My favorite quotation

[greydigger]

Sign on an old guys desk in a R+D place I used to work at :

"Sometimes I just sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits".

 

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[Copperhead]

"The cemeteries are full of indispensable men."

Georges Clemenceau

 

[geo4472]

old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill..told to me by one of my ex-bosses when i was just starting out framing

 

[GeorgiaFlutterby]

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
...Mark Twain




Georgiaflutterby

 

[dimeaday]

Those that hammer their weapons into plows, will work for those that don't..

 

[G.I.B.]

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland

 

[fmrUSMC_0844]

"You only have the rights you are willing to fight for." Cant remember who that was from or where I saw it.

 

[Old Dog]

"I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life,
the foundation of happiness or misery."

--George Washington, letter to Burwell Bassett, 1785

 

[BIG61AL]

It is better to be an enthusiastic atheist than a hypocrite.
George Harrison

 

[patches63]

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner.
Liberty is a well armed sheep protesting the vote.

Forgot who said it, but its still good.

Bean

[benjamin franklin i think.or one of his contemporaries.good 1 /quote]

 

[discovery_bound]

"Free..........my favorite flavor."


Seriously though, one of my favorites has always been:
'We live in the land of the free, because of the brave.'


HH
DB

 

[greydigger]

This one is relevant to the season.
Kids are in bed waiting for Santa.
Mom and Dad are up late doing last minute things.
Tired after all the rush and confusion and hoping everything will be as best they can do.
One last thing before they are done and can relax in bed.
They look at each other and share those 3 magic words.












"SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED"

 

[vayank54]

" It used to be it wasn't a good day unless you dug at least 10". said by my digging buddy after I dug 5 plates in one day (he started md'g in the '50's)
"We used to throw them old US buckle away. We wanted the state plates." by another digging buddy
"We had to kick them ole eppaulettes out of the way to find the buckles." Another old time digger talking about a camp covered with brass shoulder eppaulettes
"What the h--- do I want with them bottles I threw 'em away". By an old farmer when asked if he wanted any of the old bottles we found in the woods behind his house

 

[Blacksheep]

"A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment."
(Liz Carpenter )

 

[diggemall]

"Get along with EVERYBODY at work - you never know who your next boss will be." from my Father

Diggem'

 

[Old Dog]

"Sometimes you can't do what you love to do,
that's when you have to learn to like what you have to do."

Jack Blasedell

 

[mramsoil]

"Nothing sucks like success" & "If at first you don't succeed, suck harder."

Curley Howard

 

[mramsoil]

Capitalism for those who can, socialism for those who can't.

Me

 

[greydigger]

"It takes all the running you can do to stay in one place.
To get anywhere it takes twice the running" LB Carroll {I think from The looking glass}

Grey

 

[Ozark Treasure Digger]

[True happiness isn't having what you want, but wanting what you have.