer and closer to home as my children get older. "I used to be with it. Then they changed what 'it' is. Now I'm with isn't 'it' and what's 'it' is scary and confusing. And it'll happen to you!" -Abraham J. "Grandpa" Simpson

 

[Ettrick puffer]

You can’t make honey out of dog ? Grandad Johnstone
Do you know how to get your own back ? Piss against the wind.
Ettrick puffer

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"Honesty is the best Policy."
-Benjamin Franklin

 

[Ettrick puffer]

 

[kcghost]

"We all have crosses to bear in life and most are self inflicted".

Me

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"A bird in hand is better than two in the thicket."
-fm. English proverb

 

[Zack Miller]

I’ve been miserable poor and miserable rich. I’d rather be miserable rich.

 

[RonB]

There’s only one thing better than having something good, and that’s knowing that you have it.

—my grandmother, who had a million of them.

 

[renfield]

In reference to structural design but apropos to many things

“It can only be on time once, but it can be a piece of shit forever”. — Me.

 

[Kapnosis1988]

The Law sees the wrathful man, the wrathful man does not see the law.
"Lex videt iratum, iratus legem non videt."

- Pubilius Syrus (85-43BC)

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

I feel sorry for people who don't drink, when they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day!

~ Winston Churchill.

People who cannot control their emotions will seek to control your actions instead.

~ John Cleese.

 

[kcghost]

"Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more".

Song was written by David Allen Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck.

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"Better late than never."
-Chaucer 1386

 

[LotusEater]

“When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole”
- John Lydon

 

[Kapnosis1988]

I would like to voice the contrary:

"Never judge a book by its cover."

 

[RonB]

As I get older, I think this quote from the 1983 movie: The Big Chill is more and more appropriate. It was said by the "boring" husband of one of the group of friends. He was a devoted family man.

"You set your priorities straight and that's what life is...no one ever said it would be fun, at least.... no one ever said it to me."

 

[tenton]

Your ass is the blackest.

If you don't like it, leave.

 

[mikefu]

People who cannot control their emotions will seek to control your actions instead.

True that.

 

[mikefu]

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago"
-van Goethe