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     I have devoted great effort to find the original circumstance & author of all these sayings.  The list includes real people such as Jesus Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Other Instructors, and me.  It also includes TV & Hollywood characters such as Homer J. Simpson, Han Solo, and Dirty Harry.  If you have one that is useful, and that I can confirm, e-mail the quote & source info to me and I'll take a look.

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0 - 0 - How does it feel to be the candidate that got millions of anti-Christians, felons, criminals, gangsta-rappers, illegals, socialists, communists, anarchists and the other immoral scum of the earth to not only vote for the first time, but to vote for you?  Now, how do you feel, as a human being, to be listed among those voters that supported him?  -Edward Wilks

0 - Don’t argue with success. -Edward Wilks

0 - Don't argue with me.  Especially when you are wrong!  -Edward Wilks

0 - Don't make them listen.  Make them answer.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Everything done with real intent. -Edward Wilks

0 - For every purpose, a proper application. -Edward Wilks

0 - Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.  Give a man a poisoned fish, and he'll never bother you again.  -Edward Wilks

0 - He with the most bullets generally wins. -Edward Wilks

0 - I have an average reactionary time of 0.158 of a second.  What's yours?  -Edward Wilks

0 - If at first you don’t succeed, quit, run away, or try something else!  -Edward Wilks

0 - Jedi Mind Tricks only work in the movies. -Edward Wilks

0 - Just because I say it, doesn't mean its true.  But just because you disagree, doesn't mean it isn't.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Know the capabilities of you and your equipment, then don't exceed them. -Edward Wilks

0 - Less hooting, more shooting! -Edward Wilks

0 - Live what you know; know all you can.  -Edward Wilks

0 - My panic button is connected to my Glock!  -Edward Wilks

0 - Nothing screams "80's" or "gun" like a fanny pack.  -Edward Wilks

0 - One hundred volunteers do not equal the one man standing present, ready to help.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Peer Pressure does not drive me, but Pure Pressure does. -Edward Wilks

0 - Political good intentions empower bad men.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Priorities: Gun, light, phone, keys.  Annihilate, illuminate, communicate, evacuate.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Sheep are meant to be sheared.  Tigers are meant to be avoided.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Stop adopting the opinions of others and start developing your own!  -Edward Wilks

0 - The bad guy IS going to drop the weapon.  Either voluntarily, or involuntarily. -Edward Wilks

0 - The best way to do it, is the right way to do it.  -Edward Wilks

0 - The bomb-squad will respond to an empty cardboard box, if it's reported a certain way.  -Edward Wilks

0 - The bullets you place in your gun are less important than the placement of your gun's bullets.  -Edward Wilks

0 - The Japanese are known for their fighting.  The French are known for their pastries.  -Edward Wilks

0 - The more you listen to me, the smarter you'll get.  -Edward Wilks

0 - There are houses of worship and warships.  I enter both regularly.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Those who resist innovation are usually destroyed by those of us who do not.  -Edward Wilks

0 - To defend with the sword, one must carry the sword.  -Edward Wilks

0 - Under stress, our muscles duplicate their most experienced motion. -Edward Wilks

0 - We don't shoot to kill.  We shoot to live. -Edward Wilks

0 - We train not to react, but to respond. -Edward Wilks

0 - What experience do you have that qualifies you to speak with authority?  -Edward Wilks  (My "debate-ending" questions that silences inappropriately-opinionated people.)

0 - When the time for action arrives the time for preparation is over!  -Edward Wilks

0 - When you pick your battles, make sure they are big enough to matter, but small enough to win. -Edward Wilks

0 - When you’re not shooting, you’re breathing. -Edward Wilks

0 - You got good at doing it wrong.  -Edward Wilks

A bad workman blames his tools.  -Unknown

A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.  -Unknown

A change is as good as a rest.  -Unknown

A danger foreseen is half avoided.  -Unknown

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions.  -Unknown

A good conscience is the best divinity.  -Unknown

A good example is the best sermon.  -Unknown

A good tongue is a good weapon.  -Unknown

A gun is not a weapon.  It’s a tool, like a butcher knife or a harpoon, or uh, uh, an alligator. -Homer J. Simpson

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.  -Unknown

A helping hand is no farther than at the end of your sleeve.  -Unknown

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  -Unknown

A lack of knowledge of this area can lead to chaos and futile Sisyphusian work efforts.  -Anonymous grad school application

A man who has raised his fists, has run out of ideas.  -Unknown

A person who can smile when things go wrong has found someone to blame it on.  -Unknown

