Quote of the Day

Being the military-geek that I am - here are a few of my favorites:

"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4th Marine Brigade, Bellau Wood, 4 June 1918.

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
General George Patton

"Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way."
General George Patton

 

“You measure yourself by the people who choose to measure themselves by you…” - Carter, The Bucket List

 

............"the pope elopes"...............

 

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce

 

What you see in your mind, you can hold in your hand.

 

I'd have to have a pretty damn big hand to hold my new Taco.

 

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

 

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

 

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J. Peter

 

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon

 

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"

 

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Richard Burton

 

"Why should these curses be laid upon me...."

 

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

 

Abundance consists not alone in material possession but in an uncovetous spirit.
-Charles Sheldon-

 

fellowship of the ring, on the mines of moria.... cool movies, i like them all...

 

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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.
Winston Churchill

 

The only struggle worthy of man's unceasing sacrifice-the struggle to be free.
-Lyndon B. Johnson-

 

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi

 

my father in eguards to higher gas prices
" when your out and thirsty dont you pay 2.50 for a bottle of water"