Favorite Quotes

"Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls."
– Stirling Moss

"I never learned anything from hearing myself talk"

Robert Mitchum

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few people engage in it."
--- Henry Ford

One I tend to live by,

"If I got back all the money I've spent on cars, I'd spend it on cars".

I first heard it attributed to Nick Mason.

“I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” - Winston Churchill

“All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” - Also Winston Churchill

Dpc2u wrote

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”– Al McGuire

Man I lost it on this one.


The first step towards failure is trying. -Homer Simpson

The road of life is paved with idiots.

Prison changes a man, I used to be white! -(Naked Gun I think)

Brevity is the soul of wit.

"All that I am... I owe the Air Force"- General Chuck Yeager

"Take it easy, but do take it!"

WBAI radio announcer sign-off.

Murf

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.....

vreihen16 wrote

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.....

Definitely words to live by

vreihen16 wrote

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.....

Spot on.

Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

3798j wrote

"All that I am... I owe the Air Force"- General Chuck Yeager

RIP general yeager. breaking the sound barrier for all eternity.

highly recommend his autobiography. he was cut from a different cloth.

I don't have much of a life, but at least I live it - Jebo (former co-worker/nickname)

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

-HDT

Quite apropos these days...

"Emotion is often collateral damage to the grind of technological progress."

Jared Gall (C&D) on the 2020 Porsche 718 GT4

"Eh, F*ck this"

-Jody Raymond

Half the population has a two digit IQ.

-me.

"when you least expect it, expect it the most"

~mom

"You can get used to hanging."

Gramps

Life is on the tightrope, the rest is just waiting. ( Karl Wallenda )

Is a frog's ass watertight?