Great quotes.....

[LINETRASH]

Better to remain silent and be regarded a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Shin: device for finding furniture in the dark. (also useful for locating your ball hitch)

Dyslexics of the world, Untie!

Ever stop to think and forget to start again?

Originalty is the art of concealing your sources.

No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

I can resist anything but temptation.

[Squizzy]

I was watching an interveiw from the US with a Pro-gun lobbiest and he was asked "what is your idea of gun control?" to which he replied
"Making sure every round lands on its target":D

[woody]

Deny everything admit nothing and make counter accuations....Kill em all and let god sort em out....never turn your back to a threat....keep your head on a swivel....watch your six(your back for you non-military folks)....ride tall in the saddle and shoot staight and tell the truth! Don't CHEAT yourself out of an EXPERIANCE! woody for now

[Meat]

Good one for apprentices."Don't wish it were easier,wish you were better."

[woody]

The only easy day....was yesterday! woody

[Koga]

looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck , its a **** duck.

Aint nothin wrong with a duck except its bill !!! Or... if a duck would just keep his bill shut he wouldn't get his ass shot off.

If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass.

Don't come down the same way ya went up.


Koga

[loodvig]

If you put polish on a turd it's still a turd!

[loodvig]

"I was lookin for a job, when I found this one."

"Have tools...will travel".

Words I've always lived by.

Or 'I came here looking for a job and I'll leave here looking for a job'

[LINETRASH]

Like trying to pick up a turd from the clean end.

If a buzard had a piano up his ass there would be music in the air.

I'm lost as a ball in high grass

Busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

[Alan Mac]

It sticks out like a turd on an icerink.

Mac

[Squizzy]

Have a good look up every pole it could be your last...

[Alan Mac]

If I didn't know better, I wouldn't be a lineman.

It comes with the standard warranty - five minutes or until I leave site.

As long as the lights come on....


Mac

[Alan Mac]

Don't know if you guys use Whitworth threaded bolts but I always refer to 1/2 Whit as engineer size.

Mac

[Alan Mac]

No point standing there looking up, it ain't gonna get any shorter.

Mac

[PK270]

It's easier to ask forgiveness than ask for permission

[duckhunter]

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain.......and most do. Mark Twain

[Squizzy]

[QUOTE

It comes with the standard warranty - five minutes or until I leave site.

[/QUOTE]

We use - It comes with a drive away away guarantee, when we leave so does the warranty...

[boskom]

Great quotes about life (http://quotesaboutlifeandhappiness.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-quotes-about-life.html) .....

Better to remain silent and be regarded a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Shin: device for finding furniture in the dark. (also useful for locating your ball hitch)

Dyslexics of the world, Untie!

Ever stop to think and forget to start again?

Originalty is the art of concealing your sources.

No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

I can resist anything but temptation.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo

[thrasher]

Never underestimate the power of human Stupidity.

If it sounds to good to be true, it is.

An elephant: a mouse built to government specifications.

A committee: an entity with three or more heads and no brains.

Rust never sleeps.

If you can't teach it, you don't know it.

[duckhunter]

Nobody cares what you know, till they know that you care.

[scratchpad]

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it

[duckhunter]

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
... Abraham Lincoln

[RWD]

"Oh ****" I think it can be attributed to Adam or Eve ....

[electriklady]

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
... Abraham Lincoln

Here is another good one I read....

You cannot help the poor by rewarding only the rich
You cannot strengthen the weak by turning all power over to the strong
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift to only a certain class of people
You cannot lift the wage earner up by giving all to the wage payer
You cannot further the BROTHERHOOD OF MAN by pandering to only one class
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence and giving it to those who will abuse and exploit it.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves, but we must not turn our back on those who genuinely need a helping hand, thus building the BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.

[heelwinch]

This is my favorite,

" I hired on as a meter reader now I's are a teknicien."

[muddy]

my father- in-law, who is also a Lineman says, when people complain about everyday hard work and having to travel sometimes, he says "The table is to low for that person" i may sound stupid but it took 10 years and alot of hard work and alot of dumb mistakes to figure out what that meant

[duckhunter]

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority

[duckhunter]

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin."

- Lillian Carter (mother of 64th President, Jimmy Carter) and don't forget Billy.

OMG, that is funny!