A positive pessimist is better than a negative optimist.  -Unknown

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.  -Unknown

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.  -Unknown

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.  -Joseph Stalin

A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.  -Unknown

A squirrel is just a rat with good PR.  -Unknown

Actions speak louder than words.  -Common Saying

Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.  -Unknown

After all is said and done, more is said than done.  -Unknown

After dark, all cats are leopards.  -Unknown

After victory, tighten your helmet cords.  -Old Samurai Adage

Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.  -Benjamin Franklin

All sunshine makes a desert.  -Unknown

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.  -Common Saying

An ant may well destroy a whole dam.  -Unknown

An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.  -Unknown

An idea is something you have, a ideology is something that has you.  -Morris Berman

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.  -Oscar Wilde

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.  -Konrad Adenauer

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.  -Benjamin Franklin

An old ox makes a straight furrow.  -Unknown

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.  -Unknown

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.  -Unknown

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.  -Dwight Eisenhower

Argue for your limitations, and they’re yours to keep. -Unknown

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.  -Unknown

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.  Proverbs 27:17

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.  -Benjamin Franklin

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.  -Unknown

Attack is the best form of defense.  -Unknown

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I will either find a way or make one)  -Hannibal

Average people make excuses; Great people make it happen.  -Unknown

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.  -Benjamin Franklin

Be fast to draw, slow to shoot. -Common Saying

Be who you are and say what you mean because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  -Dr. Seuss

Before you judge a person, walk a mile in their shoes.  That way, when they complain, you'll be a mile away, and, you'll have their shoes. -Common Saying

Beware of the man with one gun.  He probably knows how to use it.  -Common Saying

Bumper Sticker - Glock: Helping bad-guys make informed decisions.  -The Tradesmen

Bumper Sticker - The Tradesmen.  Putting guns into the hands of good guys, and fear into the hearts of bad guys.  -The Tradesmen

Bumper Sticker - Yesterday, I got a gun for my wife.  It's the best trade I ever made.  -Unknown

Click is the loneliest sound in the world. -Common Saying

Come with me to an NRA meeting, and if you still don’t think guns are great, we’ll argue some more. -Homer J. Simpson

Courage is not an absence of fear; it is action in the face of fear.  -Unknown

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.  Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.  Psalms 82:3-4 KJV

Democracy is two wolves and one lamb voting on what to have for lunch.  Liberty is an armed lamb contesting the vote.  -Benjamin Franklin (unverified)

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do, or do not. There is no try.  -Yoda, Jedi Master

Don’t argue with success. -Edward Wilks

Don’t dry-fire into your crotch.  -Tai

Don't argue with me.  Especially when you are wrong!  -Edward Wilks

Don't make them listen.  Make them answer.  -Edward Wilks

Empty sacks will never stand upright.  -Unknown

Energy and persistence conquer all things.  -Benjamin Franklin

Eschew Obfuscation.  - Common Saying

Everything done with real intent. -Edward Wilks

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.  -Unknown

Everything I know about shooting I learned from Hollywood.  -Some of Edward's students.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.  -Unknown

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.  -Aldous Huxley

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.  -Wyatt Earp

Fast is fine, but accuracy is final.  -Unknown

For every purpose, a proper application. -Edward Wilks

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.  -John F. Kennedy

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.  -C.W. Ceran

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.  -Benjamin Franklin

Getting all your information from one source is plagiarism.  Getting it from many sources is research.  -Edward learned this at Glock School

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.  Give a man a poisoned fish, and he'll never bother you again.  -Edward Wilks

Hard work pays off.  But robbing the guy that works hard is easier.  -Unknown

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.  -Benjamin Franklin

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.  -Proverbs 16:32

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.  -Tom Connelly

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.  -Sir William Drummond

He with the most bullets generally wins. -Edward Wilks

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side. -Han Solo

Honesty without compassion is brutality.  -Unknown

How does it feel to be the candidate that got millions of anti-Christians, felons, criminals, gangsta-rappers, illegals, socialists, communists, anarchists and the other immoral scum of the earth to not only vote for the first time, but to vote for you?  Now, how do you feel, as a human being, to be listed among those voters that supported him?  -Edward Wilks

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, It is thinking of yourself less.  -Unknown

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.  -Gandhi

I believe in God even when He is silent.  -Found written on a cellar wall in Cologne after World War II

I don’t have to be careful, I’ve got a gun. -Homer J. Simpson

I have a Dremel, and I'm not afraid to use it.  -Old Joke

I have an average reactionary time of 0.158 of a second.  What's yours?  -Edward Wilks

I haven't been in a plane I couldn't fly.  But, I haven't been in a simulator that I haven't crashed.  -Edward's Flight Instructor and Student, Jim Risher

