Favorite quotes

[SBMF 2015]

When you hear hoof beats think horses not zebras. - unknown

Never raise your hand to a kid or animal when your mad, it just don't help. -unknown

 

[504RP]

We are all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

Robert Duvall

 

[hurleyjd]

If he told you a hen dipped snuff you can bet the hen has her garret under neath her wing.
From a book that was published by a professor in east Texas about sayings around east Texas.

 

[littletom]

God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt

 

[Son of Butch]

Insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result. - Einstein

 

[TCRanch]

If the cows are standing, the fish are biting.

I have no clue if that's legit, but it's a common quote around here. We get calls/texts all the time, asking if the cows are standing, from friends that want to fish the watershed.

 

[hurleyjd]

If the cows are standing, the fish are biting.

I have no clue if that's legit, but it's a common quote around here. We get calls/texts all the time, asking if the cows are standing, from friends that want to fish the watershed.

More Colorful Texas Sayings Than You Can Shake a Stick At

Come hell or high water, you’ll want to read our compilation of down-home aphorisms.

www.texasmonthly.com

Lots of sayings in Texas Monthly and the one about fish biting and cows grazing is in there.

 

[gcreekrch]

He who has, must lose...

Fred Engebritson, son of the first white settlers here.

 

[Mississippimud]

This is SPARTA!!!! I don't know why but it always gives me energy

 

[Rafter S]

"On the days when I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, well, I have really good days."

Ray Wylie Hubbard

 

[TexasBred]

I'm just a beggar trying to show other beggars where I found bread.

 

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[Buck Randall]

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

- Isaac Asimov

 

[504RP]

Your never wrong to do the right thing.

Mark Twain

 

[Caustic Burno]

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

- Isaac Asimov

Well might as qoute Orwell both are science fiction writers.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Benjamin Franklin

 

[Dap]

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain

 

[Dusty Britches]

Our arrows will blot out the sun!
Then we will fight in the shade.

The day you stop learning is the day you die. -- My dad.
It sure is hard to think positive when you aren't sure. - a little girl hoping for a sunny day while the rain poured down. (me).
Many a slip between a cup and a lip. - Billy the Kid in Young Riders.

 

[D2Cat]

If wishes were fishes, we'd all have a fry.