No truer words ever spoken - words you live by?

[CaptainQuintero]

6 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

Only the insane, have strength enough to prosper. Only those that prosper, truly judge what is sane.

 

Every man is a spark in the darkness. By the time he is noticed, he is gone forever. A retinal after-image that is obscured by newer, brighter lights.

Jesus fuzz way to lighten the mood! 

[scap99]

Another great one.

 

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)  

[Habana Mike]

8 hours ago, BBS said:

A bit verbose, but believe it or not, this is from one of my all time favorite TV commercials spoken by a very funny guy, Bruce Campbell;

“If you have it you don’t need it. If you need it, you don’t have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don’t need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don’t already have any of it to begin with, you can’t get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can’t fake it. Wanting it. Needing it. Wishing for it. The point is… if you’ve never had any of it… ever… people just seem to know.”

Experience, money or pu$$y?

 

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, CaptainQuintero said:

Jesus fuzz way to lighten the mood! 

Lol! The first one was apt because everyone used to say to me, "Fuzz, you're bloody insane!". I always took that as a complement. It'll just be me and the roaches in the end!

The second I see as a lesson on self-importance.

[Sunsmoke]

Make Memories While You're Young, They Last Longer....

 

[Bohn007]

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

I don't say these things because I believe in the ‘brute' nature of men or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour -- his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear -- is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." -Vince Lombardi

[Ribeye]

Several favorites have already been mentioned above.  Here is one from the ancient philosopher Cicero (  3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC)  that is still spot on today. 

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

[BBS]

19 hours ago, Habana Mike said:

Experience, money or pu$$y?

 

Given the context of the commercial, I have always assumed it was in regards to experience.  However, it clearly applies to all three....;-)

[cigcars]

4 hours ago, Ribeye said:

Several favorites have already been mentioned above.  Here is one from the ancient philosopher Cicero (  3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC)  that is still spot on today. 

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

     *Makes me recall the saying of one 10th century Moslem conqueror: "Nothing exhales so sweet an odor as the dead body of an enemy - especially a traitor"