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"It's better to have a lobster on your piano, than a crab on your organ" - posted in a USAF Clinic

"Always end an argument with a decision" - former boss

"Don't do anything stupid !" - Gen. Slay
"I'LL decide what's stupid !!" - Gen. Slay


Stoplight...
 
My Grandfather: (quote).....in response to something bad that happens to me, you or anyone, "Well, its better than a chicken pecken' on your sore"...
 
"It's better to have a lobster on your piano, than a crab on your organ" - posted in a USAF Clinic

"Always end an argument with a decision" - former boss

"Don't do anything stupid !" - Gen. Slay
"I'LL decide what's stupid !!" - Gen. Slay


Stoplight...

Leave it to an Air Force clinic to have a quote like that on their board.
 
When I was a teenager in high school, my father would say to me after me staying out late, "Say son...I think you have your days and nights mixed up"....I got the point immediately...my father is gone...bless his soul....but I have never forgot that quote of his.
 
The late Chick Hearn (LA Lakers announcer), in reference to a cold shooter, "He couldn't throw a pea into the ocean, today"......:D
 
From The Immortal Dirty Harry

I know what you're thinking- "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But, being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Any better?
 
"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer."
Charles Alexandre de Calonne

When Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State in the Nixon White House he is said to have once joked:
“The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
 
"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein
 
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "

Abraham Lincoln
 
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

"This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. "

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

And for the ladies man that Ben was.

"To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends."
 
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "

Abraham Lincoln

When and where did he say that?
 
When and where did he say that?
Probably around 1850 something, at his address there in Gettysburg..
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I liked what Birchtree said something like "We need to start preaching shame again". I can't find his post.
 
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