[wudwoker51]

That is incredible. I bet "jimmy"...don't talk to his mom much anymore.:D

Well, if she can rest assured.
Her son, will only go down in history as the SECOND worst president of the United States. Cause barry...has eclipsed Jimmy...10 times over.:mad:

Say what you want about Jimmy Carter, but how many presidents can say they never dropped a bomb on anyone during their term. Someday history will show that he was a "good" president. George W. Bush will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the worst, without a doubt.

[duckhunter]

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right

[heelwinch]

" YOU COCKSUCKING BIGGOTED FAGGOT"

Steve Batts talking to his mother.

[rob8210]

It's all over but the crying.


The difference between a good job and a bad job is 10 minutes.

[Highplains Drifter]

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."Will Rogers

[wudwoker51]

"The huge advantage of Canada is it's backwardness":D

[wudwoker51]

A huge disadvantage to Canada is it's neighbour. :(
FUDDLE DUDDLE!

[wudwoker51]

Now why would you have quote Pierre Elliot Trudeau??? I would not have even thought you would know anything about our late Prime Minister.


"In Canadian English, fuddle duddle is a euphemistic substitution for "fu(k" or "fu(k off", a notable use of which was by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, during his time as Prime Minister of Canada."


The son of a *****.

Don't know much about his "Mum", but I sure liked Margaret:D

[wudwoker51]

"The huge advantage of Canada is it's backwardness":D

Who said it CL?

[cololinehand]

whose materials were in the way, "You can move it or I can move it, but you're not going to like the condition it is in when I'm done." He got it moved!

When switching in questionable cable "Hail Mary full of grace please let this not blow up in my face."

Linework is like a jar of peanuts, you never know which nut you're going to work with next.

[wudwoker51]

"The huge advantage of Canada is it's backwardness":D

Marshall McLuhan-a Canadian educator and scholar (smart guy huh CL)

[wudwoker51]

"The Canadian is not an American-at least not entirely,not yet." Alistair Horne (British historian);)

[wudwoker51]

My goodness. You are into Canadiana, aren't you?


The quote is quite true and getting truer every day. :(

Why the hard-on for Americans CL? Aren't we supposed to be FRIENDS and ALLIES? (& Brothers)

[wudwoker51]

Actually, as I have pointed out a number of times, I don't hate Americans. There are many on earth that do but Canadians don't really.

We do laugh at you; a lot. Sometimes we just shake our heads and roll our eyes. And yet other times you leave us scratching our heads in wonderment.

We are different, to be sure, but have similarities. We have similar early backgrounds and were populated by European settlers. However our values are very different.


One point is that Canada does not have Marines as a Naval military force. Now if you think about that it can give you an insight into the differences.

Those who have Marines are: USA, UK, Netherlands, Japan (did), Russia, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France and some less significant countries that copied those that colonized them.

Marines, by history, are a force aboard ship to control mutinies and be a fighting force to protect ships company while making landfall. They are also an invading force carried aboard ship. In essence, most countries that have Marines have designs on gaining control and influence of more land.

Canada is still in settlement mode and controlling the area we already have. As the farmer said, "I already have 40 acres to plow. I don't need more land."

Canada has been invaded by foreign forces once since it was established, except for when Britain defeated the French in Quebec in 1759 . (I guess the Indians might have something to say about that). Canada became British as was much of the USA at the time.

That INVASION was at the beginning of the War of 1812. The USA was the attacking force and the initiator of the war. The USA has supported forces of the Fenian Brotherhood in the late 1860's raids into Canada. There is evidence in released secret files in the US that both times Canada was at war during WWI & WWII, when the US was not committed, plans were made to "rescue" Canada if the European war went badly for the Brits.

With all that said, Canada and the USA have enjoyed many decades of sharing the longest undefended international border in the world and have had a lucrative trading relationship for nearly 2 centuries.


I'm a Canadian, born and raised. I like being a Canadian and equally enjoy not being an American. I don't mean anything derogatory in that, it's just the way it is.


I guess the best way to put it would be like the Alberta rancher. "Ah hell, I trust you'all ............... but I do brand my cattle."


USA - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Canada - Order and Good Government.

