Favorite Quotes and such

[Matt]

Now here is a topic that should be able to hit 5 or 6 pages easy...

I have lots of favorite quotes I have written down over the years many are my own some are not and I even have a few bible versus I like... How about you all? lets here them.

Here are some of mine:

- “Rather than just fear that which is unknown and follow as someone else leads, I choose to face it and even embrace it, so that I might one day call it known.” -mg

- “The less you expect in return the more you will receive” –mg

- “Those who always expect it seldom respect it” –mg

- “Never wish upon someone that which you would not wish upon yourself also” –mg

- “Dare to be Different “–unknown

- “Agree or agree to disagree just don’t argue” – unknown

- “Life is short and we only get one; waste it and what have we done?” –mg

- “Lead by example or else you’re following the wrong path” –mg

- “If it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck, it’s a duck” – unknown

- “Doubt me if you wish just stay open to the possibility” – mg

- “Knowledge is Power, Share it.” –mg

- “To live in fear is to live a life of slavery; as we are but slaves and our fears our masters” –mg

- “Always set obtainable goals but never stop reaching them” –mg

- “If fate should one day on me shine I would rather be your best friend and you mine” –mg

- “Do not tell me that I am ‘wrong’ if you can not prove that you are ‘right’”- mg

- “He that looks upon the world with blinders sees but only that which is in front of him”- unknown

- “Someone who is trying to help their self is worth helping” –mg

- “We all make mistakes some just lack the ability to learn from them” –mg

- “Remember to follow your heart and lead with your head even if you forget everything else you have read” –mg

- “Get to know me while I am here so you can remember me when I am gone” –mg

- “Once maybe even twice it’s a mistake after that it’s a problem” –mg

- “Are we evolving or are we devolving” –bg

- “Who’s right? We’ll all find out in the end but until then it’s all only speculation and opinions” –mg


Bible Versus

Luke 1:37
 For with God nothing shall be impossible.

James 2:17
 So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

Matthew 5:44
 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;


Luke 6:37
 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

2 Corinthians 4:18
 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

I John 4:7
 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.


I Corinthians 3:16
 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

James 2:26
 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Matthew 6:21
 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

I Timothy 1:8
 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

Matthew 5:3-10
  Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
  Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
  Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
  Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
  Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


JOHN 15:13
 Greater love hath no man than this, than a man lay down his life for his friends.

Matt

[WylieKy]

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? -George Carlin

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. -George Carlin

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.-George Carlin

This that I do, I do by my own free will.-Harold Lauder (Stephen King, The Stand)

"Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10)

How think ye? if a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?  And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Matthew 18:12–13

[curtism1234]

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America"
Bill Clinton

[SHOOTALL]

"ever notice you find your keys in the last place you look "

[H666]

When facing execution with an axe after a battle, an icelandic soldier in the 13. century resided this:

Thou shalt kling to keel
cold is the sea
Muster all your courage
This is your life's end
Never cry, bald man
Though rain falls
You were loved by maidens
at some point each shall die.

It is said that when he spoke the last sentence he knelt down and and drooped his head for the axe.

Someone could probably translate this better but the stoic courage of this man has always fascinated me.

This story can be found in the Icelandic Sagas.

[WylieKy]

H666,
You reminded me of my favorite Viking Quote: The Cowards never started; and the Weak died along the way.

