Best quotes thread

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best!!!!!!

Marilyn Monroe
 
Indulge an old Marine, but here are a couple from Chesty Puller.

"Take me to the Brig. I want to see the 'real Marines'."
While on a Battalion inspection.

"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
 
I may be be off a little because I'm going on memory:

" honor to the soldier and Sailor everywhere who bravely bears his country's cause honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves as best he can that same cause" -A. Lincoln
 
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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself”


"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
"

"Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged."

-Seneca the Younger
 
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