Quotable sayings....................

[Jim's Mom]

Have you ever noticed when you have a 50/50 chance of making a right or wrong choice about 80 percent of the time you make the wrong choice. Although with some people it is closer to 95 percent.

[Pack]

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
       


You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.  
        -Stan Laurel

[vwvectors]

I like my moniker below .

[mcgyver]

I'm not sure who said it but I love it!

"Good Judgment comes from Wisdom,
Wisdom comes from bad Judgments."

Funny, but I've lived this too much.

[huntindad]

"If that water was any colder my p#!?er would be a bump in my back." MY Dad

[ArcticArcher]

My friends dad used to say to the two of us.

"If brains was dynamite, there wouldn't be enough between the two of you to blow my nose"

Usually after we did something stupid.

[bowboy]

if we aren't supposed to eat animals then why are they made of meat?

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Questions I've asked some of the cooks I trained.
Have you ever stopped to think and then forgot to start?
Are you drunk or just stupid?
It would appear your first mistake was thinking you knew how to do that.

[Michael Arnette]

" Never until now have I seen in my own country freedom portrayed as chaos and dreams and hard work represented as greed."
A WWII veteran I know who fought on the beaches of Normandy.

"The single most important gaol of compulsary education is to shape the minds of those who are in it's fold by removing them from the social institutions that hold them." ie the family.
-Thomas Huxley- father of compulsary education in america

"Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state." -Adolph Hitler

[Michael Arnette]

"No single raindrop believes itself responsible for the storm."-unknown

"Man stand with mouth open for long time before roast duck fly in."-chinese proverb

A fool is wise until he opens his mouth to speak.
-Proverbs

[el_kirk]

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."  Edward Abbey

And to go along with the abusive ones from c2 --

"Did your mother have any children that lived?"
Not very kind.

[vwvectors]

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churhill

[vwvectors]

I reaaly admire Thomas Jefferson here are a few.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom .

Health is worth more than learning .

[ishiwannabe]

My dad had a few, and some have already been posted...

Once, when I was working on my bike at the ripe old age of ten, I skinned my knuckles when the wrench slipped. I told him I was pi$$ed...a bad word for a young man. He didnt yell, or scold me. Simply stated "You know it is better to be pi$$ed off-than on". To a ten year old, it was a big deal. He let me know it wasnt acceptable, but didnt do it in a negative way, all with the expression on his face.

[GMMAT]

"Having an opinion, in and of itself, is nothing virtuous....if that opinion is plain wrong." - Rush Limbaugh

[mooseman1967]

Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!

[snag]

Here's a couple a friend sent me that I liked...
"Jesus is coming, don't miss Him for the world"
"Warning, exposure to the Son may prevent burning"

[nashwaaker]

met an old-timer once who gave me some sage advice. He asked me abnout something....and I explained what I was "thinking" of doing....he smiled and said...."young fellow you'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind"...
never forgot that one...action is the key!
Also had the same guy tell me about the character trait of false pride...."you can't save your face and your ass at the same time"

[larryh]

my wife on our 55th wedding anniversary when asked if in all those years she had never thought about divorce...."divorce?, no i don't think so. homicide? hundreds of times!!"

[saumensch]

"eyery year youre parents go to the zoo and throw stones at a stork"