Sayings/things/ that stay on your mind

[gray wolf]

A few simple, short words that I heard that keep going through my mind.
Don't no why, Profound ? Philosophical ? who knows.

"" The difference between us and animals ""
""We can kill at a distance ""

ever come across something that stays on your mind ?

[DHurtig]

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein

[largom]

There is more to life than money!

Larry

[archmaker]

"I can replace money" (I can't replace hugs, laughs, smiles, friends)

[catmandu]

Think you can or think you can't. Either way you're right.

Paul in WNY

[MBTcustom]

Young man is telling Felix that democracy is the answer to all the wrongs in the world.
Felix: Why are you doing what you do?
Young man: I'm out to change the world!!!!
Feix: Well, I'm not interested in changing the world. I just want to make it right.

[xs11jack]

Goodsteel, that one really nails it.
Ole Jack

[histed]

Someone's tag line here, can' remember who - "You can't fix stupid" - can you keep it from reproducing?

[oneokie]

Someone's tag line here, can' remember who - "You can't fix stupid" - can you keep it from reproducing?

Only if they win the Darwin Award before they reproduce.

There is a way to fix stupid, but it is illegal.

[histed]

He He He - thought of that. Maybe Obamacare should cover sterilization as a preventative

[ACrowe25]

"A life unexamined is not worth living".

[rush1886]

This one has brought me both joy and sorrow: "There's only one way to find out..........!"

[MOcaster]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." -Debated

[oneokie]

He He He - thought of that. Maybe Obamacare should cover sterilization as a preventative

A snowball has a better chance of surviving impact with the sun.

[rondog]

And the ever popular "hold my beer and watch this...."

My Dad had LOTS of little "sayings", most of which are not repeatable here, but many were common to his generation I'm sure. Wish I had 'em written down.....

[legend 550]

For the those that can't or won't hold a job very long " some people just can't stand prosperity"

[Postalpaul]

Chicken squat behind a wash pot that's what!

Cat fart make a pair of kitten britches

Usually turns a few heads

When my wife asks where I'm going ---- over yonder be back after while

[MaryB]

You get out of life what you put into it... told that to a welfare generational whiner that was complaining his food stamps got cut. My polite way of saying get off your lazy a** and go get a job

[starmac]

does a bear ---- in the woods. lol

[DHurtig]

Someones comment about their dad reminded me of one my old man used to say.

You want sympathy, look it up in the dictionary. It's between sh!t and syphilis.

[facetious]

From my Dad.

"If you are not thinking ten years a head, you are all ready ten years behind."

" Life is getting up every day and making a bunch of decisions that you will have to live with for the rest of your life."

" If something is such a good deal, then why are thy giving it to you and not some one thy like?"

[Gelandangan]

Those that says something cannot be done should stop bothering those who are doing it.

[357maximum]

"The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind" ---Fred Bear

[leftiye]

Someones comment about their dad reminded me of one my old man used to say.

You want sympathy, look it up in the dictionary. It's between sh!t and syphilis.

Love it! My dad used to say " If you have want in one hand and s%%% in the other, which is fullest?"

[clintsfolly]

Alive and kicking is better then alive and kicked!! Clint

[Mal Content]

If you're not pulling your weight, you're pushing your luck.

I don't mind if you're stupid. Just keep it to yourself.

[Mod42]

You can wake up in the morning and be happy for what you have, or you can be unhappy that you don't have what you want! It's your choice!

[waynem34]

Life is like a box of chocolates you never know which ones have that fruity jelly **** in em.

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Two from the past that I try to remember
" Never take stock of your fears" General Patton

" Our doughts are traitors and make us loose the good we oft might gain by failing to attempt" Admiral Rickover ( father of our nuclear navy)

Mike in Peru

[Pb2au]

"Can't never did anything."

[bob208]

there is no such thing as a free lunch

a poor workman blames his tools

heard them both for the first time from my dad.

[Forty Rod Ray]

"The less you bet, the more you lose when you win"

[archmaker]

From my little brother . . . Better to be pissed off, then to be pissed on.

[bdicki]

Colder than a well diggers a$$

[Echo]

Someone's tag line here, can' remember who - "You can't fix stupid" - can you keep it from reproducing?

There were scientific studies done sometime ago on the subject. Names used were 'Jukes' and Kallicaks' as I remember. One study started with retarded girl in revolutionary times, and followed her offspring to present day, using the false name of Jukes in the documentation. Many low-intelligence offspring down the line. Many. By Many, I mean way above the average. I don't remember the exact outcome of the Kallicak's study, but the results were similar.

[jaysouth]

"A life unexamined is not worth living".


Plato?

[BAGTIC]

The Jukes and Kallikats myth has since been repudiated after review of the official records. It was, as so much is today, a fabrication of the media to attract readers/viewers.

[gray wolf]

When the student is ready the teacher will appear

Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water
After enlightenment--chop wood and carry water

Never pick the biggest and never pick the last

[bnelson06]

- "You can't fix stupid" ?

But you can slow it down with a well placed two by four.

[Smoke4320]

I don't have to outrun you and the bear... JUST you !!!

[country gent]

Heres some an early tradesman in my first job shop told me.
If its worth doing its worth doing right.
The jobs not done till your willing to sighn your name to it.
It was a small job shop older equipment ( most was flat belt) the 2 older guys were both in thier late 60s early 70s and they taught me alot starting out in the trade.

[owejia]

When we would tell my Dad we didn't know how to do something he would reply" you're not going to learn how any younger."

[histed]

"I may be drunk, but you are ugly. In the morning I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly" Churchill in response criticism of his...behavior.
Moral - look in the mirror first

[Sweetpea]

"Sweating like a ***** at a weenie roast".

