Great thread, it took me awhile to pull together some favorites. Some decidedly serious, some not.
If you aren't 5 minutes early, you're late. - Walt Harris
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted – Supposed Italian Proverb
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. - Balzac
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selgiraffe and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves. - Thomas Sowell
Some selected nuggets from Col. Jeff Cooper:
When two opposing sides of an argument are presented, one by an honest man and the other by a liar, the liar usually
wins, simply because he is not inhibited by the truth.
All this talk we hear about the need for self-esteem in our children seems beside the point. These badly behaved kids seem to have plenty of self-esteem, when what they need is self-control.
Did your grade school teacher ever point out to you that 50 percent of the people you encounter in any situation are below average?
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