Saying of the Week, and other Famous Quotes

[Mustanger]

“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” - Henry Ford

... maybe that's why Henry made the Mustang :thumb: ...

 

[Mustanger]

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

 

[Mustanger]

"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape." - Mark Twain

 

[p51]

"Civilizations begin with religion and stoicism; they end with skepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean."
- William James "Will" Durant (historian)

 

[p51]

"If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself"
- Carroll Shelby

 

[Mustanger]

“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...” - Abraham Lincoln

 

[BigJim]

"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with HIS money than what Barack Obama does with MINE."

 

[Mustanger]

"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart" - C.S. Lewis

 

[CougarCJ]

“Do you like green
eggs and ham?”

“I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.
I do not like green
eggs and ham!”


"Would you like them
here or there?"

"I would not like them
here or there.
I would not like them
anywhere."


Green Eggs and Ham


“I do so like
green eggs
and ham!
Thank you!
Thank you,
Sam-I-am!”

 

[GT/CS S Code]

"An ounce of Mother is worth a pound of Clergy"
:wink:
(Seen on a road side business sign while driving up to the Parksville show and shine last weekend)

 

[Mustanger]

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

 

[Mustanger]

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C. S. Lewis

 

[Mustanger]

“The wise speak only of what they know.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[68CaliSp]

"Nothing happens unless first a dream..." - Carl Sandberg

 

[Mustanger]

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." - George S. Patton

 

[Mustanger]

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." - C. S. Lewis

 

[Mustanger]

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” ~ Mark Twain

 

[Mustanger]

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain

 

[Mustanger]

eight cardinal virtues ...

1. Be clean both inside and outside.
2. Neither look up to the rich nor down on the poor.
3. Lose, if need be, without squealing.
4. Win without bragging.
5. Always be considerate of women, children and old people.
6. Be too brave to lie.
7. Be too generous to cheat.
8. Take your share of the world and let others take theirs.

- George Washington Carver

 

[Mustanger]

"We are what we believe we are." - C. S. Lewis