"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his desserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch,
To win or lose it all!"
James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose
1612 to 1650
Royalist General during the English Civil War
" A womans breast is the hardest rock the Almighty ever put on this Earth and I can find no sign upon it"
See my sig line. It's a constant reminder to me.
I know mine did.
“I don't hate people...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski
It’ll be alright in the end, if it ain’t alright, it ain’t the end.
"Factio democratica delenda est"
Me
“I’d like the meet the mfer that named it Fashion Bug and shove a broom up his ass”
Danny, Tourettes Guy
The streets will flow with the blood of the nonbelievers.
Beavis & Butthead 1993
No sense in being stupid unless you show it.
"Trapper Tim"
Other than my sig line….
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
-Will Rogers
"The only thing worse than a guitar, is a guitarist!"
Nels Cline
"I might not be that great at playing the guitar, but when it comes to singing, at least I'm mediocre!"
Neil Young
If some is good and more is better, too much must be just enough.
Two wrongs don't make a right.........but three do.
What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.
Kipling
People don’t like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
If anything happens to that boy,
your fault, my fault, or nobody's fault,
I'm going to kill you.
People don’t like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
Most people reach their conclusions, where they stop thinking.
Myself, He who hath not erred, hath not endevered.
Cleaned up from. The only guy who never made a mistake, never tried.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson
It is always in season for old men to learn. - Aeschylus
If you ain't using your head, might as well have two a$$es...Joe
and my sig line, perhaps better.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
I've needed a doctor
I've needed a teacher
I need farmers every day
I have needed a plumber, an auto mechanic, a house painter and a lot of other everyday people but I have NEVER, not even once, NEEDED a pro athlete, a media personality or a Hollywood entertainer for ANYTHING!
My favorite is “ Fuuck it”
If a little does a little good
a lot should do a lot of good.
Little deer little antlers
Big deer big antlers
That's the way it should be.
Never kick a fresh pile of Cow Schitt,
Rio7
"I bet her spit bounces!"
S. L. Abshier
“Handsome is as handsome does” - Claggert, Billy Bud Sailor, Herman Melville
“Just as the dog returneth to its vomit, so the fool to his folly” - Cicero
Fools find the words of the wise foolish.
Good will become evil and evil good.
The heart of the wise lies to the right, while that of a fool to the left.
“Handsome is as handsome does” - Claggert, Billy Bud Sailor, Herman Melville
“Just as the dog returneth to its vomit, so the fool to his folly” - Cicero
Cicero was quoting Proverbs
I have 3 kids and no money. Why can't I have no kids and 3 money? Homer Simpson
"A tree is know by it's fruit'
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" is an aphorism which appears in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible — Proverbs 26:11 (
Tho I travel thru the valley of death I shall fear no evil cause I’m the biggest baddest meanest mother f——- in the valley
I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please." - John Wayne
“In order to begin comprehending one’s enemy, observe his art closely” - Mr_Harry
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”
Thomas Paine
Pogo, we have met the enemy, and he is us.
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy the yacht to pull right up next to it."
Hal Ketchum
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" is an aphorism which appears in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible — Proverbs 26:11 (
I kinda like when God tells Job to “Gird up your loins”. Talk about insult on top injury…
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”
Thomas Paine
And they will call Biteme their president when they know he and the cabal and CCP stole the election and he took the office illegally after a successful though illegal coup overthrew the US govt because the fake news msm, subversive legislature and DNC told them to.
UFR.
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" is an aphorism which appears in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible — Proverbs 26:11 (
I kinda like when God tells Job to “Gird up your loins”. Talk about insult on top injury…
You are one of few Fire members who will like that one. Most are like drop your drawers and bend over MF. We know how to deal with you.
“He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against” - Nicollo Machiavelli
“My mind is my own church” - Thomas Paine
Night Birde (Jane Marczewski) --- "You don't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy"
Cancer fighter -- America's Got Talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH6G_fWfBPs
Never argue with an idiot. They’ll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Pull it outta your own ass-hole.
