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| Grimm Wisdom |
Here we present for our readers delight a small selection of quotations, that may serve as an introduction to Grimm Wisdom... |
| Motorcycling |
"Remember;
There are two ways; the easy way and the wrong way." |
| "A
slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least
expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your
unit." - In the August 1993 issue, page 9 of PS magazine, the Army's
magazine of preventive maintenance |
| "You
need to thrash it Bro, Ride it like you stole it" - (Please note
the Brothers Grimm do not condone Motorcycle Theft.) |
| "I
am not interested in what it is designed to do what can it do"
- Apollo 13 Engineer |
| General |
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| "Unlike
all answers are responses, not all responses are answers. As stirring as
that response was, it did not answer the question" |
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
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| "A
good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge" |
| "If
voting were really effective, it would be illegal." |
| Mussolini
defined fascism as "the merger of corporate and government power" |
| "Young
men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think
themselves sober enough." |
| "Tactics
is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles
to win a war." - Clausewitz (1780-1831) |
| "Walk
softly, but carry a big stick, I guess you could say we're the big stick."
- Captain of the USS Enterprise. |
| "There's
so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
- Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate. |
| "The
unforgivable crime is hitting softly. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided;
but never hit softly." - Theodore Roosevelt. |
"What's the point of power if you can't abuse it ?" - VendettaX. "It is vain
to do with more what can be done with less." - William of Occam.
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| "I
learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides,
the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw. |
| "All
violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of
power." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| "We
don't need laws; we just need to be in control. We're liberals and we're
always right." - Michael Tremoglie, FrontPage MAGAZINE.com. |
| "Yes,
I am nervous but as soon as I strap that aircraft to my backside I'll be
good to go." - Tornado Wing Commander. |
| "Those who hear not the music. Think the dancers mad
" - Chinese Proverb. |
| Progress |
"Never give a command in a sitting position unless you are on top of a horse or a tank." - General Patton |
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
"The further back we look the further ahead we will see." - Winston Churchill |
"If you're explaining, you're loosing." - JC Watts |
| "Persistance
under difficulty will win advantage." |
| "Even
if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers |
| "Sacred
cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain |
| "Lazlo's
Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic
your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less."
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| "Optimist:
Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled" - Mark Twain |
| "Name
the greatest of all the inventors: Accident" - Mark Twain |
| "Human
beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience
of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See |
| "There
were plenty of times on a 5 minute bomb run I prayed I was 6 minutes older"
- Marauder Pilot Jack Dean |
| "We're
not out to beat the system we're out to run the system." |
| "History
is better than prophecy. In fact history is prophecy. And history says that
wherever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened
people want, it must be yielded up peaceably." - Mark Twain |
| "Some
mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
- Emo Phillips |
| Friendly Banter |
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| "If you understand everything, you must be misinformed." - Japanese Proverb |
| "I
don't mind lying but I deplore inaccuracy." - Samuel Butler 1835-1902
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| Once
at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir,
that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli
replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles
or your mistress." |
| "You
make me realize that happiness is a belt-fed weapon ." |
| "Remember
that a kick in the ass is a step forward." |
| "I
am not surrounded, I'm in a target rich environment." |
| "A
true gentlemen is a person who never gives offence unintentionally" |
| "Drawing
upon my vast command of the English language, I said nothing." - Mark
Twain |
| Friends |
"I would rather be insulted by you, than someone I respect." |
| "Friends
come and go, enemies accumulate." |
| "
So you have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill |
| Computing |
"Once it works. It has no value." - A Hacker |
| "Fast,
Cheap, Secure - Pick two." |
| "There
are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number
of users want fixed." -Bill
Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, Focus Magazine, Oct 23, 1995. |
| "The
most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language
will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good
name and now I am looking for a suitable language." - D. E. Knuth,
1967 |
| Other |
| "WITHOUT
CENSORSHIP, THINGS CAN GET TERRIBLY CONFUSED IN THE PUBLIC MIND".-
General William Westmoreland, during the war in Vietnam. |
| "A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire |