Trust but verify!

Just one idiot can screw everything up!

Do it once and do it right!

Always do your best!

Just because it is there, doesn’t mean I have to climb on it!

Love what you do and you will be good at doing it!

Love what you do and you never work a day in your life!

I wish all Satellites would crash into each other!

Internet is the downfall of humanity!

I’m glad I’m already that old!

I’m not a pessimist- I’m a realist….…

. “…….go back where you came from” “they didn’t want me either”

One guy ruling over everything is not democracy!

… Just inject some bleach… You’ll be fine!

Here are a few...

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

I've taught you everything you know; I haven't taught you everything I know.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

The Golden Rule:  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Alternative Golden Rule:  He who has the gold makes the rules!

Measure twice, cut once!

From my grandfather: "It's hell to grow old."   I always replied, "But it beats the alternative!"  Glad he stayed with us as long as he did! (1901-1991)

If you don't ask, you don't get.

USE to be my mantra;

“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.” (Thomson Citation1889).  ie Lord Kelvin

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"Better to have Died Beside Heroes, Than to Live a Lifetime Amongst Cowards"

"The Most Lethal Weapon on the Battlefield, is a Well-Aimed Bullet"

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

"You can't fix stupid." - my sister

"Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - Winston Churchill

"When all the alternatives are eliminated, the Americans will do the right thing." - Churchill again, but sometimes, not always!

When you don't know, shut up!

"Better to keep mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open mouth and remove all doubt."  Supposedly an old Chinese proverb

..."never was so much owed by so many to so few" Winston Churchill

August 20, 1940 For the Efforts of the Royal Air Force against the Luftwaffe During the Battle of Britain (10 July - 31 October 1940).

..."Woman, No see the Light, until Taken into the Dark, by a Man"

"Man who makes Love to Woman on Hillside...Not on Level"

Chinese Proverbs

..."If You're Not Kicking-Up Dust...You're Collecting It!"

(The Revolver)

"...I said I didn't have much use for one...Never said, I Didn't Know How to Use it!"

'Quigley Down Under'

"...You Know, there Ain't No Forget'in"

'The Outlaw Josey Wales'

I do not like that person. I must get to know him better. - Abe Lincoln

If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind. - Robert Hunter

"Nuts" - General Anthony McAuliffe when asked to surrender by the Germans  at the Battle of the Bulge.

Great topic! There must be a thousand quotes I admire. Not so many I can remember off hand, though.

"three reasons for equipment failure;

1) human error

2) human error

3) human error

(the designer, the machinist, the operator)"

never been able to confirm but tribute to Admiral Rickover.

"$1 charge for marking with an X, and $9,999 for knowing where to put it" - Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Time wounds all heels

A close cousin of no good deed goes on punished.

“Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” ~ Rafael Ortiz

..." Better to Have Loved and Lost, Than Never to Have Loved At All ". For KMD

" No Good Deed Goes Unpunished "

" Fortune Favors the Bold "

" In an Investigation, Assumptions Kill "

" 'Lady Luck', Loved James Bond "

Autocorrect and failure to proof read are powerful adversaries.

Funny thing about common sense - its not that common.

You can't deviate unless you have a plan.

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Father of the Nuclear Navy

"It Don't Mean Nothin'...It Don't Mean a Thing!"

"What doesn't Kill us, Only Makes Us Stronger!"

"Not Everyone who Died in Vietnam, Died There"

"You talk the Talk...Do You walk the Walk?"

"All gave Some...Some Gave All"

" It's All 'Mind over Matter'!...If You Don't Mind, It Don't Matter! "

" I AM Lying! "

..."I Don't Offer Excuses! I Give Results!!"

"...I Give You My Personal Vietnam Guarantee"

"...I am Going to Take a Personal Interest in Seeing You Suffer!"  'Platoon'

"Listen to Me Now...Or Believe Me Later"

(Now, Go Buy My 8 Inch Wheels!!)

"Which School do I teach? I Teach Them All!"

Movies:

"The Ayatollah of rock and rolla'"

and my sentimental favorite

"You men go northward, you men go southward... I'm gonna' walk here in a circle"

"...I Gotta Make a Living!"..."Well, Die'in Ain't Much of a Liv'n, Boy!!" 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

― Albert Einstein

“If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.”

"Judge Not, Least Thee be Judged"

"Before You Accuse Me, Take a Look at Yourself!"

"Even a Broken Clock, is Correct Twice a Day!"

...Any Professional,

"You're Not Paying Me for Doing the Job...You're Paying Me for Knowing HOW to Do the Job!"

