Interesting quotes

I have a habit of saving interesting or thought provoking quotes. I just stumbled across my quotes file

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water." W.C. Fields

That I was on the wall when you ate lunch at the Huisache.

Define "on the wall" please.

Tell me to what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Watch out where the huskies go, don’t you eat that yellow snow.
Frank Zappa

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

“Why would anyone want a computer in their home?”
Ken Olsen, founder and CEO of the now defunct Digital Equipment Corporation

“Lead Me, Follow Me or Get Out of My Way. “
Gen. George Patton

That is my philosophy when I am driving!

Lady Astor: “If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.”

Winston Churchill: “If I were married to you, I’d drink it.”

“There is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse”

-Chris Hatfield

I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

Curtis Lemay

“The problem with internet quotes is they can’t be verified”- George Washington

All kidding aside both solids quotes. Thomas Sowell is a good one

Nothing succeeds like excess. - Oscar Wilde

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

Plan your life. Do not just be there when it happens.

There are very few problems in life that can't be cured by a suitable application of high explosives. - Me

"Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers,free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
- Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader

"I used to be a people person...until people ruined it" - Creekrunner

This pretty much describes me as I get older and post covidian behavior.

A great man for sure!

If you fail to prepare, then prepare to fail.

Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: That if
you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on
the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the
day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers—then you have not merely
killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed
because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could always
recapture the day - Robert Ruark

I thought I was in a bad mood, but after several years I just accepted it as who I am.

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."

James Mattis

"America will not be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Abraham Lincoln

The date of a quote can be as telling for the current generation as the quote itself. A book that I picked up in small book store in Bozeman, MT is packed full of them.

"We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected." - Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

"The pleasure of the sportsman in the chase is measured by the intelligence of the game and its capacity to elude pursuit and in the labor involved in the capture. It is a contest with sharp wits where satisfaction is mingled with admiration for object overcome." - John Dean Caton, The Antelope and Deer of North America (1877)

Little Red Book of Hunter's Wisdom

"Your pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle, you never should have set down in the first place."
-Col.Jeff Copper

"A smile and a handshake will get you a long way. A smile, a handshake and a gun will get you farther". Al Capone
"I am a kind person. I am kind to everyone. If you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for". Al Capone

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

"Violence solves everything. "

My nine year old niece. That kid is awesome.

"The only people I owe loyalty to are those that have never made me question theirs."

Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to maintain balance, you must keep moving.


Albert Einstein

All you need to get elected is a nice family and good hair.

My dad. RIP pops!

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -


Albert Einstein

"It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.”
― Aesop

Another Albert Einstein:

"I have no idea what WW III will be fought with, but WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis. - Henry S. Haskins

What's funny to you and what's funny to me are two different things.

Indian food and airplanes should never be mixed -My Dad

Fred Bear was known for having many great quotes related to hunting and the outdoors.

"If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together."