Favourite quotes - Here's mine, Quite a long list. What's yours?

Opposite of Einstein's quote, "Just because one believes something, doesn't make it true".
 
I rolled a truck once with my two boys inside. By the Grace of GOD we all walked away. The EMT asked me how I was feeling. I said;

I’m not sure but my asshole was chewing chunks out of the seat

I never want to be somebody’s first.

I’ll sleep when I’m dead

JES
 
Some dating advice given many moons ago by a Deacon-
"Date the whore, marry the virgin"
"There is an inverse ratio of position (rank) to intelligence". A grizzled old SGM I knew.
 
He's standing there like a cow looking at a new gate.
- My father in law
I heared this as “like a ram looking at a new gate.”
As a hint on somebody (usually boss): “he is known for his inquisitive look at everything new.”

Necessity leads the smart, but drags the fool
 
vegetarians, hypocrites and fools have the right to condemn hunting from a moral point of view.

I heard this with reference to Bernard Shaw (he was a vegetarian and an opponent of hunting), but I did not find this quote in his quotes. Nevertheless, the statement seems to me to be true.
 
"....because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know." -Donald Rumsfeld

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -Mark Twain
 
“Shining like a diamond in a goats ass”….
- me

“Smiling like a dead pig in the sunshine”
- unc Rog
 
"....because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know." -Donald Rumsfeld

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -Mark Twain
Kamala Harris must be related to Rumsfeld. LOL
 
“One doesn’t often meet a violent man who has learned that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”

“It is a fool who thinks a violent man who has embraced peace has forgotten how to be violent”

“Those who hammer there swords to plow shears will plow for those who don’t”
 
One of my dad's favorites when we would pass by an abandoned and dilapidated ranch house in some overgrazed, hard scrabble ranch land, "That looks like a real cold sweat and belly ache".

I haven't seen the movie but might sometime. I know some details about Oppenheimer's time in NM and don't want those realities to ruin the movie for me if too much is conflicting. Nonetheless, here's the famous and sobering one by Oppenheimer, as he quoted Vishnu, when later interviewed about his role in the development of the first nuclear weapon, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds".
 

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Grz63 wrote on roklok's profile.
Hi Roklok
I read your post on Caprivi. Congratulations.
I plan to hunt there for buff in 2026 oct.
How was the land, very dry ? But à lot of buffs ?
Thank you / merci
Philippe
Fire Dog wrote on AfricaHunting.com's profile.
Chopped up the whole thing as I kept hitting the 240 character limit...
Found out the trigger word in the end... It was muzzle or velocity. dropped them and it posted.:)
Fire Dog wrote on AfricaHunting.com's profile.
2,822fps, ES 8.2
This compares favorably to 7 Rem Mag. with less powder & recoil.
Fire Dog wrote on AfricaHunting.com's profile.
*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS FOR MY RIFLE, ALWAYS APPROACH A NEW LOAD CAUTIOUSLY!!*
Rifle is a Pierce long action, 32" 1:8.5 twist Swan{Au} barrel
{You will want a 1:8.5 to run the heavies but can get away with a 1:9}
Peterson .280AI brass, CCI 200 primers, 56.5gr of 4831SC, 184gr Berger Hybrid.
Fire Dog wrote on AfricaHunting.com's profile.
I know that this thread is more than a year old but as a new member I thought I would pass along my .280AI loading.
I am shooting F Open long range rather than hunting but here is what is working for me and I have managed a 198.14 at 800 meters.
That is for 20 shots. The 14 are X's which is a 5" circle.
 
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