"Colder than a well digger's @$$".

"Wetter than a two-c*#ted cow pissing on a flat rock".

[monadnock#5]

Hamlet's Soliloquy, Act 3 Scene 1

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

[Floydster]

Anyone that says money can't buy you happiness, don't know where to shop.
Jackie Gleason

[OBIII]

"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."

OB

[clintsfolly]

If your not on the edge your taking up to much room!! Clint

[starmac]

Built like a brick chithouse.
Built like a 40 dollar milk cow.

[MaLar]

Every body gets a turn. Is my favorite.

[BNE]

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

My Dad called called me during a very hectic time period in my career and offerred the following:
"Non-Illigitimus Carborundum" - Latin for "Don't let the Bast---s grind you down."

He also advised, "Don't let one S.O.B. drive you out of an otherwise good comapny."

[possom813]

"The smart guys always end up working for the dumb guys"

I don't remember where I read that, or what the exact words were, but it was in reference to the higher educated folks working for the less educated because the smart guy was too smart to take the chance the dumb guy succeeded with.

[Ehaver]

I don't have to outrun you and the bear... JUST you !!!

I know this one as, "I don't have to out run the bear, I just have to trip you and run!" or "If you woke up with a sore butt, would you tell anyone? If not, wanna go camping?"

[Mumblypeg]

My dad used to say" You don't believe cow horns will hook, do you?" ; Sweating like a ***** in church.

[bikerbeans]

These two apply when dealing with my BIL.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Why be difficult when with a little extra effort you can be impossible?

BB

[C.F.Plinker]

There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Taxes and appropriate gratuities will be added by your server at the end of the meal.
You can't spend your way to prosperity.

The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the schedule and 90% of the budget.
The last 10% of the project takes the other 90% of the budget and 90% of the schedule.

It is what it is.

This too shall pass.

The reason that there is never enough time and money to do it right but always enough time and money to do it over is doing it right and doing it over are on different budgets.

[Charley]

My very own signature line, from Clemens/Twain: Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. TANSTAAFL, and FYATHYRIO, both acronyms. Look 'em up.

[tommag]

That's a shovel with a rope handle.

[blademasterii]

My tag line, two wrongs dont make a right, but 3 lefts do. Also learning to fly is easy, you just have to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" On the other hand, 4 fingers and a thumb.

[Boyscout]

"Do you think you are important? Stick your hand in a bucket of water and pull it out. How big of a hole did you leave."
Grandpa Harry Becker 1917-1984

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

if it's worth doing it's worth doing right - my dad

HUSSLE HUSSLE HUSSLE , NO COMPLAINING - my uncle , did you guess he was also my coach

Rich or poor it's nice to have money - grandma

the world doesn't owe you sh-t - Mr Adams the best high school teacher

If it appears your getting something for free , Your the product - an economist explaining "free" stuff

there is no free lunch --even though some one already had it it seems fitting with you being the product , I don't go 2 days without some one wanting to sell me a list , so it is a daily reminder - I am not even in marketing- i just fix the phones

[Dale in Louisiana]

Whiteboard Wisdom (These are on my whiteboard in my office at work)


All of the carefully thought out and intelligent plans in the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, tremble in the presence of one motivated moron.

There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can’t.

“You should really do some research instead of listening to the voices in your head.”

In a just universe, ‘stupid’ should hurt, (It often does.)

Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.

We have enough ‘youth’. How about a fountain of ‘smart’?

Never let logic stand in the way of stupidity.

Roman Engineering Law: The engineer must sleep under the bridge he designed.

I’ve got to stop saying “How stupid can you be?”. Too many people take it as a challenge.

“Arrogant” is the term that mediocre people use to describe those better than themselves.

Life is like a box of morons.

One man’s magic is another man’s engineering.

“It ain’t fair!” ‘Fair’ is where you buy funnel cakes.

Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no ‘try.

Faeces Eventio. (“Sh*t happens”, in Latin)

“I don’t know much about electricity, but compare to HIM, I’m freakin’ TESLA!”

Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say.

Pessimum – The diametric opposite of optimum.

Proud member of the National Sarcasm Society – Like we need YOUR support.

Indumbnification

Stress: The result of fighting off the urge to choke somebody who really needs it.

Alcohol and calculus don’t mix. Don’t drink and derive.

Why yes, it really IS rocket science.

There is no “I” in team. There are in “group of idiots”.

Stupid kills. (But not often enough to make a real difference.)

The opportunity to excel often rides in on the coattails of idiots.

There is no amount of technology that can overcome the limits of human incompetence.

dale in Louisiana
(I am the philosopher your momma warned you about)

[Col4570]

Right is Right and wrong is no mans Right.

[Col4570]

Never confuse politeness with softness.

[OeldeWolf]

Duct tape is like The Force: It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the world together.

[gray wolf]

Coming in second simply means you were the first one to loose.

[Sensai]

Don't rush, just take your time faster!

Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes to the bone.

If you put three people together, you will have one smart one. If you put twenty people together, you will have one smart one.

I've made up my mind, don't bother me with facts!

If you wake up in the morning, it's a great day!

[Boyscout]

He's sewing his wild oats and hoping for crop failure.

[gray wolf]

A good landing is anyone you walk away from,
A fantastic landing is when you can use the plane again.

[Sweetpea]

A lack of planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part!!!

[Love Life]

I have quite a few, but none are appropriate for a family forum.

[Cornbread]

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." ~Frédéric Bastiat

[sljacob]

in response to a braggart or an unbelievable story....

"Yea and I have heard ducks fart underwater too." -my great granddad