- Beave
😂🦫
Don’t cry over things that can’t cry over you.
Carlo Ponti
“It’s fun to hate” - Mr_Harry
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
― Milton Friedman
Love is blind...but lust doesn't give a happy gotdam.
One of Murphy's laws.....not sure which one.
"My butt's been wiped."
Joe Biden
"Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself." -P.T. Barnum
Some days I wish I could go back in life...
Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
"We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded." Dick Winters
"I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life." Augustus McCrae
"Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid."
Spider Robinson
Torque is tight,too tight is broke.
Torque is tight,too tight is broke.
My dad always said that this way:
Tight is tight. Once more than tight, is broke.
😁
I don’t know who said it, but I truly believe that it’s words to live by.
7mm
It is impossible to enslave a man who is willing to die for freedom.
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly"
Yep, reminds me of the "Connecting the dots" thread.
Here, I've prepared your response, just go ahead and cut and paste it in:
"You're just a commie Biden voter and a dumbschit without a clue."
Henry Ford: Whether you think you can, or think you can't , you're right.
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. - Harold Kushner
And my tag line of course.
" A womans breast is the hardest rock the Almighty ever put on this Earth and I can find no sign upon it"
from Jeremiah Johnson...great quote
We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. C. Hitchens
'The eye of the master fattens the herd."
Stress is nothing more than what we used to call challenge. Now get back to work.
A client years ago, Earl Bliss, to an empoyee complaining about working on a weekend. I've used it repeatedly. Surviving something "stressful" is merely surviving, but if you can see it as a challenge, you can get through it feeling like you've conquered something.
While the early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese...
Confuses, 'Who say these things they say I say?"
So as Digger O’ Dell would say, "Its the early worm that gets the bird! Now, I’ll be shoveling off!"
(For an extra 10 points, name that radio show!!!🤣)
Plan your work, and work your plan.
Monte Walsh...you can't possibly know how little I care.
This was on the back of my retirement program brochure. And on the front. one from Admiral Lord Nelson: "I shall be a hero and confiding in Providence, I shall brave every danger...."
"When you have to shoot, shoot don't talk" - Tuco
Whenever folks ask me how I am doing, my normal answer is “Far better than I deserve.” I figure God letting his Son hang on the cross for my sins is far better than I deserve.
When things don’t always go my way, I usually end up saying “If that’s the worst thing that happens to me today, it’s a pretty good day.” Simply because in most instances, it’s true.
John
Fouteur de merde
A Toast:
To Incompatibility,
May you always have a good income,
And remain really pat-able.
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly"
Yep, reminds me of the "Connecting the dots" thread.
Here, I've prepared your response, just go ahead and cut and paste it in:
"You're just a commie Biden voter and a dumbschit without a clue."
Your spelling is too good.
'The eye of the master fattens the herd."
Feed to the horse; not the chart on the wall.
-Minot Howard
Fairbanks
"To our wives, and lovers, may they never meet'.
" A womans breast is the hardest rock the Almighty ever put on this Earth and I can find no sign upon it"
from Jeremiah Johnson...great quote
Never explain a pop culture reference.
-FatCity67
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It's its natural manure.. "
Thomas Jefferson..
Nothing in nature dies a natural death.
Workplace moral is simple. Just fire the unhappy people.
"That'll be the day" is a favorite of mine, stolen from John Wayne..
Also, "Toldjaso".
MM
Workplace moral is simple. Just fire the unhappy people.
The beatings will continue until attitudes improve !
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" .
.Edmond Burke
"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence". ......
.....Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
.........Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man-brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
~Mark Twain
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall
Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
No one cares, work harder.
Ssgt Stein
mike r
It's been a long time since a politician was drug through the streets, tarred and feathered.
Let your gun accompany you on your walks, the heft will do you well and it will ward off evil doers
Thomas Jefferson
"GUN CONTROL IS TWO IN THE HEAD AT FIFTY" Mn Governor Jessie Ventura
Nothing in nature dies a natural death.
