Us old buzzards can spot a dying mouse from 10,000 feet up. Us old buzzards have the sharpest eyes in creation. Right now I'm studying the terrain.
—Senator Seabright Cooley (played by Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent)
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Monday, August 04, 2014
Monday, July 29, 2013
Post #1306
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
—Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
—Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Monday, April 08, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Post #1188
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
—Sir Archibald Wavell
—Sir Archibald Wavell
Monday, November 19, 2012
Post #1115
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
—Horace Walpole
—Horace Walpole
Monday, October 29, 2012
Post #1097
The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
—Jules Renard
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- Dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · Never Schooled Yet Learned