Your Favorite Quotes Thread.

[cshold]

"The GOP never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Or putting it another way, they continually snatched defeat from the jaws of victory." Ysable Kid

[2ndovc]

"Don't cross the streams." - Egon

Thanks for the laugh!!
Hard to believe Egon has left us!

Harold was a brilliant comedian!

jb

[Gobblerforge]

"Don't cross the streams." - Egon

Thanks for the laugh!!
Hard to believe Egon has left us!

Harold was a brilliant comedian!

jb

You're welcome. Yes he was.

[jeepnik]

"Don't cross the streams." - Egon

Thanks for the laugh!!
Hard to believe Egon has left us!

Harold was a brilliant comedian!

jb

Funny, long before ghost busters that was something we told to newbies on the nozzle. Totally defeats the purpose.

[cshold]

“There’s nothing deader than a dead gun writer.” Jim Carmichel

[Larkbill]

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

Variously attributed to Abe Lincoln and Mark Twain, but most likely never said by either. The basic thought can be found in the Bible.

[Sixgun]

Don't eat yellow snow.

-6

[Mescalero]

Qui ipsos custotied es custodietes.

[jeepnik]

Qui ipsos custotied es custodietes.

And for us linguistically challenged, what the heck does that mean?

[vancelw]

Think of the word custody...

Who will watch the watchmen? Or, Who will guard the guards?

[Mescalero]

A Roman senator ( young ) once said that all things were good, as the Republic was guarded by the guardians.
An older, wiser member asked * who guards the guardians " ?

[Ravenman]

And now God help them, cause that's all the help they will get from us! John Wayne.

[octagon]

"Grab yer gal and pat her on the head, if she don't like biscuits, feed her cornbread"
Bob Wills, King of Western Swing

[Les Staley]

One of the guys here or on another forum uses: Have'n you along is like losing two good men... ( have used it myself a time or two..)

[sore shoulder]

How can a man die better, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers and temples of his gods. -Horatious, Baron Macauley

Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of War! - Bill S.

[cshold]

"Lead from the front." Audie Murphy

[AJMD429]

"...buzzards gotta eat, same as worms..."

[jeepnik]

"Grab yer gal and pat her on the head, if she don't like biscuits, feed her cornbread"
Bob Wills, King of Western Swing

Hmm, I grew up calling what Bob and his Texas Playboys played Texas Swing. Regardless, music just doesn't get any better than what Bob and his boys put out.

[octagon]

Some folks call it "cowboy jazz." "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

[Mescalero]

I went to school in Texas, I never learned to like that carp.

[octagon]

Mescalero I prefer Hendrix myself...But Bob Wills started the Texas Playboys in about 1934, did you go to school in Texas before or after that?

[Mescalero]

Well after that, but the radio station played a lot of that kind of thing.

[ByronG]

"Life is hard, it's even harder if your stupid" - John Wayne

Attributing that to John Wayne is like attributing words of Moses to Charlton Heston.

Its also a misquote, but close to a statement made by SGT Stryker, a fictitious character played by Wayne in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima.
The actual quote is:
"Life is tough, but its tougher if you're stupid"


In The Friends of Eddie Coyle, the character Jackie Brown (played by Steven Keats) says, "This life's hard, man, but it's harder if you're stupid!"

[cshold]

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
Douglas MacArthur

[Dave]

Being sorry doesn't fix expensive machinery or bring people back to life

[cshold]

"There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm." Patrick F. McManus

[Boreman]

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are misinformed" Mark Twain

[BAGTIC]

Mark Twain: "God invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

God invented Woman because He was disappointed in Man.

[jeepnik]

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
Douglas MacArthur

At least they only fired Dugout Doug. George was such a threat to the politicians that they killed him.

[jeepnik]

Mark Twain: "God invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

God invented Woman because He was disappointed in Man.

Proving even a supreme being can take a good thing and screw it up.

[sore shoulder]

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
Douglas MacArthur

At least they only fired Dugout Doug. George was such a threat to the politicians that they killed him.

And neither of them were innocent, ask the WWI vets they marched against on US soil.

[horsesoldier03]

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
Douglas MacArthur

At least they only fired Dugout Doug. George was such a threat to the politicians that they killed him.

And neither of them were innocent, ask the WWI vets they marched against on US soil.

I have heard the story of the Bonus Vets numerous times. Your comments prompted me to research it again. For those interested, the link below is factual and very interesting.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/m ... st=&page=1

[firefuzz]

"I hate rude behavior in a man. Won't tolerate it." Capt. Woodrow Call (Lonesome Dove)

"Life is hard, it's even harder if your stupid" - John Wayne

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."
John Wayne (The Shootist)

"All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else." John Wayne (In Harm's Way)

"I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God."
Lt. Col. Hal Moore

[mohavesam]

"Advice is what we ask for, when we already know the answer."
Erica Jong

from Mr. Einstein:

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

And of course, my signature line below.

[cshold]

"The day Gary Cooper walked into my shop, I knew things were looking up" Roy Weatherby

[1894]

" When we lived in Syracuse, we used to enjoy the really cold times because the clouds would freeze and fall out of the sky. " superchicken

[Gabby]

Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse, in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on." Ben Franklin

[rodeo kid]

"My goal in life is to become as good a person as my dogs think I am"