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John R. Hall
John R. Hall Member Posts: 2,245
in THE MAIN WALL
Read this in a book the other day:

"The only difference between a grave and a rut is the depth."
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  • Dingo
    Dingo Member Posts: 38
    heheh.....

    "I think you should leave now...."

    After a customer told me our price was too high because "Its an easy job ... I could do it myself if I had the tools" ...

    .... and I offered to rent him the tools for $50


    :-)
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Harry Chapin's old epic song \"Corey's Coming\" had...

    a great line; "Reality is only just a word".
  • Craig R. Bergman_2
    Craig R. Bergman_2 Member Posts: 8
    From my...

    Grandfather.

    "Don't take life so seriously, you're not going to get out of it alive!"

    Smart man, My Gramps.
  • John Starcher_4
    John Starcher_4 Member Posts: 794
    Allegedly from Chuck Yeager......

    "I have two rules I try and live by.


    #1 - Don't sweat the small stuff.

    #2 - It's all small stuff."

    Starch
  • Wild Bill
    Wild Bill Member Posts: 111
    I can't quote the source.........but I have always liked

    "he who laughs, lasts!"
    Gotta like this simple but true saying
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    This weeks favorite...

    "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" Albert Einstein
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,601
    The only difference

    between a groove and rut is about a dozen revolutions.
    Retired and loving it.
  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,599
    How about...

    "Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries." Henry Wotton 1568-1639
    .........or....... "Difficulties lie in our habits of thought, rather than in the nature of things." Andre Tardieu 1867-1945 ........or....... "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
  • DaveC
    DaveC Member Posts: 201
    Yul...

    "So let it be written, so let it be done"
  • Ken_8
    Ken_8 Member Posts: 1,640
    Paraphrased...

    "Some people see things and wonder why.

    I see things that never were; and wonder why not."

    - George Bernard Shaw

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  • Don Walsh
    Don Walsh Member Posts: 131
    Life

    It is not a dress rehearsal!

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  • Carl PE
    Carl PE Member Posts: 203
    Half the people

    "Half the people you will ever meet are below average" - Me, a couple minutes ago.

    Sorry, not having a very good morning.. but statistically, it's true.
  • Mike T., Swampeast MO
    Mike T., Swampeast MO Member Posts: 6,928


    I don't know how we'll fight WW-III, but I do know how we will fight WW-IV - with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein
  • John Barba1
    John Barba1 Member Posts: 67
    Two favorites:

    "It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts." John Wooden (or Earl Weaver, can't remember)

    "Any day above ground is a good day." One of the drummers for the Grateful dead, can't remember which)

    And this one might be appropriate: "Two things go with age. One is memory, and I can't for the life of me remember what the other one is..."
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    As seen on my wall:

    The difference between education and experience.

    Education is what you get from reading the instructions.

    Experience is what you get from not reading them!
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Two

    " All the worlds a stage, some of us just get lousy parts ".

    My Favorite from John Hammond who was the inventer of remote control, when asked why he lived in a Midevil castle.

    " Live in the Past, Work in the present, Think in the Future".

    Scott

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  • Mike McDonnell
    Mike McDonnell Member Posts: 5
    Favorite quotes

    My favorite is:
    It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission.

    My accounting professor at the U of S ( among others I am sure)

  • heatboy
    heatboy Member Posts: 1,468
    I have two........

    Work - "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

    Life - "What goes around, comes around." I live by this.

    hb

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  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Here's another one...

    "Negotiations and love songs are often mistaken for one and the same". Paul Simon song "Hearts & Bones".
  • Joe_51
    Joe_51 Member Posts: 101


    " it's better to be pissed off than to be pissed on..." and " don't be shy or you won't get no pie! "
  • Don Robertson
    Don Robertson Member Posts: 43
    quote

    "I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything."
    -- Mike Tyson on his loss to Lennox Lewis
    Not my favorite quote but I thought it was amusing. Try this link for more of the same.
    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/quote/archive
  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    Favorite quotes,

    "Lead, Follow or get out of the way" A sign on Warren Buffets desk.