I have to agree that we worry to much about the "World" and sometimes stick our noses where they don't belong. I wish we did not have the "policeman of the world" title bestowed up on us and concentrated more on the problems we face at home. I like being an American and not a Canadian also but enjoy visiting Canada when I get the chance. I don't think the Alberta rancher would say "you'all" but "you y'know." Here's a joke that that sums up our cultures- An American, a Scot and a Canadian were in a car wreck and were all taken to the same hospital but all 3 died before arriving. Just as the toe tags were being put on the American stirred and opened his eyes. Astonished the doctors and nurses asked what happened. "Well" said the American "I remember the crash and then a bright light and then the Canadian, the Scot and I were standing at the gates of heaven. St.Peter approached us and said we were too young to die and that for a donation of $100 we could return to earth. Of course I pulled out my wallet and gave him a $100 and the next thing I know I was here." "That's amazing" said the doctor "but what happened to the other two?" "Last I saw them" replied the American, "The Scot was haggling over the price and the Canadian was waiting for the government to pay for his.":D

[wudwoker51]

Rural So Western Albertan ranchers have a large Drawl much like their counterparts in Montana, Utah etc. Many of those early settlers around the late 1800's were from Utah. It's sorta like driving though a Gary Cooper movie, considering Cooper was born in Helena, Montana, very close to that area of Alberta.

Lived in SW Wyoming for nearly a decade, so I know where you are coming from.

[wtdoor67]

"They say I am ignorant and don't know how to spell. They say I spell bird, burd, if burd don't spell burd, then what in hell does it spell?" This was attributed to George Hurst, an early California Senator and father of William Randolph Hurst.

"Frankly my dear, I just don't give a ****". Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara.

Custer's remarks to a Crow scout at Little Bighorn. "Holy cow, look at all them f--king indians!"

Napoleon in Russia. "Don worry Bon Amis, it's jist a little snow."

Swamp's daddy to swamp's mother. "We'd have been better off if you'd knocked him in the head and raised a pig on the milk."

[twodogs73]

If God made anything better than ***** and beer ...........He kept it for himself.

[heelwinch]

AN AMERICAN WITHOUT A GUN??? WRONG THEY JUST USE MORE RESTRAIN IN OWNERSHIP AND CAN USE DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT ONES LIFE, WITH ONE EXCEPTION, AND YOU ARE THAT ONE EXCEPTION. TO PROTECT THE MORAL IQ OF THIER COUNTRY, THEY HAVE A STANDING ORDER TO SHOOT ON SITE YOU OR YOUR IGNORANT BUTT BUDDY SQUEEL*****.

Well.. the FAT ASS Won't respond to my posts but he sure as hell knows how to take everybody elses OFF TOPIC.

FAT AASS

[loodvig]

"Look at all the friggin indians".......................Gen. Custer at the big horn!

[heelwinch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eiEaK4GXtw&feature=share

[duckhunter]

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

[duckhunter]

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

[duckhunter]

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

[duckhunter]

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

[wtdoor67]

"I say, let them eat Pizza". Anne Boleyn

"Hurry, ever chance you get". Unknown lineforeman.

"If the shoe doesn't fit, wear it anyway". Unknown cobbler.

"Room, room, give him room". Man cleaning up after circus elephant.

"I know not, what course others may take, but as for me, I'm taking my ass to Canada." Swampchicken at Concord bridge.

[duckhunter]

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, "Thank God, I'm still alive." But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
-- Sen. Barbara Boxer, (D, Calif.)

[duckhunter]

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl. -- Marion Barry

[duckhunter]

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
-- Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.

[duckhunter]

You know the one thing that’s wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.” - Bill Clinton,

[duckhunter]

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Barack Obama

[duckhunter]

I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go.
Barack Obama

[wtdoor67]

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

[wtdoor67]

The first indian who heard a train thought it sounded like a tornado.

[duckhunter]

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

[duckhunter]

“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”

[duckhunter]

“Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.”

[duckhunter]

“You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else”

[Highplains Drifter]

"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." ~Abraham Lincoln

[duckhunter]

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Highplains Drifter]

"Income taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf"
Will Rogers

[duckhunter]

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers

[wudwoker51]

"Prejudices is what fools use for reason." Philosopher (this would be a great name for a lineman!)

[duckhunter]

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
- Daniel Webster

[Boomer gone soft]

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism ~ Norman Vincent Peale

[heelwinch]

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder

[heelwinch]

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[heelwinch]

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

[heelwinch]

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.
Sylvia Pankhurst

[heelwinch]

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton

[heelwinch]

what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

[heelwinch]

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler

[wudwoker51]

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

"It's hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

[duckhunter]

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
- Stanislaw Lem

[duckhunter]

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke

[duckhunter]

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
- Bob Inglis

[Highplains Drifter]

Picture from the Royal Wedding

[duckhunter]

Always drink upstream from the herd.
- Will Rogers

[duckhunter]

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker

[wudwoker51]

"Men are equal; it's not birth but virtue that makes the difference."