*EDIT* Some additional Viking Proverbs:
- One day crows feast at the wolf’s table, the next day on his corpse.
- Who sits nearest the fire breathes most smoke.
- There is no more wretched thing than that which makes a goblin sing.
- To see one wolf is to sense many.
- As the wise learn from error, so the brave rise from defeat.
- Even moonlight fades.
- Not everything in a bear pelt has it’s power.
- Those who leave the dead undisturbed see no spirits.
- What winter snow hides the spring sun will reveal.
- The wind blinds those who struggle against it, as it hides the future from those who follow it.
- To know the future one must remember the past.
- Not all wolves walk on four legs.
- He who fears defeat is lost.
- An impatient man will lose more time wandering in darkness than he who waits for the dawn.
- A strong tower repels warriors, but attracts thieves.
- Great armour does not make great warrior.
- Best to cross thin ice unburdened.
- Who fears death, never truly lives.
- To find out, what is on the bottom of the mug, you must drink all the beer.
- If you want to save your eyes close them. If you want to save your life keep them open.
- Small arms don’t swing big axes.
- Sometimes it is safer to be a beggar in rags than a warrior in armour.
- Babbling fools attract more fools, silent sages gather wisdom.
- The more years in a tree, the more strikes for the axe.
- This the wolf knows, even he is food for crows.

[Cement Man]

"Do not mistake kindness for weakness".  (unknown)

"I've clinched and I've closed with the naked north,
  I've learned to defy and defend.
  Shoulder to shoulder we've fought it out,
  but the wild will win in the end."  (Robert Service)

"Every man is his own responsibility." (My Dad)

[T/Chmr]

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid"  John Wayne

"Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction." unknown cowboy

[DDZ]

It takes a great man to give advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

He who cannot forgive, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Faith is often strengthened right at the place of disappointment.

Character is not made in a crisis-it is only exhibited.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts you have made glad.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  Psalm 73:26

He will wipe every tear from thier eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.  Revelation 21:4

[Brett]

"I tell ya' that boy's as sharp as a bag full of marbles." - Fog Horn Leghorn 

[kinslayer1965]

"I will take a good plan violently executed right now over a perfect plan next week".  General Patton

"We win they lose" Ronald Reagan's reply when asked about his plan for the cold war.

" A wise man speaks because he has something to say, a fool because he feels he has to say something" unknown

" it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" unknown

"compared to what"  kinslayer1965, also known as what not to say when your wife askes does this dress make me look fat. Also the reason I have been single for 11 years.

[LONGTOM]

These are the two that mean the most to me.

I WON'T BE WRONGED
I WON'T BE INSULTED
I WON'T BE LAID A HAND ON
I DON'T DO THESE TRHINGS TO OTHER PEOPLE
AND I REQUIRE THE SAME FROM THEM

John Wayne from the movie THE SHOOTISE


To me, this is the best one I have ever heard.

"A MAN'S WORD IS HIS BOND,
IF HE WON'T HONOR THAT THEN HE IS NOTHING"

My late GRANDFATHER


LONGTOM

[gstewart44]

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy".......Benjamin Franklin

"If brains were lard that boy couldn't grease too big of a skillet".......Jed Clampett referring to Jethro Bodine.

[Drugstore Cowboy]

You can buy nice new clean oats or you can buy that have been put through the horse.
unknown

Patience is bitter but its' fruit is sweet.
Some Greek

[SHOOTALL]

On the radio a while back there was a story of a British Airways pliot who made a wrong turn on the tarmac in Berlin . The German air trafic controler ask him if he had ever been to Berlin before in a very smart aleck tone . In a very calm voice the Britt said only once , but didn't land only dropped his cargo and returned to England .

[slim rem 7]

 all good men have to do is nothing ,,,for the corrupt bad ones to win the day....said by several ..ben franklin was one.. slim

[swiftman]

 If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen". Samuel Adams.

[swiftman]

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
Andrew Jackson

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan


The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan


To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan


One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill


Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill

[swiftman]

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language was different; Liberty sir, was the primary object.
                                                                                               Patrick Henry

Liberals it has been said, are generous with other people money , except when it comes to national survival, when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedoms and security. William F Buckley Jr

I am sure never was a people , who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States, and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.

George Washington


Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.      John Adams



Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams

[skarke]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

This is my signature quote, and the prevailing truth I strive to teach my kids regarding freedom and governmental world view.

[DDZ]

Liberals always create the exact oppisite of thier intent.  Jim Quinn