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Quotations you remember
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Quotes found on the internet are not always accurate.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
"Detrich's purple, man!"
Overheard at highschool football practice. Said by our center, who just happened to have come to practice on acid.
Literally, "Down! Set! "DETRICH'S PURPLE,MAN!.
Detrich, playing middle linebacker, bursts into laughter, as do I and all the other down linemen.
Coaches blow the whistle and immediately we are running double the windsprints we usually end practice with.
Good times.
Overheard at highschool football practice. Said by our center, who just happened to have come to practice on acid.
Literally, "Down! Set! "DETRICH'S PURPLE,MAN!.
Detrich, playing middle linebacker, bursts into laughter, as do I and all the other down linemen.
Coaches blow the whistle and immediately we are running double the windsprints we usually end practice with.
Good times.
Yeah, I'd used that quote in my signature on another forum for years. I'd also seen it attributed to Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, and William Shakespeare. I went with Lincoln because it sounded more believable.
Yeah, I'd used that quote in my signature on another forum for years. I'd also seen it attributed to Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, and William Shakespeare. I went with Lincoln because it sounded more believable.
I was thinking it should be someone a little more contemporary so that people will believe it for a few moments longer.
Duct tape is like the force...
It has a dark side, and a light side..
And it holds the universe together.
Any tool dropped while working on a car will always roll to the diametric center of the vehicle.
" I never drink water.....fish #%$& in it".....WC Fields
" I used to do drugs....I still do....but I used to too.. Mitch Hedberg
It has a dark side, and a light side..
And it holds the universe together.
Any tool dropped while working on a car will always roll to the diametric center of the vehicle.
" I never drink water.....fish #%$& in it".....WC Fields
" I used to do drugs....I still do....but I used to too.. Mitch Hedberg
We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; though not as great as they, still we can see farther than they did.
(quoted by and attributed to many over the years, but it originated with the 12th century scholastic Bernard of Chartres).
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
(Spinoza)
There's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution that works.
(an old guy at the church I grew up in, trying to fix a doorknob)
Don't forget the first rule of wing-walking: never let go of one thing until you get a firm grip on the next. (My dad).
(quoted by and attributed to many over the years, but it originated with the 12th century scholastic Bernard of Chartres).
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
(Spinoza)
There's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution that works.
(an old guy at the church I grew up in, trying to fix a doorknob)
Don't forget the first rule of wing-walking: never let go of one thing until you get a firm grip on the next. (My dad).
"Sometimes is is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledgehammer".
Maj I L Holdridge - Ret.
Maj I L Holdridge - Ret.
Cracking a walnut with a pile driver is a fantastic waste of energy, but the walnut is cracked just the same”. Sherlock Holmes.
