More from the mil email chain…
Liberals claim not to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. [William F. Buckley]
A Saxon can die without a murmer. A French man can die laughing. But only a Norseman can laugh as he kills. [George S. Patton Jr]
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [John F. Kennedy]
George Orwell’s 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not and instruction manual. [Unknown]
If you spend time to teach kids right and wrong when they’re little, it’s much easier for them to grow up. And it shows you love ’em. [Roy Rogers]
The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. [T.S. Elliot]
You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not that tired. [Robert Brault]
In war, opportunity waits for no man. [Pericles, c 495-429 BC]
Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. [Ogden Nash]
You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the `assault weapons’ of the First Amendment. They’re ugly, a lot of people don’t like them, but they’re protected by the First Amendment – just as ‘assault weapons’ are protected by the Second Amendment. [Charlton Heston]
The only problem with capitalism is that it works so well that people think they don’t need it.” – Dan Held
An infected mind is a far more dangerous pestilence than any plague – one only threatens your life, the other destroys your character. [Marcus Aurelius]
When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labeled senile. [GB]
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental. [John Steinbeck]
If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience or social acceptability, they are not your principles. They are your costume. [Nitya Prakash]
The reliability of any system is inversely proportional to the square of its complexity. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]
You’ll have to pass it to find out what’s in it. [Nancy Pelosi]
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. [Voltaire]
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. [D.H. Lawrence]
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. [General Norman Schwarzkopf]
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun-control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims. [Thomas Sowell]
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. [Nelson Mandela. Fighter, Prisoner, President, Revolutionary]
Y’all enjoy!!!
Quotable quotes to live a well-lived life by!
“Individually, we do not bear arms because we are afraid. We bear arms as a declaration of capacity. An armed man can cope – either in the city or in the wilderness – and because he is armed, he is not afraid.
The hoplophobe fears and, yes, hates us, because we are not afraid. We are overwhelmingly “other” than he, and in a way that emphasizes his afflictions.”
Jeff Cooper
Fine list. One error is that Nelson Mandela was first a Terrorist. His reigh of terror over a formally prosperous nation caused the deaths of many innocents. He and his wife are responsible for South Africa being the shithole that it is today
“You’ll have to pass it to find out what’s in it.”
“That’s the definition of a stool sample.”
Funny how true that is with legislation they use that phrase to justify, too.
Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.
Gen. Patton
One thing about old age; it doesn’t last forever.
A man should live forever of die trying!
-S. Robinson attributing to L. Niven.
All- Thanks for the comments, Gregg- You are correct, thanks.
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This may sound silly. When I was 5 my Dad abandonded my mother with us 5 kids and male role models where in short supply. There were re-runs of The Roy Rogers show on TV and I saw this guy who had some sort of code that he lived by. He didn’t have it written down and didn’t have go look up what to do in any situation, it was just in him.
These are good!
I’m trying to decide if having the same Douglas Adams quote about fools and foolproofing twice is on purpose. LoL