Reminds me of Steven Wright- He got stabbed 5 times, naturally he died
"The world is made for those who aren't cursed with self awareness"
The suspense is killing me. I hope it lasts. W Wonka
It’ll be alright in the end, if it ain’t alright, it ain’t the end.
Another nice post sir. This one might be my new favorite.
"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand." - Linus van Pelt
"No problem is so big or so complicated that it won't go away if ignored long enough." - From the Charles Brown School of Management
My signature links have a handful of my favorite quotes.
Pogo, we have met the enemy, and he is us.
Pogo was John Wayne Gacy’s clown persona
At Cat diesel school someone had posted a sign, yellowed with age and soot,,,, 'there are few mechanical problems so difficult that they cannot be solved with a large hammer'.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 27:6
The only government I trust is my 45-70 Gov't.
There are few things in life that can't be fixed with an adequate amount of high explosives.
Pogo, we have met the enemy, and he is us.
Pogo was John Wayne Gacy’s clown persona
Loved him in The Cowboys
"I am free no matter what rules surround me, if I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Robert Heinlein
"Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after; so that when men come to be undeceived it is too late: the jest is over and the tale has had its effect." Johnathan Swift
"forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting"
Creasy
One of my favorites when I worked at Ford . . .
“Those that can wind up doing, those that can’t wind up teaching”.
How’s our education system doing today?
Good ole big uns and big ole good uns.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
Lady Astor: ‘If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.’
Churchill: ‘Nancy, if I were your husband I would drink it.’
"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
drover
Missed by a inch ? Might as well missed by a mile ! By dad .
Teaching young men to sag wire while jacking a hoist , “pull hard , it’ll come easy” , or on the ground pulling a couple thousand feet of rope by hand . That statement would get you some looks and comments .
Crazy lineman I used to work with “ if we had some eggs we’d have some ham and eggs if we had some ham”
Dumber than a soup sandwich
Kenneth
Ain’t many problems can’t be solved with $700 and a 3006.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side kid, Han Solo
Didn’t read all of it.
Did anyone post “I’m your huckleberry?”
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
That's going to itch when it dries, Jim Hart
Hate that one. Kinda one sided.
How about: Happy spouse, happy house.
'Pretty is, is pretty does."
Black and White creates a strange dreamscape that Color never can.
If you don’t teach your children to follow God the world will teach them not to
If it looks good, you'll see it
If it sounds good, you'll hear it
If it'd marketed right, you'll buy it
But...
If it's real, you'll feel it
Kid Rock
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want......my Dad used to say that when I was a teenager. Not sure if he came up with it or heard it somewhere
If you are not making mistakes....you are not doing anything.
tanstaafl,there ain"t no such thing as a free lunch. Lazarus Long.
Hate that one. Kinda one sided.
How about: Happy spouse, happy house.
" Always remember that wherever you go........ You'll always be there"... Forgot who said that. W.C. Fields, maybe?
" Always remember that wherever you go........ You'll always be there"... Forgot who said that. W.C. Fields, maybe?
Sounds like something Yogi Berra would say. Kinda like: "You can observe a lot just by watching".
No matter where you go, there you are.
Attributed to Confucius but who knows.
Growing old is a privilege that many are denied.
“If it wasn't my job I would have done that for free. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection. I'm glad I was in a position to be able to help. We'll do it as many times as it takes."
-Capitol Police Officer Daniel Hodges, Jan 6 2021
LOVE that quote. Damn straight, Officer Hodges!
#BackTheBlue
“If it wasn't my job I would have done that for free. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection. I'm glad I was in a position to be able to help. We'll do it as many times as it takes."
-Capitol Police Officer Daniel Hodges, Jan 6 2021
Officer Hodges and the rest of you f.aggots won't know whether to shi.t or go blind if you ever see an actual insurrection. Good luck.
“If it wasn't my job I would have done that for free. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection. I'm glad I was in a position to be able to help. We'll do it as many times as it takes."
-Capitol Police Officer Daniel Hodges, Jan 6 2021
Officer Hodges and the rest of you f.aggots won't know whether to shi.t or go blind if you ever see an actual insurrection. Good luck.
