Deep Thoughts (Washington: live, horses, health)

[maine4.us]

How far can you walk into the woods......

halfway, then you are walking out.

[quiet walker]

When I was an apprentice pipefitter we had a wonderful journeyman mentor. Confronting a difficult or complex mechanical problem, the apprentices would get to fussing over what we would do. Our teacher, an old Jewish craftsman from the recently closed Brooklyn Navy Yard, would intervene and say "Don't worry, don't worry - it can only do one of two things. It will either work or it won't." God Bless You Murray Lamb...

[AliceT]

Another thing that is sexually transmitted - Life

[mollysmiles]

from the back of my first Ipod: Music washes away...the dust of everyday life. (Berthold Auerback)


from the back of my current Ipod: ...What is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)


and from my mother: "you keep making that face Mary Elizabeth and it's gonna get stuck like that"...

[Boomerang]

Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

[Cornerguy1]

Initial Success is the Preferred Option -- XOD mantra


The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves -- Kiwi Patio, Sinai MFO

[elston]

Originally Posted by AliceT

Another thing that is sexually transmitted - Life

and insanity is hereditary.....you get it from your children.

[Ihate the big"O"]

You are not what you own

[txmom]

Comparison is the root of all unhappiness.

[Submariner]

It is better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past - Clausewitz, 1832


An admiral has to be put to death now and then to encourage the others - Voltaire, 1759


Men go into the Navy ... thinking they will enjoy it. they do for about a year, at least the stupid ones do, riding back and forth quite dully on ships. The bright ones find they don't like it in about a year. But there's always the thought of that pension if only they stay in ... gradually they become crazy. Crazier and crazier. Only the navy has no way of distinguishing between the sane and the insane. Only about 5% of the ... Navy have the sea in their veins. They are the ones who become captains ... the maddest of these become admirals - Shaw, 1950


Cease firing, but if any enemy planes appear, shoot them down in a friendly fashion- Halsey, 1945


The third fleet's sunken and damaged ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward the enemy - Halsey, message to Nimitz, after pearl Harbor


Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none - Jefferson, 1801


Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry - Cromwell, 1644


Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition - Forgy, during Pearl Harbor


The best armor is to keep out of gun-shot - Italian Military


Arms, women, and books need to be looked at every day - Dutch


The country must have a large and efficient army, one capable of meeting the enemy abroad, or they must expect to meet him at home - Wellington, 1811


A man one degree removed from idiocy, with brains sufficient to direct his powers of mischief and endurance, may make a distinguished soldier - Thakeray, 1863


governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects - Tolstoy, 1893


I was too weak to defend, so I attacked - Lee, 1870


Hard pressed on my right, My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent, I am attacking - Foch, 1914


"Safety first" is the road to ruin - Winston Churchill, 1940


You, sir, have an army. We have a traveling brothel - remark made by a captured
French officer too Duke of Wellington in Spain, 1810


The greatest weapon against so-called "battle fatigue" is ridicule - Patton, 1947


Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or tow? - Judges V 30


All warfare is based on deception - Sun Tzu, 320 BC