"...You Smoke this Shit so's You can Escape Reality?! I AM REALITY!!!" Platoon

" The Bravery of My Enemy Does Me Honour "

Light is right

Colin Chapman

"A Man who Knows the Center of His Universe, Can Never be Defeated in Battle!" 'The Art of War'

No matter where you are, or how you got there, there you are.

Buckaroo Bonsai

...Womens' Make-Up:

"It don't Cure Ugley!"

"It's Going to Need a Second Coat!"

...Now, I'am in my own apartment and My Ex-Wife will Not except my phone calls.

...There are Three Types of People in this World!

...Those who Make Things Happen!

...Those who Watch Things Happen!

And, Those who Wonder What Happened!!

...Up at the Blackhawk Farms Raceway, in South Beloit, Illinois, it was 1971. I was there watching a friend race his Lotus...OR, was it a Lola. I know it had a Bad-ass F.I. 4 Cylinder Engine. They run the Small Engine Race Cars First. When they brought out the Big-Blocks and Prototypes, for Their Last Race, I heard over the Loud Speakers...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, It's Time to Knock the Due Off the Lilies! Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!" Great LOUD Roaring!!.

"The Safest Driver on the Highways, is Never 'Seen'!"

"Officer, I'am Not Driving Fast, I'am Flying Low!"

A comment from a Champion Roadrace Driver. "You'll Know You're Not doing very well, when all 4 Tires Are Not Off the Ground, All of the Time!!"

"I Thought You Said, We Were Done Doing Things The 'Stupid Way'!!"

"It Is The Hour of the CAT!"

"You have Engaged My Valuble Services!"

“I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.”

I just found this one yesterday, inside the first cover pages of the book Airframe (1996), by Michael Crichton, which seems to RING EVEN MORE SO TRUE today, some 30 years later :

"The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion,"

Veteran reporter John Lawton, 68, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995.

WE CERTAINLY DO NOT HEAR THIS OFTEN ENOUGH!!!  To think I worked so hard to make this reality happen...... (Cable TV fiberoptic distribution systems......and TiVo's!   Ugh.)

Steve

"...'They' won't Allow My Pantera into Heaven! So I'am Driving it Straight To HELL!!"

And Back!

In a Disagreement.

"...YOU Havn't Heard The 'Funny Part'!!

"There will Be Nothing More Asked Of the Vietnam Veteran...They've Paid Their Dues!"  President Ronald Reagen

"...Ya' Know, there Ain't No Forget'n"

"It Ain't NO Joke!"

"It's NOT the Size of the DOG In the Fight! It's the Size of the FIGHT In the Dog!"

F.O.R.D.= "Found On Road Dead"  "First On Race Day" "Fix Or Repair Daily"

And

"There are NO Small PARTS...Only Small ACTORS"

"NO Man is as Blind, as the Man who WON'T See"

"Know Your Song WELL, Before You Start Singing"

"Manners Maketh Man" 'The Kingsmen'

"...It's a 'Nun-of Your Business', Kind'a Business!"

"I Show You Up, By Showing Up!!"

"...I Don't get Invited to Too Many Partys???...Son, When I Walk into the Room...I Become The Party!!"

"I Never Followed...I Lead!!"

" 'That' may be So...But, You'll Always Be Ugly!!"

"When the going gets Tough...The Tough Get Going!"

"I Thought You Said...'We Were Done Doing Things The Stupid Way'!?"

"Don't ask me how I did it, I just did, it was hard"?  - x chandler.

Don't ask me what I did, I did it, It's done.    Me

"Amazing what 100 more horses does to this ride!"

- Mangusta

@marlinjack posted:

“If IT looks Like A Dog, Acts Like a Dog and Barks like a Dog...It's A DOG!!"

I thought it was

Duck 🦆

“When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra.”  -  Dr. Theodore Woodward

The biggest problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.

"GOT NOWHERE TO GO, SO I'M ALREADY THERE"

“When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra.”

-  Dr. Theodore Woodward

I thought that was Occam?

"If you're expecting an Apology...It's Not Coming!". Reacher

@marlinjack posted:

"If you're expecting an Apology...It's Not Coming!"

No apology necessary… Everybody makes a mistake once in a while… Lol

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck. A test devised by the US labour leader Walter Reuther (1907–70) in the McCarthy era (seeMcCarthyism)

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A lie will get around the world before the truth gets it's shoes on

...My Father use to tell Me, "Save Your Money".

"A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted!" From the 'King James Bible'

"That Money is Burning a Hole in Your Pocket!"

"There's No Excuse for Bad Manners" Thank You! Carl Greer

"Dead Men Tell NO Tales"

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

"Girls are Genius, They're From Venus...Boys Are Stupider, They're From Jupiter" My Two Daughters Sarah and Molly.

