Quotable Quotes

[westbranch]

Was at some meetings the last couple days and there was an Idaho old timer there. He was telling stories about growing up in Sun Valley while his mom worked at housekeeper for rich folks. He remembers wandering around the streets and sitting on some eccentric guys lawn while he told stories about hunting in Africa. It was 50 years before he realized it was Ernest Hemingway.

Talking on current issues related to conservation and politics:

"All is solved with time and mortality"

 

[Mallardsx2]

Don’t sweat the petty stuff and don’t pet the sweaty stuff.

 

[Hem]

" not from you whiskey breath"

 

[Stocker]

My grandpa used to tell me “you could F*** up a crowbar in a sandbox”

My mom used to say about worthless or dumb people “he couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were in the heel”

I always liked Patton’s quote “if everyone is thinking alike then someone isn’t thinking”

 

[Sawtooth]

"A word to the wise ain't necessary it's the stupid ones that need the advice"

" Any meal made for you is a good meal, any meal that is made for you and is edible as a damn good meal. And this my friends is a damn good meal."
What my best friend's Dad would say at hunting camp, every time his son or I would make a meal for him. Often the tenderloin from the buck or bull we shot earlier in the day.

 

[cowboy]

When your rear was dragging on the harvest crew with no sleep the boss would just scowl and say “If you’re gonna run with the pack, quit pizzing like a puppy”

 

[Letthemgrow]

Allow yourself to love them for who they are and forgive them for who they are not.

 

[LopeHunter]

Three ways to get rich. Earn it. Inherit it. Marry it. The hardest way is marrying it because that family will never respect you as anyone of value.

 

[EYJONAS!]

 

[tarheel]

"There is a time for us to wander
When time is young and so are we.
The woods are greener over yonder
The path is new, the world is free."

- Maggie Peterson Mancuso

 

[Knight.54]

I saw a good one on a t shirt the other day,

“honor a veteran by living a life worth defending.”


Happy Easter everyone!

 

[Tradewind]

He was a Recon Marine in Viet Nam

Brings to mind my favorite marine

 

[Wildabeest]

Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.​

- Sun Tzu

 

[texwest44]

Lots of good quotes out there. Many of them are difficult to originally attribute to any one person definitively, but here are a few good ones to keep in mind in these times:

"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"It's better to be thought a fool and remain silent than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

"It's easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they've been fooled."

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

"A riot is the language of the unheard." - MLK Jr

"Judge not, lest ye be judged." - Matthew 7:1

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - LBJ

"An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." MLK Jr

"A flatterer is not a good companion for any man; and the public man who rises only by flattering his constituents is just as unsafe a companion for them." - Teddy Roosevelt

"Only when the last tree has been cut, that fish caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize that we cannot eat money." - Cree proverb

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit." - Greek proverb

"Thank your lucky stars you've got protection/Walk the line and never mind the cost/Don't wonder who them lawmen were protecting/When they nailed the savior to the cross" - Kris Kristofferson

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Phaseolus]

Winston Churchill Quote

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

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[Phaseolus]

Winston Churchill Quote

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

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