Favorite Quotes

[fill35U 1,846]

"WE ARE ALL NUTS... If we weren't we'd be collecting something cheap like bottle caps."

 

- Zumbini, in THIS POST 

[Daddyjt 9,246]

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be..."

 

~Lao Tzu 

[Charlie 16,430]

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.     

 

 

--Sun Tzu

 

 

 

[Dav-Em 335]

  “When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

 

~ Spock

[itchitch 4,339]

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.” Lou Holtz

 

[Charlie 16,430]

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word....

 

 

--Al Capone 

[4krow 6,105]

  "Let none of your success or failure ever be due to a lack of effort." It was the luckiest choice of words that ever left my lips when dropping my sons off at the Navy recruiting office 16 years ago.

[maytag 849]

The "News" was much better when Huey was the lead….

 

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[zumbini 6,146]

 

 

  “When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

 

~ Spock

 

Spock's quote from Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country: 

“An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution.” 

 

The actual line spoken by Sherlock Holmes to Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 novel The Sign Of Four: 

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”

[B-Man 4,769]

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it." - Pericles

[Daddyjt 9,246]

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

 

~Franklin 

[PDR 1,192]

........Good thing we didn't step in it.....

 

Cheech and Chong~ 

[Charlie 16,430]

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual....

 

 

--David Knight 

[Dav-Em 335]

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”

 

~ Ghandi

[aslan7 954]

CarverSite friendships :

 

 

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

― C.S. Lewis

 

 

[Charlie 16,430]

A great teacher doesn't teach; they merely invite you to stand beside them and see for yourself...

 

 

--Unknown 

[Charlie 16,430]

If you choose not to decide, you've still have made a choice..

 

 

--Rush 

[maytag 849]

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

 

George S. Patton 

[Daddyjt 9,246]

"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor"

 

~FDR

 

One of the wisest quotes I have ever heard, and one I reflect on often.... 

[maytag 849]

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. 

John Wayne

[Daddyjt 9,246]

"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

 

~de Saint-Exupery

[zumbini 6,146]

"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic." Robert A. Heinlein

[maytag 849]

"Don't think about your errors or failures, otherwise you'll never do a thing"

 

-Bill Murray 

 

 

[Daddyjt 9,246]

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” 

 

~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[Charlie 16,430]

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.

 

 

-- Confucius