Quotable Quotes

[Tradewind]

 

[Tradewind]

Trust your gut, but verify with facts.

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

Every great thing you will accomplish in your life will be through struggle

Always carry a flask—it’s not alcoholism, it’s hydration with personality.

Marry a pretty woman after you meet her mother

Learn from the mistakes of people who took your advice.

 

[recon6036]

“Getting old ain’t for Sissies.”

 

[Perlodid]

"Because it's there" - George Mallory, when asked why he would attempt to climb Everest

 

[reallyoldman]

As worthless as tits on a boar hog.....My mother use to say this when something or someone was useless

 

[Forkyfinder]

Fall 7 times, stand up 8 - japanese proverb

Success is stumbling from failure to failure - without loss for enthusiasm - Winston Churchill

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway - John Wayne

 

[B&CTom]

Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience, it will cleanse your soul and make you a better person. Fred Bear

 

[beagle001]

My grandpa had a few he used a lot

Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back

There’s no modesty in his family, he got it all!

 

[mdhunter]

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

 

[brymoore]

“The trail is all downhill except for the uphill portions” Brymoore to his sons on an elk pack out.

 

[longbow51]

Polish comes from the cities, wisdom from the desert.

Frank Herbert, Dune

 

[recon6036]

“The guy was harder than Chinese Algebra!”

“Your partner’s as useless as a bucket of C - - (Semen).”

Couple lines I’ve heard, from random people, over 31 years in Police work.

 

[JohnCushman]

In the immortal words of Gunny Kelley in field med school...."#uck the #ucking #uckers"

 

[Straight Arrow]

In the immortal words of Gunny Kelley in field med school...."#uck the #ucking #uckers"

Don't know where Kelley picked it up, but that emphatic expression echoed throughout South Vietnam for years back in the day.

 

[JohnCushman]

Don't know where Kelley picked it up, but that emphatic expression echoed throughout South Vietnam for years back in the day.

He was a Recon Marine in Viet Nam

 

[Straight Arrow]

He was a Recon Marine in Viet Nam

Sure enough! God Bless that Gunney Recon Marine. He is a real life authentic Veteran American hero! (with combat zone boots-on-the-ground to prove it.)

 

[Gerald Martin]

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Why is it only the pig pretends he doesn’t like the mud?

Kind of like a saying my cousin used to say. “Quit it some more.”