Share Your Current Top Two Go-To Quotes That Inform Your Choices

[THParent]

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.



General Douglas MacArthur

 

[THParent]

Always carry a knife, just in case there's cheesecake, or you need to stab someone in the throat.



James Mattis

 

[14mccpa]

“If you can't convince them, confuse them”
Harry S Truman

Always a favorite of mine

 

[TLINAU2230]

"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

 

[CGHopeful@]

Engraved on a sword. "Do not unsheath me without reason. Do not wield me without valor."

"Suddenly, you're ripped into being alive. And life is pain, life is suffering, life is horror, but my God you're alive and it's spectacular."

 

[nature boy]

Everybody ain't operating with the same information.

The real needs of the present should not be sacrificed for the hypothetical needs of the future.

 

[Wishful]

"Keep them all happy or all unhappy."-(paraphrasing) from a previous post on this forum.

 

[TBVADAD]

"What did I see in you?" - Wife

 

[THParent]

"Life gets harder every day and then you die"

- my father


(Not kidding)

 

[Old Enlisted Marine]

People raised on love see things differently than those raised on survival.

 

[QA1517]

Here's one I told my boys when they were growing up, it works in business too;

You don't have to like me, but you have to respect me.

 

[WT Door]

Many stationed in Naples have heard this one: Cà nessun è fesso! Neapolitan saying for “there are no suckers (or fools) here”. The actor uses the phrase when dealing with a difficult American investigator in Naples. I think of it silently when people try to pull the wool over my eyes.

 

[THParent]

A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm!

Every meal's a banquet!

Every paycheck a fortune!

Every formation a parade!

I LOVE THE CORPS !



Sgt. Apone
Aliens (1986)

 

[severn]

"But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes Duty - Honor - Country. Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be - of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. I bid you farewell."

*General MacArthur's farewell speech to West Point Cadets, 12 May 1962.