Quotes/Letters that I like

[Saniflush]

I am one that likes to attempt to learn life lessons from others through the wisdom of their quotes.  So that being what it is I am starting this thread to record them for ease of me finding them later on.  Feel free to add your own if you like.

This was the last thing Andrew Jackson's mother wrote to him before she died. He was only 14 at the time.

“Andrew, if I should not see you again, I wish you to remember and treasure up some things I have already said to you: in this world you will have to make your own way. To do that you must have friends. You can make friends by being honest, and you can keep them by being steadfast. You must keep in mind that friends worth having will in the long run expect as much from you as they give to you. To forget an obligation or be ungrateful for a kindness is a base crime — not merely a fault or a sin, but an actual crime. Men guilty of it sooner or later must suffer the penalty. In personal conduct be always polite but never obsequious. None will respect you more than you respect yourself. Avoid quarrels as long as you can without yielding to imposition. But sustain your manhood always. Never bring a suit in law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such outrages that can satisfy the feelings of a true man. Never wound the feelings of others. Never brook wanton outrage upon your own feelings. If you ever have to vindicate your feelings or defend your honor, do it calmly. If angry at first, wait until your wrath cools before you proceed.”

[Catphish Tilly]

We Comin.

     - Cameron Newton

[WiregrassTiger]

"fudge Bama."--W.T., 2013

[chinook]

lawyers that care ...Carey & Hamner

[Snaggletiger]

lawyers that care ...Carey & Hamner

Truer words were never spoken. 

[Snaggletiger]

If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. It ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Sir Allen Iverson

[dallaswareagle]

If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. It ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Sir (broke ass) Allen Iverson

FTYF

[AU_Tiger_2000]

Sticking with basketball.....

"What do you think the Sixer's will do in the playoffs?"

"Fo Fo Fo" - Moses Malone (close, they actually took 5 games to win one of the series)

[chityeah]

"That's all this country needs. Is another out of work black man."

Sir Charles Barkley shortly after leaving the court of his last game.

[GH2001]

I really do have balls

- snags

[Vandy Vol]

"I wish I had more hands.  So I could give them titties four thumbs down!"

- Dave "Rick James" Chappelle

[DnATL]

"I got it!"  "No, I got it!"

Tray Matthews, Josh Harvey-Clemons

[GH2001]

All I want for Christmas is a big black cock under the mistle toe

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[DnATL]

All I want for Christmas is a big black cock under the mistle in my man-el toe

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misquoted

[dallaswareagle]

You cover the outside I'll tackle anything coming up the middle   Jake Holland

[GH2001]

misquoted

No he really said that last Saturday. We were discussing the upcoming holiday season and how it's all a waste of money. I just had no idea he meant that when he said the best gifts were free.

[Tiger Wench]

"Let me give you my vision: A man’s right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master.”

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

“We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.”

"I owe nothing to Women's Lib."

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

                                                                        ~~~ Baroness Margaret Thatcher

She was everything this daughter of the Eighties ever wanted to be.  My first true role model. Meeting her was one of the greatest moments of my life.  She and Reagan were the last of the great statesmen.

[WiregrassTiger]

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
                                                                                                           Yogi

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