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Roguish Lawyer
12-02-2021, 20:29
I'll start with what I told myself today: "expired chew is better than no chew."
:munchin
Quartz_MJC
12-03-2021, 08:03
Intelligence is knowing what an electrical socket is. Wisdom is not sticking your dick in it.
Intelligence is also knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is understanding why tomato is not an ingredient in fruit salad.
Also...
The "proof is in the pudding" is not the correct way of using the trope...
"The proof of the pudding is in the tasting" suggests that the only way to demonstrate the value, success, or effectiveness of a product or process is by putting it to the test regardless of any outward appearance or promise.
Someone that tells you "we have to sign this legislation to know whats in it"
...does NOT want you to taste the pudding.
Don't chase the Indians if they just stole the gatling gun.
If you look around the table and can't figure out who the rube is.....it's you.
Tracers work both ways.
G2squared
12-03-2021, 21:54
Friendly fire isn’t.
The only time you have too much fuel in an airplane is when it’s on fire.
The Reaper
12-03-2021, 22:37
The only time you can have too much ammunition is when you are on fire, or trying to swim.
TR
sfshooter
12-04-2021, 01:45
If...is the middle word in life.
(1VB)compforce
12-04-2021, 04:48
"Whenever you make something idiot-proof Nature builds a better idiot" - Me
"argue for your limitations, and sure enough...they're yours." Richard Bach
Never fry bacon naked
"God provided the stones, but David had to pick them up."
GratefulCitizen
12-04-2021, 14:44
Intelligence finds the right answer.
Wisdom asks the right question.
Roguish Lawyer
12-04-2021, 15:53
The only time you can have too much ammunition is when you are on fire, or trying to swim.
TR
LOL, I was going to post this and attribute it to you, although the fire part is new . . . :)
Two is one and one is none. ~thanks to TR for these words of wisdom
twistedsquid
12-05-2021, 10:53
"Nicknames and humility and rarely self applied." MWS
“Better to be pissed-off than pissed on”
I heard something on the radio the other day as it applied to entrepreneurs/creative people and I think it works for other things as well, "You either win, or you learn." God knows I have learned far more by fucking up than I have by getting it right.
x/S
1stindoor
12-06-2021, 07:55
The definition of failure is when your best isn't good enough.
Surf n Turf
12-06-2021, 21:32
Never take investment advice from somebody living in a singlewide.”
Statistics show that criminals commit less crime after they’ve been shot
The smartest of a large number of hamsters is still a hamster
I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I’m in the frigging drawer.
Said by one of my buddies after the 4th Infantry laid waste to Mosul (?) in the early days of the war: "It's hard to be a terrorist when you're on fire."
twistedsquid
12-07-2021, 09:11
Never refer anyone you can't fire or punch in the mouth.
Your only as good as your last plate. Doesn't matter how many times you accomplished the goal, the only memory is your last mistake.
Old Dog New Trick
12-07-2021, 22:39
Military Intelligence and Military Counter-Intelligence are the same thing, only applied by different users of the same information. Both can be right or wrong.
The dullest knife in the drawer can still kill you !
"Have a good evasion plan or you will be slurping mud puddles" -me
Old Dog New Trick
12-08-2021, 06:48
A broken clock is right at least once, if not twice a day.
If it looks like a good place for an ambush - it is.
Out of all the places I've been....this is one of'em...
Man of the world...lost in a cubicle..
rsdengler
12-08-2021, 12:19
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun"
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life"
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun"
How very true.
Some think obedience is virtuous - others think it is cowardly
mlawacko
12-08-2021, 18:06
Respect is earned not given. 1st Sgt Shadrick Brown "Super Soldier"
bandycpa
12-21-2021, 09:12
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut."
Old Dog New Trick
12-21-2021, 10:12
“You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink… you can beat a dead horse all day long and you’ll just be tired.”
WarriorDiplomat
12-21-2021, 15:59
A shitbag on your team is like a 200lb rucksack- Me
Having Lesko Brandon on your team is like losing three good men.
The difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is about 2 weeks.
Golf1echo
12-22-2021, 18:55
Close enough, for government work.
On the Southern side, these don’t always mean what some might think:
After the “War of Northern Aggression “ they couldn’t say what they wanted at times
That curve is so tight you’ll meet yourself coming around the back.
You can’t get there from here.
Y’all ain’t from around here. - or in my neck of the woods-
Usins ait from cheer
Bless your little heart...
Saw this the other day and it is a great example and explanation.
If a Southern woman asks you “ What did you say? She is not asking you to repeat yourself. She is asking you if you are right with Jesus because your about to meet him...
From my Grandfather
Success * is spelled WORK
* or luck
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Keep your words soft and sweet because you never know, someday which ones you may have to eat.
In the land of the blind the man with one eye is king.
twistedsquid
12-23-2021, 22:22
Don't step over a dollar to pick up a dime.