These make a lot of sense, even if some of them are ‘old’, to put it mildly…

History never embraces more than a small part of reality. [French author La Rochefoucauld]

Folks keep talking about another Civil War. One side knows how to shoot and probably has a trillion rounds. The other side has crying closets and is confused about which bathroom to use. How do you think that would end? [unknown]

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. [Will Rogers]

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. [Steven Wright]

If you are unwilling to defend your own lives, then you are like mice trying to negotiate with owls. You regard their ways as wrong; they regard you as dinner. [John Farnam]

Dangerous things one can hear in the military: A private saying I learned this in Basic. [Unknown]

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. [John Steinbeck]

A non-posthumous Purple Heart merely proves you were (1) smart enough to think of a plan, (2) crazy enough to try it, and (3) lucky enough to survive. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. [Edward Langley]

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. [Will Rogers]

Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing ‘compassion’ for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about. [Thomas Sowell]

How well I remember the smell of the tarmac, a mixture of cold air and decomposing dinosaur that hits your nose as soon as you get away from the lights of the hangar. [Brigid]

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. [John F. Kennedy]

We don’t grow older, we grow riper. [Pablo Picasso]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. [Robert A Heinlein]

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. [Aesop]

Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once. [Naval Ops Manual]

The German armies will drain away their hearts blood into the icy plains of Russia, and after two years we shall never see them again. [German Admiral Canaris, before Operation Barbarossa]

College Campus: An academic retreat where sanctimonious apostles of political correctness outnumber men of principles and honor. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]

Dangerous things one can hear in the military: A lieutenant saying, In my experience… [Unknown]

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study. [Xun Kuang]

You don’t get to pick the day that you need your gun. Someone else picks it, and they will only tell you at the last moment. [Tom Givens]

There is nothing like the sight of an enemy down on his luck. [Euripides, c 480-406 BC]

… offered me a choice of two entrees – neither of which I understood … she returned with stewed tomatoes. The first choice had been boiled fish. Prestwick taught me to confine my breakfast thereafter to the U.S. Army mess. [Omar Bradley, September 1943]

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. [David Leinweber]

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]