Your Favorite Quotes - Page 37

STEED · 02-26-14, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You made it up? In the '90s? It was a common phrase here 20 years before that. In fact in one of the skits in the movie The Groove Tube (1974) there was a Russian astronaut character called Vladimir Getchuroksov.

WOW...

Thanks Steve.

Sailor Steve · 02-26-14, 10:15 AM

"We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."
-Kin Hubbard

Jimbuna · 02-28-14, 04:07 PM

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve · 02-28-14, 05:11 PM

"The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing."
-William Ralph Inge

Jimbuna · 03-01-14, 06:02 AM

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve · 03-01-14, 10:17 AM

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.”
―Thomas Jefferson advising his daughter Martha, 1787

fireftr18 · 03-01-14, 07:10 PM

"You can't remember things you don't remember."

Spoken today be the lead instructor in a firefighter class I'm helping with.

Jimbuna · 03-02-14, 06:04 AM

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve · 03-02-14, 11:05 AM

"I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object."
―Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815

Platapus · 03-02-14, 11:52 AM

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles, you would not sit down for a month -- Teddy Roosevelt

Red October1984 · 03-02-14, 10:50 PM

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the war room."

TarJak · 03-03-14, 01:56 AM

Crikey - Steve Irwin

Jimbuna · 03-03-14, 05:49 AM

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve · 03-03-14, 08:58 AM

"Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves."
―Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Religion

Armistead · 03-03-14, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Tis better to sound stupid and be smart, than trying to sound smart and end up being stupid.

I have a saying something like that.

Sometimes it's best to feign stupidity, so when you have to be smart, they won't see it coming.

02-26-14, 10:15 AM	#542
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate." -Kin Hubbard __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-28-14, 04:07 PM	#543
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,405 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-28-14, 05:11 PM	#544
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing." -William Ralph Inge __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-01-14, 06:02 AM	#545
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,405 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

03-01-14, 10:17 AM	#546
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” ―Thomas Jefferson advising his daughter Martha, 1787 __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-01-14, 07:10 PM	#547
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	"You can't remember things you don't remember." Spoken today be the lead instructor in a firefighter class I'm helping with. __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

03-02-14, 06:04 AM	#548
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,405 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

03-02-14, 11:05 AM	#549
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object." ―Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815 __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-02-14, 11:52 AM	#550
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,439 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles, you would not sit down for a month -- Teddy Roosevelt __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right. Last edited by Platapus; 03-03-14 at 06:20 AM.

03-02-14, 10:50 PM	#551
Red October1984 Airplane Nerd Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Texas Posts: 6,243 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the war room." __________________

03-03-14, 01:56 AM	#552
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Crikey - Steve Irwin

03-03-14, 05:49 AM	#553
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,405 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

03-03-14, 08:58 AM	#554
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves." ―Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Religion __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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