quotes from an 1811
Posted by John on August 15th, 2009
Stolen roses, from another friend out on FaceBook. As always no one has to agree, but there are always points to consider . . .
USMC 1811 - For Honorable service
Without tools, man is nothing; with tools he is all.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
-Samuel Adams
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.
- Orison Swett Marden
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
-Benjamin Franklin
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If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
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“It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we must do what is required.”
-Sir Winston Churchill
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