[heelwinch]

"It's hard to free fools from the chains they revere."



Quote:
Originally Posted by heelwinch
I don't get it... you keep telling EL to heel, but she hasn't even posted in this thread.
Some might find this constant berating of the females on this board a little immoral.

EL knows who I'm sending "HEEL-*****" to! Any female that frequents this site knows I only berate "**** STIRRERS LIKE YOU." Tell you what HW, I will not respond to any more of your posts if you do not respond to mine or mention me in any of your posts. I am a man of my word, now we will see if you are. I have my doubts!__________________
" When character is lost, all is lost "

[wudwoker51]

"Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.":p

[duckhunter]

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
- Socrates

[Boomer gone soft]

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Dr. Martin Luther King

[duckhunter]

I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money.
- Bob Hope

[heelwinch]

For everyone who doesn’t get me: It goes mind over matter. I don’t mind and you don’t matter.”

[heelwinch]

“You’d be in good shape if you ran like your mouth.”
— Unknown

[Boomer gone soft]

For everyone who doesn’t get me: It goes mind over matter. I don’t mind and you don’t matter.”

The truth is everybody matters......

......even you.

[duckhunter]

The truth is everybody matters......

......even you.

Beautiful, just beautiful.

[electriklady]

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Dr. Martin Luther King



I think that is one of the best "thoughts" a man could have. It shows a reverence for life, no matter the evil manifested in that life, a death is nothing to rejoice in unless...........

[Senko11]

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary

[heelwinch]

'Some folks are wise, some are otherwise'. Tobies George Smollett

[heelwinch]

'It is always the minorities who aren't part of a mainstream who define what the limits…of the majority are going to be.' Rose Elizabeth Bird, US Chief Justice, California

[heelwinch]

I'm not an American! I am a Canadian. I come from a "nice", thoroughly unrealistic country.
Matthew Fisher

[heelwinch]

Canada? I don't even know what street it's on. Al 'Scarface' Capone

[heelwinch]

I see steve has been trying to quote Hamlet over and over in one of his rants... He hasn't quite got a grip on the actual wording so I thought I would post it for him here so as not to take the 11 other topics off thread like he has.

" The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

Shakespeare's Hamlet.

[heelwinch]

" oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to decieve"

Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

[duckhunter]

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

[heelwinch]

"He's (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."
Patty Murray- Democratic Senator Washington (speech to a high school honors class)

[heelwinch]

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

[heelwinch]

A pedestrian is guy who counted on his wife to put some gas in the car. -- Anonymous

[heelwinch]

The mind of woman is easily misled. She yields to her desires and surrenders to jealousy more easily than a man. Therefore it is difficult for a woman to follow the Noble Path. -- The Buddha

[electriklady]

Once a man is easily intimidated by a woman with intelligence and a voice, he remains a cowardly boy till the end of his days.

ME

[heelwinch]

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. Charles Caleb Colton

[electriklady]

people who live in glass houses shouldnt throw stones........




oh and "once a liar.......always a liar" referring to the previous post that you have me on IGNORE....hehehehehehehehehehehehehe....Knew you were more full of **** than a port o potty at a rock concert.

*******!

[heelwinch]

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.”

Charles Caleb Colton

[heelwinch]

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway

[heelwinch]

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan

[duckhunter]

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
- Shaquille O'Neal

[heelwinch]

"Out ****ed spot, out I say"
Lady Macbeth

[heelwinch]

"See, Barack's been talking down to black people on this faith-based...I want to cut his nuts off." --Jesse Jackson,

[Highplains Drifter]

"Did you ever notice that everyone in favor of birth control has already been born?" Benny Hill

[Highplains Drifter]

If God had not meant man to have sex with a goat, why put the horns in such a handy position? Swamprat

[heelwinch]

If God had not meant man to have sex with a goat, why put the horns in such a handy position? Swamprat


Brokeback Mountain
Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don't you? Why don't you just let me be? It's because of you Jack, that I'm like this! I'm nothin'... I'm nowhere... Get the **** off me! I can't stand being like this no more, Jack.

