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13 years 7 months ago - 13 years 7 months ago #16695 by Sharkey
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I'm sure whoever has checked out my profile has seen little "quotes" or sayings I've either picked up or come up with myself since I've been around.


What are some of your "favorite" quotes that tend to ring in your mind or just mean something to you?

I don't necessarily mean FAMOUS, just favorite.

I'd be very interested in seeing what many of you guys find interesting and that sort of "hangs with you" as you travel through life...
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13 years 7 months ago #16696 by Akai
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The ancient Chinese warrior Sun Tzu taught his men to "know your enemy" before going into battle. For if "you know your enemy and know yourself," he wrote, "you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." But, Sun Tzu warned, "If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat." :soapbox:

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13 years 7 months ago #16697 by Siscowet
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I always liked "38% of all statistics are worthless". :whistle:

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13 years 7 months ago #16700 by Akai
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Isn't that 78% :cowboy:

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13 years 7 months ago #16701 by Siscowet
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Half the time it is. :S

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13 years 7 months ago #16703 by zztoplc
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Fish and guests tend to smell after three days. Ben Franklin.

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13 years 7 months ago #16704 by Sharkey
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zztoplc wrote: Fish and guests tend to smell after three days. Ben Franklin.


I like it... :)

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13 years 7 months ago #16705 by OleCowboy
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Good don't come cheap and cheap don't come good

Whoever is in second place is the first loser

See your friends see you

Your actions speak so loudly I cannot hear your words: RW Emerson


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny.
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and in resting died." (John Dretschmer)

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way.
So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

Do not argue with an idiot.
He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather.
Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the
street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child?

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around: Will Rogers

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. Will Rogers

"Maybe there are 5 000, maybe 10 000 Nazi bastards in their concrete foxholes before the Third Army. Now if Ike stops holding Monty's hand and gives me the supplies, I'll go through the Sigfried Line like shit through a goose." Patton

December 9, 2005 (CNN) While interviewing an anonymous US Special Forces soldier, a Reuters News agent asked the soldier what he felt when sniping members of Al Quaeda in Afghanistan. The soldier shrugged and replied, "Recoil."

If you have to qualify as sane to declare war, then Hitler was just having a diplomacy issue!

Where were you when the Sheet of Paper was BLANK?

"Attack the issue NOT the individual"

“Fix the problem, DON’T affix the blame”

"Prosecute the position, NOT the person"

Challenge the issue not the individual

The French:
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French
one behind me."
--General George S. Patton

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
--Norman Schwarzkopf

"You can observe a lot just by watching." Yogi Berra

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." Yogi Berra

"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting." Yogi Berra

Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." Yogi Berra

It ain't the heat; it's the humility." Yogi Berra

"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." Yogi Berra

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13 years 7 months ago #16706 by Sharkey
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The MOST famous "one word quote" in American history - (as far as I know anyway)


Every single vet ON here better know it and most of you guys that DIDN'T serve probably do too if you watched movies or know WWII history.

What is it?

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13 years 7 months ago #16707 by et1911rph
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Nuts

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