Heck of a way to talk about a heroic LEO who was simply defending a defined Constitutional process against a deranged mob, basically defending the very notion of “law and order” itself.
But, you gotta do you.
“Reality, Patriotism, Trump: you can only pick two“
-JeffO, 2022
I really like this one because it’s just so dang TRUE, and cuts right through the BS like a hot knife of rationality through rancid warm butter of propaganda and lies.
GENIUS!
“Reality, Patriotism, Trump: you can only pick two“
-JeffO, 2022
I really like this one because it’s just so dang TRUE, and cuts right through the BS like a hot knife of rationality through rancid warm butter of propaganda and lies.
GENIUS!
JeffZero; still stuck on stoopit.
-ironbender
Yet it’s true, and you know it. And DAMN good. Top it! You cannot.
Those who do do, those who don’t do teach, those who don’t teach administrate.
No idea who said it first.
I’m not POSITIVE you are smart enough to understand it, though. Is the thing.
But I can only dumb down a genius quote so far. Bro.
I’m not POSITIVE you are smart enough to understand it, though. Is the thing.
But I can only dumb down a genius quote so far. Bro.
If you think we are better off now then we were before January 6, 2020 you must be a special kind of stupid. I hope you don’t breed.
MikeS
Always cut the cards no matter how stupid the dealer looks.
"Jeff_O is the biggest piece of schit at the Campfire"
- Me 1/22/2022
I hope Jeff has a neighbor like me that puts him at the top of the list when shtf.
“Reality, Patriotism, Trump: you can only pick two“
-JeffO, 2022
I really like this one because it’s just so dang TRUE, and cuts right through the BS like a hot knife of rationality through rancid warm butter of propaganda and lies.
GENIUS!
A wise person’s heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish person’s heart directs him toward the left.
Ecclesiastes 10:2
We are not running a restaurant & your mother is not a waitress.
You eat what is on the table, or go to bed. No other choices.
Signed, my dad.
JeffZero continues to show her true FAS self.
"People who enforce unethical rules and laws are as responsible as the people that create them"
Yet it’s true, and you know it. And DAMN good. Top it! You cannot.
Take a seat, don't want the PTSDs to cause the knees to wobble.
"Chaos is a ladder"
There ain't but two kinds of "can't " , if can't do it then you can't work here.
Fuuuck em if they can’t take a joke!!!
Can someone post a link about how to open a box of bullets?
Asking for a friend.
Can someone post a link about how to open a box of bullets?
Asking for a friend.
Sure, here it is: "Open a box of bullets for a man, feed him for a day. But show a man how to open a box of bullets and he'll fall off a ladder."
Oops, thought you were asking for a quote.
LOL, that meme reminds me of another quote: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
That dog don't hunt and no one wants a dog that don't hunt! You never really know where your going in life, but you will always know where you have been!
Can someone post a link about how to open a box of bullets?
Asking for a friend.
Sure, here it is: "Open a box of bullets for a man, feed him for a day. But show a man how to open a box of bullets and he'll fall off a ladder."
Oops, thought you were asking for a quote.
Sheesh.
Hold into the PTSD.
"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."
Winston Churchill
So as Digger O’ Dell would say, "Its the early worm that gets the bird! Now, I’ll be shoveling off!"
(For an extra 10 points, name that radio show!!!🤣)
Life of Riley..?
Don't tell me what to do, you are not my cat!
Fück, fight or hold the light.
The highways of the world are filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.
"All roads lead to Rome."
Don't all road lead everywhere?
The highways of the world are filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.
Outstanding! Winner!
You should not worry about things which you have no control over...
The only thing a lock does is keep an honest man honest.
If you understand what I just said then clearly I misspoke. - Alan Greenspan
Go ahead, make my day. Inspector Callahan.
The truth is like a Lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.
On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. - Adlai Stevenson
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me, than a full frontal lobotomy. - Mad Dog Fogarty
Rooster Cogburn.
"No man likes to be called, low down, and high smelling".