[ratbastard101]

You cannot make chicken salad out of chicken ****. Dad

It is better to remain silent and have some people think you are dumb than it is to open your mouth and remove all doubt.


If I am responsible for my own safety then why should I give any credit to the company I work for, the union I pay dues to, or the government I pay taxes to?


Don't piss down my back and tell me it is raining.


Use your head for something other than just a hat rack.


Let your conscience be your quide.


I have seen straighter bananas. (in reference to a long compression splice being bowed during installation.)


Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

[ratbastard101]

Can[/B]adianLineman;102415]NEW member.

Another one of the Idiot's Gallery quoting WHO???

If brains were dynomite CL would not be able to blow his nose. Rat*******101


Theres a quote with an author for ya.

[heelwinch]

"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."

-John Harrison

[heelwinch]

Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.

-Jenny Sanford

[heelwinch]

Continuous effort---not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

-Winston Churchill

[heelwinch]

This one has been posted somewhere before but I think I will post it in here once a week for emphasis.


You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln or Rev. William J. H. Boetcker.

[heelwinch]

What afflicts us is a corruption of the heart, a turning away in the soul. Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned toward the wrong things. And only when we turn them toward the right things--toward enduring, noble, spiritual things--will things get better.

- John Buchan

[heelwinch]

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Highplains Drifter]

What afflicts us is a corruption of the heart, a turning away in the soul. Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned toward the wrong things. And only when we turn them toward the right things--toward enduring, noble, spiritual things--will things get better.

- John Buchan


You don't understand spiritual things, but still posted this quote.

[heelwinch]

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

[Highplains Drifter]

“Swampy picks his nose and eats his boogers.” wtdoor67

[Highplains Drifter]

Japanese proverb: First the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the man.

[heelwinch]

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”


Andrew Carnegie

[heelwinch]

Japanese proverb: First the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the man.










“A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr”


Sydney Smith

[heelwinch]

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Highplains Drifter]

Wikipedia

A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, especially one exhibiting intolerance, and animosity toward those of differing beliefs. The predominant usage in modern English refers to persons hostile to those of differing race, ethnicity, nationality, inter-regional prejudice, gender and sexual orientation, homelessness, various medical disorders particularly behavioral disorders and addictive disorders and religion or spirituality. Forms of bigotry may have a related ideology or world views.


Dictionary.com

Bigot - a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.




Miriam Webster

Bigot - : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance





Smith

Bigot - Heel*****








Urban Dictionary: Bigot.... One who is narrrowly or intolerantly devoted to his or her opinions and prejudices. This word is a general term that applies to everyone (racists, anti-Semites, misogynists, homophobes and xenophobes).

[duckhunter]

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

[wudwoker51]

"He must be very ignorant, for he answers every question he is asked." Man I'm starting to like this guy as much as Jackie Gleason.:D

[duckhunter]

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

[Boomer gone soft]

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey

[heelwinch]

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb

[heelwinch]

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu

[heelwinch]

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ~Robert Brault

[wudwoker51]

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.:D

[heelwinch]

“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.”
Lawrence G. Lovasik

[heelwinch]

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

[MI-Lineman]

"Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after."
- Thomas Fuller

[MI-Lineman]

While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free”
Eugene Debs

[MI-Lineman]

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz

[Boomer gone soft]

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.:D

Actually it is. In fact Stupidity kills. The only problem is it usually doesn't kill or maim itself.....

[Boomer gone soft]

"Do we fear terrorism so much that we will not have debate? Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?"

Sen. Rand Paul

[heelwinch]

"We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems."



Ronald Reagan

[heelwinch]

"We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. You can see heroes every day going in and out of factory gates. Others, a handful in number, produce enough food to feed all of us and then the world beyond. You meet heroes across a counter--and they are on both sides of that counter. There are entrepreneurs with faith in themselves and faith in an idea who create new jobs, new wealth and opportunity. They are individuals and families whose taxes support the Government and whose voluntary gifts support church, charity, culture, art, and education. Their patriotism is quiet but deep. Their values sustain our national life."


Ronald Reagan


I hope I live to see another great man like Ronald run this country. He was class and intelligence personified.

[MI-Lineman]

"If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with."
Ronald Reagan, April 7th, 1970
Governor of California & soon-to-be US President,
on his attitude towards student civil rights activists,
dissenters, & Vietnam War protestors

[MI-Lineman]

"Before you go and criticize the younger generation, remember who raised them."

Unknown Author?

