What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[Jim Nelson]

My favorite brother in law,a brick layer, used to say "When you think you need a helping hand the best place to look is the end of your arm".I have since added or your tractor.

 

[smilinjak]

Keep your words soft and sweet
'cause you never know which ones you may have to eat.
From Ace Reed's "Cowpokes"
Smilinjak

 

[sixdogs]

"No good deed goes unpunished"

is one that still bites me in the azz every now and then.

 

[Duwop]

"Every man is a fool at least for a day"

 

[Degolyerent]

Better to be a' has been' than a 'never was'

 

[Mace Canute]

23 % of all statistics are made up on the spot...

 

[cuoffroad]

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

T. S. Eliot

And....

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

D. H. Lawrence

 

[KiotiKowboy]

“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
—Benjamin Franklin

 

[KiotiKowboy]

In truth, there are only two forms of government; Those that recognize individual rights, and those that do not. All others are evolving toward one of the two forms. - me

A government that fears armed citizens is necessarily to blame for its fear. - also me

In a One World government, there is no where to run.

 

[foggy1111]

Even a fish would not get into trouble....if he kept his mouth shut.