    2nd author unknown...."If your not living on the edge, your taking up too much space"

    3rd, Frank Zappa- "Hydrogen is THOUGHT to be the most abundant element in the universe. Stupidity FAR outweighs that." Chris
  • Rich daplumber
    Rich daplumber Member Posts: 14
    My favorite quote

    Departing is memorialized by the way we shape peoples lives.
  • tommyoil
    tommyoil Member Posts: 612
    Words we all live by

    MEASURE TWICE.........CUT ONCE !!!!!!
  • chuck shaw
    chuck shaw Member Posts: 584
    A good friend of my dad lived by this one

    "What the world needs is cleaner minds, and dirtier finger nails". I think it is from Will Rodgers

    My all time favorite seen on a bumper sticker

    "Visualize using your turn signal, World Peace will probally follow"

    Chuck
  • Rookie_3
    Rookie_3 Member Posts: 244
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
    is for lunch, Liberty is a well armed lamb that
    disagrees.
    Benjamin Franklin
  • jim lockard
    jim lockard Member Posts: 1,059
    A little something I keep just for me.

    Every job is a self portrait of the person that did it.


    And on the bathroom mirror in the home of a lawyer I used to work for. "If it is not in writing,it does not exist."

    Best Wishes J. Lockard
  • Mike Kraft_2
    Mike Kraft_2 Member Posts: 398
    And who can forget.....................

    "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
    -George W. Bush, Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000


    cheese
  • Dan Peel
    Dan Peel Member Posts: 431
    Or

    Salad is what food eats.
    DP

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  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    JEEZE Cheese,

    > "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big

    > foreign oil. More and more of our imports come

    > from overseas." -George W. Bush, Beaverton,

    > Ore., Sep. 25, 2000

    >

    > cheese



  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    Jeez Cheese,

    Maybe he should adhere to the old...."ears open, mouth shut teaches one more than should be learned "

    Or better yet, Abe Lincoln..."Better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth, and remove all doubt". PRICELESS!!!!

    Hey Tommyoil, I think this is far more reaching than your quote. (not that I don't agree with yours!) Chris
  • Dave L_2
    Dave L_2 Member Posts: 15
    Favorite Quotes

    My freinds Mom from across the street, " OK Boys, You don't have to be going home- but you can't be stayin' here "
  • jim lockard
    jim lockard Member Posts: 1,059
    dear old abe and uncle billy

    The victors get to write the history. Jeff Davis
  • chuck shaw
    chuck shaw Member Posts: 584
    gee,

    that one always came from my favorite bartender

    chuck
  • lchmb
    lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
    written on the wall at work

    "If in doubt read the manual! If really clueless write the manual!!"
  • Nick Z._2
    Nick Z._2 Member Posts: 32
    Great post

    Some of my favorites:
    I hate paying for the same Real estate twice." Geo Patton. I was reminded of that just today after wrestling with aboiler to get up 2 steps only to have it slide back down.
    "The dopesty **** walking down the street knows SOMETHING you don't."Roy Pauch local farmer.
    "I'm not here to make freinds, I brought all mine with me." Waddel Wilson engine builder RCR Racing.
    "Lifes battles don't always go to the sronger or faster man, sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can." Unknown
    "There is no "I" in team.
    "You can't rollerskate in a Buffalo heard." Roger Miller.
    "Fighting like the third monkey on the plank to Noahs Ark." Rosco P. Coltrain Dukes of Hazzard.
    "Ugly enough to make a freight trian take a dirt road." Geo Jones.
    "Fell off the ugly tree and hit every limb."
  • clammy
    clammy Member Posts: 3,163
    even though it's tasteless

    f them in there dead a 's if they can't take a joke sorry about the use of bad languge but i always find myself going back to that says thanks duece clammy peace

    R.A. Calmbacher L.L.C. HVAC
    NJ Master HVAC Lic.
    Mahwah, NJ
    Specializing in steam and hydronic heating

  • Woody
    Woody Member Posts: 34
    Only two ways to learn

    My grandfather once told me "there is only two ways to learn in this world, 1 - by making mistakes, & 2 - by asking questions, (I'm all done making mistakes)."

    Woody
  • Murph'_5
    Murph'_5 Member Posts: 349
    If you cannot afford to do it correct.....

    How will you afford to do it twice !!


    Murph'

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  • Paul Rohrs
    Paul Rohrs Member Posts: 357
    Never take a knife to a gun-fight.

    > My grandfather once told me "there is only two

    > ways to learn in this world, 1 - by making

    > mistakes, & 2 - by asking questions, (I'm all

    > done making mistakes)."

    >

    > Woody



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