[heelwinch]

And if you had been alive you would remember that there was a Blood bath, only not because of what Ronald said but because of what he was trying to prevent.
Kent State university massacre.

It was a good quote though.

[MI-Lineman]

"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.":eek:
Jimmy Carter

[MI-Lineman]

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
Arthur Ashe (American social Activist and Tennis Player, the first black winner of a major men's singles championship. 1943-1993)

[heelwinch]

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
Arthur Ashe (American social Activist and Tennis Player, the first black winner of a major men's singles championship. 1943-1993)

That's a great quote... symbolic to this weekend.

See... you aren't a whole lot dumber than your horses........

[heelwinch]

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~Minot J. Savage

Thanks to the service men.

[MI-Lineman]

That's a great quote... symbolic to this weekend.

See... you aren't a whole lot dumber than your horses........

If you knew what it cost (not just financially either:rolleyes:) to feed and care for'em you'd recant that statement!:o Ah but what a way to explore but on a horse (and a 30 pk in the saddle bags!:cool:)?

Anyways, I thought it would be proper for this weekend? Gonna find one for each of the next days.

[MI-Lineman]

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~Minot J. Savage

Thanks to the service men.

Amen!

"Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave”
Muhammad

[MI-Lineman]

"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." Thomas Campbell

[Orgnizdlbr]

“Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.”

[MI-Lineman]

"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped." M.L.K.Jr

[LostArt]

“Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

Since Georgie didn't leave a name, I went searching and found an article to read this morning. :D

[neil macgregor]

"lets invade russia"

A Hitler

[heelwinch]

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

[heelwinch]

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

[heelwinch]

I like the HELL out of that Quote!:cool:

Yes... could you imagine if Churchill and Reagan had combined their wit for public speaking???

[heelwinch]

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

Ronald Reagan
Republican National Convention, 1992.


That's funny as hell.

[MI-Lineman]

They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.
~Philip Freneau

Man! I thought that described 9/11 and Afghanistan and those who rose up to the occasion perfectly?

THANK YOU SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN PAST AND PRESENT!!!

[Highplains Drifter]

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
-Michel de Montaigne

[Orgnizdlbr]

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice." Dwight Eisenhower

[electriklady]

It seems we are surrounded by many fools these days, Labor:mad:

[Orgnizdlbr]

It seems we are surrounded by many fools these days, Labor:mad:

Yes Becky, sadly we are surrounded by fools who themselves are manipulated by the puppeteers who pull the strings.....

[duckhunter]

If you put the Federal Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.

[topgroove]

" What the F@&K (F@&K) was That"

Mayor of Hiroshima, 1945

[wudwoker51]

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

[duckhunter]

You forgot to name who made my quote. It was Milton Freidman.

[duckhunter]

"it's the economy stupid"

Many give it to Bill Clinton, but it was Carville's.

[duckhunter]

I believe that was Mr. Happy Pants.

[heelwinch]

Once again SBATTS ruins another thread with his trash talk.... How's that FBOD working out for you?

[heelwinch]

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Chris Patten

[heelwinch]

“Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it”

[heelwinch]

“We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”


Bill Watterson

[wudwoker51]

"Everyone is entitled to be STUPID, but some abuse the privilege.":p

[wudwoker51]

"There's an old saying in Tennessee-I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, fool me once, shame on-shame on you. Fool me-you can't get fooled again." Sometimes I really miss this dumb motherf%#^er. NOT! Sad thing is, he was one of the smarter Republican'ts.

[topgroove]

Hmmmmm. I wonder what kickbacks Sen. Lindsey Graham will get from this. Sure, trash union jobs in one State for lower paying non-union jobs in his state. what a jerk wad.

[MI-Lineman]

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew

[Highplains Drifter]

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? ----George Carlin

[Mike-E]

"Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become."

[heelwinch]

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

[heelwinch]

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

[heelwinch]

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

[Highplains Drifter]

"I get speakers' fees from time to time, but not very much."



-- Mitt Romney, who collected more than $362,000 in speaking fees in 2010. He said the rest of his income is from investments, “probably” taxed at 15 percent, far less than the 25-28 percent rate paid by most middle-class Americans. He’s worth an estimated $200 million.

[duckhunter]

"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

[billg]

"I'm a victim of circumstance." - Jerome "Curly" Howard

[Highplains Drifter]

''I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts. ... If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. .... That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.''

—Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), speaking to a reporter in 2003