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"The foundation for old age is good memories".
That is my quote.

"Before all else, be armed." Niccolo Machiavelli

That's my most favorite.......

He’s just like a rock in your shoe.

It takes less time to do it right the first time.

"some people just need to be killed", "anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice", " beat him like a rented mule", " that boy has the IQ of a tree frog"," you can never have too much fuel on board an airplane, unless you are on fire" and "hold my beer, we're going to try something"

To stay with Mencken

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

One my kids learned to hate, "If it was easy anyone could do it"

My dad has this over his desk...." have patience or become one".

Can't make chicken salad out of chicken schit.


It is what it is.


Schit fire and save matches.

Treat every day in love as if it were your first day in love.

"Not all change is progress." - Dad

"If you can't have what you want, you'd best learn to want what you have." - Grandma

"Be kind; every person you encounter is fighting battles you have no knowledge of."

"If autumn were a girl, I would propose to her. If autumn were a wine, I'd settle for no other. If autumn were a place, I would hope to live there always." -Charles Gusewelle

"Life is like a roll of toilet paper - the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes!"

"You cannot reason someone out of something they were never reasoned into."

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.” ~ Scott Peck

"It is true that great thinkers and innovators and bringers of light tend to piss people off. That doesn't mean that just because you piss people off, you are a great thinker, innovator and bringer of light. You may just be a huge [bleep]".

I don’t know who said it but I agree
‘They ain’t a lot of problems that can’t be fixed with $700 and a 30-06

Often mistaken, but never in doubt.

New does not necessarily mean better.

Let the other fool die for his country. It's your job to kill him, with any tool that comes to hand.

"The hungry wolf hunts the hardest!" OIDabble

"I don't make the rules, I never pretended that I did but I do enforce them!" : OIDabble

Also like many from Milton Friedman or FA Hayek or Adam Smith.

Mack

I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon..........D.A.D.

Some [bleep] fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks.
I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the enemy to worry about, not me. Before he finds out where my flanks are, I'll be cutting the bastard's throat.......General George S.Patton

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country........General George S.Patton

Molon Labe...........King Leonidas

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!............Benjamin Franklin

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me..................Jesus Christ.

There are many others.

This one should be in a window that pops up every time someone starts to post a reply.

A mans got to know his limitations.

Don't know who first said it but it was in the movies.

I have reached the age where I can say nothing and it is considered to be wisdom--- unknown--

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Samuel Clemens