Being a history buff, one magazine I really enjoy is True West and of particular interest is always the feature called "Truth Be Known" which consists of quotations. The January 2019 issue has these quotes among others:
I see America not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us. I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and wisdom.
- Carl Sandberg
The Internet: whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?
- P. J. O'Roarke
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record. While on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
- Will Durant
Most historical facts are unpleasant.
- Aldous Huxley
Ken
Member AKTI, TSRA, NRA.
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
Those are certainly good ones. Here is one of my favorites:
"Don't believe everything you see on the internet"-- Abraham Lincoln.
I received an email this week which contained supposed quotes from Will Rogers. I know at least one of the dozen or so was real, but I doubt the rest. Quotes are rampant on the internet to laud old personalities, and to vilify new ones. I regard them ALL as suspect. I read a fascinating article a year or so ago about the 'mis' quotes attributed to Winston Churchill.
I love quotes!
This is my most recent favorite quote as it was quoted in the book SEEING THROUGH THE EYE by Malcolm Muggeridge.
"This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole,
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye."
- William Blake
Here is one of my favorite founding father quotes:
“Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.” ― Benjamin Franklin
I worked with a guy that always said "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten" - I think it's a Henry Ford quote.
Tom
AAPK Administrator
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
In the Marine Corps I was with Headquarters & Maintenance Squadron 11; Ground Support Equipment shop. Known as H&MS 11; GSE.
We repaired all the equipment used around Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft, in our MAG (Marine Air Group) that was primarily the F-4 Phantom.
Our unofficial motto which was:
"We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we can do anything but mend the crack of dawn or fix the break of day!"
Some that I have collected over a few years:
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ... G. Washington (1732-1799)
"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." [Voltaire]
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." [Nietzsche]
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." Greek Proverb
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." –Winston Churchill
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker, old pard! Just draw on your grit, it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
~Gold is for the Mistress - Silver for the maid~
~Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.~
~Good! said the Baron, sitting in his hall,~
~But Iron - Cold Iron - is master of them all.~
I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
“I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.”
I am from Kansas, I do have flying monkeys and I'm not afraid to use them.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
The best armor is to keep out of range. - Italian proverb
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
On knives: “I am the high priestess of all things small and foldy.”
"If a man is really intelligent, there's practically nothing a good dog can't teach him. But a dumb man can't learn anything from a smart dog, while a dumb dog can occasionally learn something from a smart man. Remember that."
- Robert Ruark
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Sir Winston Churchill
To be is to do. -Socrates
To do is to be. -Sartre
Do be do be do. –Sinatra
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. –Albert Einstein.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain is credited with saying, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
There is little to no evidence to back up that claim but in my mind, the premise is still valid.
There are numerous examples of the quote, "It is better to be uninformed than to be misinformed." Again, it's the premise that is important here and not who may have first said it.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
"You have not really lived until you've almost died, For those that have had to fight for it, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."
Anonymous, but found at just about every Special Forces Camp in Viet Nam and I suspect elsewhere. Don't know if it's still used today.
Charlie
DE OPPRESSO LIBER
"...Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons ___but they are helpless against our prayers. "
My Burma Shave offering is actually from Mad Magazine and I can't imagine why it has stuck in my brain for all these years...
Be a Noble not a Knave, Caesar uses Burma Shave.
Ray
Paladin
God Bless the USA
Please visit my store SWEETWATER KNIVES
"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain
"I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy." Augustus McCrae
The Quote of Billy Wilder at the bottom of the attached picture that I cut out of the newspaper in 1994 is something we can all relate to here within AAPK.
"Buy stuff you like, that brings joy into your life, that will make you want to get up in the morning." advises director Billy Wilder.
"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
-William Dean Howells.
American Author and editor. (1837-1920)
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand things well."
-Horace Walpole.
4th Earl of Oxford.
English Author. (1717-1797)
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
-Jane Austen.
(1775-1817)
"Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once," said the small servant. Here's a state of things!" cried Mr. Swiveller…. "She never tasted it - it can't be tasted in a sip!"
-Charles Dickens.
(1812-1870)
"Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life." His last words before going down in the Lusitania.
7 May 1915.
-Charles Frohman.
(1860-1915)
The below book:
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations contains 1001 pages.
First edition: 1941
I have the 1966 edition with revisions.
Packed full of wonderful things, some literature over 2,000 years old.
It's always important to know what you don't know.
Dan
"He lit a match to check his gas and now they call him skin head".....Burma Shave. ftd
