"Squirrel!"
Dug
"Squirrel!"
Dug
Stated by oldsaw just a couple minutes ago:
"Skepticism doesn't deserve ridicule; it has earned decades of respect."
Matthew Quigley: "I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it. "
What the Berkely was that?!?!?!
mthomson22 wrote: What the Berkely was that?!?!?! - Mayor of Hiroshima 1945
Mother berkeleyer!
-Mayor of Nagasaki 1945
"Life is tough. It's even tougher when your stupid."
John Wayne
"Light it up!"
"I got a new job!" - DukeOfUndersteer
"Whatever you do, take care of your shoes" - Little Feat.
"Hold my beer man, watch this".
-Anon
if you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly bear! - jon haas
it's OK to have standards. it's also OK to lower 'em. -- my Dad
when you get to the bay bridge, when you stop to pay the toll, open the door and set your morals out, because you won't want to have them with you at the beach. but on the way home, when you stop to pay your toll, make sure you pick 'em back up. -- my Dad
a problem well-stated is a problem half-solved. -- Boss Kettering
i do! -- my wife
I can't believe this is on its 4th page and there are no Mark Twainisms yet.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
--Mark Twain
CGLockRacer wrote: One I came up with a couple years ago. "Since the Internet age, never before have so many known so little about so much."
Another one from Feynman
"You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. ... I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
ClemSparks wrote: I can't believe this is on its 4th page and there's no Mark Twain yet. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. --Mark Twain
I ran across this one the other day:
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen... Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” - Mark Twain
"You can have the gun, just make sure we have enough to get some ammo. I don't want to have to wait until payday to shoot you with it."
Hang in there, baby
Have a nice day 
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours
If you think anything is possible, try slamming a revolving door
Sometimes you succeed. Other times you learn.
here's one that my Dad pounded into me for, well he is still saying it at 83 and it still applies. I now pound it into my kids:
"if a job is worth doing then it's worth doing well"
In reply to bearmtnmartin:
And the other side of that.
"Kids." Head shake, "Never time to do it right, always time to do it over."
Every old guy I have ever worked with.
In reply to Toyman01:
The way I heard it was, "If you don't take the time to do it right, when can you make the time to do it over?"
And I was just thinking of this one. 
'I've never killed a man, but I've read obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.' -Mark Twain
'That's why the throttle turns both ways.' -Roger DeCoster
'Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.' -Mahatma Gandhi
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Tedy Roosevelt
You'll need to log in to post.
