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

[Huntsmans Bane]

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

My mate Glen's assessment of leaders and managers he works with often leads to the comment

'That bloke couldn't run a bath'

@Tintin
Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
Couldn't organise a root in a brothek with a fist full of fifties.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

From The Forest Passage by Ernst Junger...

“Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded in the family father, who, sons at his side, fills the doorway with an axe in hand.”


“The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.”
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila


Plenty more.

@Corey0372
Don't need my son's to stand beside me. I'm big enough to fill the doorway in my own.
As my dad used to say in Korea.
Yeah I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death and I will fear no evil
Because I'm the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

"We are expected to do anything instantly. The impossible takes a few minutes." US Navy Seabees.

"We've done so much for so long with so little we're expected to do anything with nothing." US Navy Seabees.

@Newboomer
In the Australian army it's.
We the unwilling
Led by the unqualified
Have been doing so much for so long with so little we now attempt the impossible with nothing.
Bob

 

[Ericedwinbates]

"Drown your Sorrows in Dust and Blood and the smell of gunpower in your nose..."

 

[Ericedwinbates]

A reply about raising babies and young children..." Some days went on forever, but the years went by in an instant."

 

[Monsai52]

From my grandfather, who was one of the most honest people I've ever known.

"I'm too lazy to lie, it's too hared to keep all the stories straight."

Best regards,

 

[Phil Giordano]

Aequitare
Arcum tendere
Veritatem dicere
- Tacito -

I should maybe translate in English, but I believe this quote is by far, more powerful in Latin

 

[Rob404]

Where theres confusion theres profit

Not sure who said it

 

[Phil Giordano]

This is from an old American Handgunner (july/august 1992) I was reading before sleep - it seems very appropriate!

 

[Don458]

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink, because when they wake up in the morning that’s the best they are going to feel all day. ———- A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married, but by then its too late, Frank Sinatra

 

[randallhebert]

You have to start drinking early in the morning if you plan on drinking all day

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Expect no sympathy for a hang over , give none.

 

[Newboomer]

Expect no sympathy for a hang over , give none.

When I'm asked about my military career,"I wouldn't take a million dollars for the memories, but I wouldn't give a penny to do it again."

 

[Velo Dog]

In my early teens, I asked my father:

“Why does it seem like a lot of people in our church are mentally ill” ?

His reply:

“Son, that is because church is not a museum full of saints” ………

“It is a hospital full of sinners”.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

In my early teens, I asked my father:

“Why does it seem like a lot of people in our church are mentally ill” ?

His reply:

“Son, that is because church is not a museum full of saints” ………

“It is a hospital full of sinners”.

That could be the most profound post so far on this thread

 

[Ridge Runner]

No matter how careless a man is, He can never sit down on his testicles.

Well may not be able to sit on them. But can sure put them in an very uncomfortable position when seating into a pool side lounge chair not realizing a webbing is rotted.

 

[Huntsmans Bane]

Well may not be able to sit on them. But can sure put them in an very uncomfortable position when seating into a pool side lounge chair not realizing a webbing is rotted.

 

[Ridge Runner]

"We are expected to do anything instantly. The impossible takes a few minutes." US Navy Seabees.

"We've done so much for so long with so little we're expected to do anything with nothing." US Navy Seabees.

That second one is by U.S. Army (light infantry) grunts.
Used by: All You Others.

 

[Ridge Runner]

@Corey0372
Don't need my son's to stand beside me. I'm big enough to fill the doorway in my own.
As my dad used to say in Korea.
Yeah I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death and I will fear no evil
Because I'm the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
Bob

Your dad must have been an army grunt.

Our revised version:
As I walk through the valley of death I fear no evil, for evil fears me, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.