Quotes

"To do is to be." Descartes

"To be is to do." Voltaire

"Do be do be do." Frank Sinatra

"I felt like the butterfly that flew over all the pretty flowers and landed in the cowpile."
Eliza Suttle Dews (my great, great, grandma - after moving to Texas from Nashville, TN in a
covered wagon)

"We trained hard...but everytime we were beginning to form into teams, we would be
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
reorganizing...and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress
while producing inefficicency and demoralization." Petronius, 1st centry A.D.

"Dying ain't nothing - living's what's hard." Sug Dabney

"A good soldier does not worry. He knows that nothing happens until it actually happens
and you live your life up until then. Danger only exists at the moment of danger. To live
properly in a war, the individual eliminates all such things as potential danger. Then, a
thing is only bad when it is bad. It is neither bad before nor after. Cowardice, as
distinguished from panic, is almost always simply the lack of ability to suspend the
functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely
in the very second of the present minute with no before and no after is the greatest gift a
soldier can acquire." Ernest Hemmingway

"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who at the dawn of
victory sat down to rest, and in resting, died." Anonymous

"Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda

"A possum in the pot is worth two that ain't." Granny (B.H.)

"I'm T-I-R-D, tird tired." Granny (mine)

"The sun never sets when you're cool." Neil

(Justifying his sunglasses as we stepped outside for a lunch-time run in D.C. on a VERY
overcast day.)

"Going far son?" Cowboy

"Right far." Clayboy

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to..." Hamlet

"Just let the pizza burn!" Withheld

"Ya ain't got sense enough t' holler soiee if'n the hogs was a eatin' ya." Festus