"Those that Can, Do! The BEST, are ASKED to TEACH!" President Ronald Reagan

The 'Green Berets'... a 12 Man Team, "Tough Enough to Take-On 50, Trained Enough to Teach 5000"

When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck.

“There’s no such thing as too much horsepower….. only not enough traction” … ~Carrol Shelby~ 😝👍

"Weight Is the Enemy" Ferruccio Lamborghini

"The Perfectly Engineered Racecar, would Fall Apart, Crossing the Finish Line"

Enzo Ferrari ?

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac ?"

-George Carlin

"I Say What I Mean...and I Mean What I Say!"

"I Keep My Promises, Always!"

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but what you heard is not what I meant.

Alan Greenspan.

“Right now are the good old days “

Words of wisdom from a very wise man, Dave Wise. My closest friend/ brother for 50 years.

@joea posted:

“Right now are the good old days “

Words of wisdom from a very wise man, Dave Wise. My closest friend/ brother for 50 years.

"These are the 'Good old days' " - Carly Simon

@marlinjack posted:

"How do we Eat an Elephant? One Bite at a Time!"

The deli counter man said " I can't start a whole elephant for just one sandwich."

Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santanaya

Carley Simon?  She stole that from my friend. After he left her house in the morning.

"Death from Above"

"Mess with the Best...DIE Like the Rest!"

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Martha Beck

"The F-4 Phantom Proved, with a Big Enough Engine, Even a BRICK Can Fly!!"  'Top Gun'

The Most Powerful Jet Fighter of them All. With a 'Combined' Total of 147 MIG 'Kills', by the End of 1969, during the Vietnam War.

"Excuses are Like A**Holes...Everybody Got(s) One!"

'Platoon'

"Blonds 'Have' More Fun! Brunettes 'Are' More Fun!"

A Soldier

My uncle always said “to err is human to really mess up takes a computer”

spinnin ain’t winnin

"A Friend Doesn't Offer a 'Hand-Out', They Give a Hand-Up!"

"...If this Plan goes well, we'll owe ourselves a Celebration...I Might even put a Little Whisky in Your Lemonade!"

'Two Mules for Sister Sarah'

"I Can Take 'It'! Because I can Dish It Out!!"   A Drill Sargeant

(It's Backwards On Purpose!)

And...A 'T' Shirt Slogan I Invented:

"I Am NOT A

GENIUS

Even Though You Swear I Am"

(It's for Laughs)

Is an image ok?

@larryw posted:

Is an image ok?

… the road is less traveled…

"Poor Kids are Abusing Drugs! Rich Kids are Experimenting with Them"   George Carlin

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.  Those who can’t teach, administrate.

"Those Who Can, Do. The Best, Are Asked to Teach"   President Ronald Reagen

"No Soldier ever Won a War by Dying for His Country! He Won a War by Making The Other Poor Damn Bastard, Die For His Country!"

General George S. Patton

"Tomorrow is the Very First Day, of The Rest of Your Life!"

'Then Came Bronson'

"I will Love You Until The Stars Fall From the Skies"

(I wrote this in a Poem, I sent in a Letter back in 1970. I Pluralized SKY)

"No Retreat! No Surrender!"

"Death to All Traitors!"

...A Toast, "To Absent Friends"

'Reacher'

"You Don't Work...You Don't Eat"

'Then Came Bronson'

Always remember "FIRST you pillage, THEN you burn"

-made up viking wisdom

"...Is THAT, ALL You GOT??"

"Payback is Going to Be a Mother-F'er"

"One of the Hardest Things in the Military, Mentally...Is Being the 'New Guy' "

"IT Don't Mean Noth'in...IT Don't Mean A Thing!"

"I Can Take Whatever You can Dish Out...And a Lot More!!"

"Name, Rank, Serial Number, Date of Birth"  Nothing More!

"Flyboys Never let You Down"

'Romancing the Stone'

"We couldn't Save Them All...But, We Saved Some!"

'China Beach'

… don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining…

"Loose Wires, Cause Fires"

"Don't Sweat the Petty Things...Just Pet the Sweaty Things"

'Never Again!"

'Vietnam Veterans'

"I'm Never Coming Back!!"

'When I last visited My First Wife, in Chicago'

"There Are Two Reasons Why a Blacksmith Will Go To Hell! Hammer COLD Steel, and Not Charge Enough!"

When asked where all his money went Frank Sinatra replied “I spent most of it on women and booze and I blew the rest”

"When You're Going Through HELL...Keep Going!"

"Standing By, To Stand By"

...An "Interstellar Interloper"

Mua-Mua

...What Happens "When the Irresistible FORCE, Hits the Immovable OBJECT?"

