“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his.” Gen. George S. Patton
“you can stick it anywhere.” --sarah michelle gellar in cruel intentions. i mean, cmon, who can honestly say a girl of that caliber has ever said that to him?
“Dear oh dear they’d fair dinkum complain at a bloody fluneral, i tell ya a bloody funeral.” - Ray warren talking about the fans at a rugby league match
Ike…
I’m a Student of War…and Koch was a “badass”…and the Battle of the Marne stood out like the Battle of Belleauwood, even among the killing and brutality of the “Killing Fields” of WW-1…
If you guys want to read about war…read about crossing the “No Man’s Lands” of France during WW-1…running through blood, mud and bodies, straight into a nest of machine gun fire…while being bombarded with anti-personnel ordinance and barely being able to breath because Mustard Gas was litterally burning your eyes and lungs…
These guys were either the BRAVEST to ever live…or the dumbest…but they often didn’t have the time to figure out which one it was…
The term “killing fields” actually comes from the Battle of Belleauwood…
In one of the greatest feats of arms in history…U.S. Marines…outmanned…out supplied…and lacking adequate Communication with their command, held off and defeated superior German forces…
Mufasa
“Compassion is the tragedy of the stupid”-U/K.
“God helps those who help themselves”-U/K
The hottest, most beautiful girl I’ve ever been with once said to me in public “I want to grab your cock and stick it in every hole in my body”. A classic.
Sayings We’d Like To See On Those Inspirational Office Posters:
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos? you probably haven’t completely understood the seriousness of the situation.
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat.
If at first you don’t succeed, try management.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
TEAMWORK…means never having to take all the blame yourself.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.
Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
Succeed in spite of management.
Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.
Most quotes suck. Here is my A-list.
T-man/T-attitude quotes
People who think they’re superior are exceedingly annoying to those of us who really are.
I’m not conceited, although you must understand that I have every right to be.
The obstacle is the path.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
– Oscar Wilde
Miscellaneous
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
It’s tough when you make an embarrassing mistake. It’s even tougher when you discover that you’re so unimportant that no one noticed it.
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand.
– Cardinal De Retz
If you add a word a day to your vocabulary, at the end of a year your friends will wonder who the hell you think you are.
One of the chief pleasures of middle age is looking back at the people you didn’t marry.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
– Bernard Shaw
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
– Jean de la Bruyere
I have so much to do that I am going to bed.
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
– Calvin & Hobbes
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people jumping up and down for joy?
I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter.
the litany against fear:
“i must not fear…fear is the mind killer…fear is the little death that brings total obliteration…i will face my fear…i will permit it to pass over me and through me…and when it has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see its path…where the fear has gone there will be nothing…only i will remain” - Frank Herbert
“A six-pack starts in the kitchen.” My friend Tricia said that. She heard it from her neighbors.
This quote comes from Paul a fellow T-man who was responding to some guy named WSTRAINER who was ripping on a different style of training and telling us what was “right.” "Wstrainer is so superior to we lowly followers! Lead us on mighty warrior into the light! You’re so smart and superior and cool and tough and manly! We bow to your vast knowledge! The coaches you know are better than the coaches we know! You RULE!
Okay, now that I’ve given him what he needs, maybe he’ll shut up."
When I read this I about shit myself laughing so hard. This was insane!!!! Yo!
This is one I overheard recently “Sloppy drunks don’t get the hunks”
It’s a bit of a thinker, but I’ve always liked this:
"The alloys produced by early iron workers were made by heating a mass of iron ore and charcoal in a forge or furcnace having a forced draft. Under this treatment, the ore was reduced to the sponge of metallic iron filled with a slag composed of metallic impurites and charcoal ash. This sponge of iron was removed from the furnace while still incandescent and beaten with heavy sledges to drive of the slag and to weld weld and consolidate the iron....Occasionally, this technique of ironmaking produced, quite by accident, a true steel."
We are forged in a crucible of pain, sacrfice and discipline. All our hardships are but blows of the hammer.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
None from Winston Churchill. The man had some high T levels, especially during the war years. Talk about balls and the ability to lead in time of almost certain defeat. This guy had it.
Here are a few of my Churchill favorites:
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Now is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps it is the end of the beginning. (on D-Day)
The Americans will always do the right thing…after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.
When you have to kill a man…it costs you nothing to be polite.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears (accepting prime ministers job)
Today, we may say alound before an awe-struck world: We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls (during the blitz)
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour (following the collapse of France, when most thought England was next)
Lady Astor to Winston:
Winston if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee!
Winston to Lady Astor: If I were your husband I’d drink it!
I leave when the pub closes. (when the newspapers called for his resignation after the war)
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (tribute to the RAF fighter command following the Battle of Britian where the Brits held off a technologically superior enemy while being outgunned 5 to 1 with no hope of replenishment)
We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. (speech following Dunkirk defeat)
Never Give in, never, never, never in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to apparently overwhelming might of the enemy (from a speech made in 1941 to his alma mater. I think he gave back what he learned there)
Hedo
my BUD/s instructor said to us that after the 6 months of training are over, we could look anyone in the eye and say, “I am quite possibly the hardest motherfucker you have ever met”
Mens sana in corpore sano. ( A sound mind in a sound body.)
A credo for everyone
“Either get busy living or get busy dying.” - Tim Robbins character in Shawshank Redemption
"Anything is possible." - Coach Davies
“This…is my boom-stick!”
Ash (Bruce Campbell), Army of Darkness
"Bathe her, and bring her to me."
-Butthead
from today’s WSJ:
“It is customary in Democratic countries to deplore expenditures on armarment as conflicting with the requirements for social services. There is a tendency to forget that the most important social service that a goverment can do for it’s people is to keep them alive and free”
RAF Air Marshall Sir John Slessor