"Don't Be In The Canyons! When there's Thunder in the Mountains!!"

"Thems That Dies 'll Be the Lucky Ones"

"I May Be a Dumb-Ass...But, My Ass Ain't Dumb!!"

marlinjack: "I will Love You Until The Stars Fall From the Skies"

That was from The Doors "Touch Me."

@judgepaul posted:

marlinjack: "I will Love You Until The Stars Fall From the Skies"

That was from The Doors "Touch Me."

...Actually, They Have 'SKY' as a Singular. As I Wrote, (I) Printed SKIES...as Plural!! THAT was My Point!

See:

Yeah!

Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, babe
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?

Now, I'm gonna love you
'Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
'Till the stars fall from the sky
For you and I

Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, babe
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?

I'm gonna love you
'Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
'Till the stars fall from the sky
For you and I

I'm gonna love you
'Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
'Till the stars fall from the sky
For you and I

...Final Note! Because there is More than One Sky! There are Multiple SKIES!! And 'It' Is also Proper Grammer as 'Skys' (Must have a Capital S). Although, "Touch Me" is a song by the Doors from their 1969 album The Soft Parade. Written by guitarist Robby Krieger in late 1968, Marlin did Not Plagiarize the Sentence, He Made it Better!

"A Man who never Had a Chance...Never Took a Chance"

"If You Want to Change Your Life, First, You Have to Change Your Attitude!"

Pure genius.

...You're the Man!!

"I'm Bringing 'Sexy' Back!"

"Get Busy Living! Or Get Busy Dying!"  'The Shawshank Redemption'

"Pressure Makes Diamonds"

"don't measure your life by how many breaths you take, but by what Has taken your breath away"

"The Last time I saw a Face Like Yours...It had a Hook in it!"

"...Threaten Carter Again, and I will Put You, Your Friends...Your Entire Family, In The Ground!!"  'A Person of Interest'

"A Bank is Most willing to Loan You Money...As Soon as You Can Prove, You Don't Need It!!"

Roger T.

After a Break-Up..."Leave 'Them' Alone and They'll Come 'Home'...Wagging Their Tails Behind Them!"

One Soldier to Another

"Maggots and Worms got'a Eat, Too"

'The Outlaw Josey Wales'

"Nobody Kicks Americas' Ass! Nobody!!"

….. and Mexico pays for it!
DT

LOL

"I don't Need 'Anger Management'...I just Need People to Stop Pissing Me Off!!"

HWLLLB

"GO BACK!! Only Death Awaits You Here!!"

Pirates of the Carribean

"Dying Time is Here!" "Two Men will Enter...Only One will Leave"

Thunderdome

"A Man who Stands for Nothing...Will Fall for Anything"

Standing Guard in the Shadows..."Unseen is Undetected"

"You Better Be Right Mister! You Better Be Right!!"

"Ya Gotta Get Mean! Mad-DOG Mean!!

YODO (You Only Die Once)

...It's ALL Over, But the Crying!! Hooray for Our TEAM!!!

"He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best!"

"Lips that Touch Liquor, shall Never Touch Mine!...My Liquor, that is"

"When I Die, I will Go to Heaven, Because I've Spent My Time In Hell!"

"When I Die, Bury Me Face Down...So the Whole World Can Kiss My Ass!"

"Do I Smoke After Sex??...I Don't Know, I Never Looked!"

"Shake the Ground, Split the Sky"

'A Message sent Down from Hanoi, Hours before the '68 Tet Offensive'. My Older Brother was a Medic In It.

"For those About to Die, We Salute You"

Have a nice Veterans Day.

"What are You Going to Do?-What are You Going to Do??"

"I Don't Know, But It's going to Be Massive!!"

'The Eiger Sanction'

...You better get Your Shit Wired Tighter than That!! (Serious)

to a Vietnam Grunt, New Guy

(They will wire-up their Gear to suppress Noise in the Jungle, and to keep from 'Catching' Trip-Wires and Booby-Traps)

...Seen Posted above the Mans' Urinal

'Stand Closer! 'It's' Not as Long as You Think!!'

..."I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

..."The Men who could Fix Our Country are Too busy Restoring Old Cars!"

(Except for One Man)

" There are Old Pilots, and there are Bold Pilots...But, there are No Old-Bold Pilots"

Excepting for, General Chuck Yeager, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and others.

MJ

@marlinjack posted:

" There are Old Pilots, and there are Bold Pilots...But, there are No Old-Bold Pilots"

Excepting for, General Chuck Yeager, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and others.

MJ

That’s what my flight instructor told me and I replied… you are Old and bald… 🤗