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.  -Chinese Proverb

I know he can get the job, but can he do the job.  -The movie "Joe Versus the Volcano"

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.  -Einstein

I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.  -Voltaire (unverified)

I reject your reality and substitute my own.  -Adam Savage, Mythbusters

I’d rather be judged by 12, than carried by 6. -Common Saying

I’m the only one in this room professional enough, that I know of, to carry this Glock 40.  I’m the only… *pow*   -D.E.A. Agent (Teaching Kids) shoots himself in foot

If at first you don’t succeed, quit, run away, or try something else!  -Edward Wilks

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.  -George S. Patton Jr.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. -Common Saying

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.  -George Orwell, 1945

If the grass is always greener... why build the fence?  -Unknown

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.  -Unknown

I'm only wearing black until they make something darker.  -Unknown

In chaos, there is opportunity.  -Carl Rove

Is gun.   Not supposed to be safe.  -One of Edward's Russian students at ESI (Executive Security International)

It could have been a real ugly situation, but, I managed to shoot him in the spine.  I guess the next place he robs better have a ramp!  -Moe Sizlack

It is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.  -Terry Pratchett

It is hard to be brave when you're only a very small animal.  -Piglet

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.  -Seneca

It is the privilege of the strong to be kind.  -Unknown

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it only takes 3 for proper trigger squeeze.  -Unknown

It takes a smart man to know he's dumb.  -Barney Rubble, from The Flintstones

It’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian. -Common Saying

It's not how hard you punch, but how hard of a punch you can take.  -Unknown

Jedi Mind Tricks only work in the movies. -Edward Wilks

Just because I say it, doesn't mean its true.  But just because you disagree, doesn't mean it isn't.  -Edward Wilks

Know the capabilities of you and your equipment, then don't exceed them. -Edward Wilks

Leave the gun.  Take the cannoli.  -1972 Film, The Godfather

Less hooting, more shooting! -Edward Wilks

Let them hate me so long as they fear me.  -Caligula

Life Is a sexually transmitted disease with a one hundred percent mortality rate.  -Greiveldinger Family Motto

Live what you know; know all you can.  -Edward Wilks

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.  -Tommy Lee Jones in the movie, U.S. Marshals

Love your enemies -- they hate that. -Unknown

Luck favors the backbone, not the wishbone.  -Unknown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  -Thomas Edison

Many people know how to say nothing; Few know when.  -Unknown

Many People see the path, but only a few choose to walk the path. -Common Saying

Master the fundamentals.  Execute them faster than your opponent.  -Common Saying

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.  -George S. Patton

Mediocrity is not in fashion, excellence is the order of the day.  -Thomas S. Monson

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth; Deal with it!  -Unknown

Metaphors be with you.  -Unknown

Motivation is what gets you started; Habit is what keeps you going.  -Unknown

My panic button is connected to my Glock!  -Edward Wilks

Never cut what you can untie.  -Joseph Joubert

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that has.  -Margaret Meade

Never hit a man with glasses.  Hit him with something heavier, like a stick or a rock instead.  -Unknown

Never mistake activity for achievement.  -John Wooden

Never pick a fight with an old man.  If he's too old to fight, he'll just shoot you.  -Unknown

No (one) ever won a war by dying for his country.  He won it by making the other (guy) die for his country.  -General George S. Patton

No man is free who cannot command himself.  -Pythagoras

No matter how far you've gone on a wrong road, turn back.  -Turkish proverb

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.  -Eleanor Roosevelt

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.  -Edmund Burke

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.  -Chinese Proverb

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight. -Wyatt Earp

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.  -Benjamin Franklin

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party, than being there.  -Franklin P. Jones

Nothing screams "80's" or "gun" like a fanny pack.  -Edward Wilks

Old age and treachery always prevail over youth and exuberance.  -Unknown

One cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.  -Indira Gandhi

One hundred volunteers do not equal the one man standing present, ready to help.  -Edward Wilks

One man's magic is another man's science, and a third's religion.  -Unknown

One of the best martial arts is Cha Ching Pow.  -Common Saying

Only two people in history have offered to die for you.  Jesus Christ, and US Soldiers.  One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.  -Unknown

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.  -Nelson Mandela

Peer Pressure does not drive me, but Pure Pressure does. -Edward Wilks

People that are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.  -Unknown

Plan For the Worst, Hope For the Best  -Tai's tattoo

Political good intentions empower bad men.  -Edward Wilks

Priorities: Gun, light, phone, keys.  Annihilate, illuminate, communicate, evacuate.  -Edward Wilks

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.  -One of my fortune cookies

Relaxed muscles respond better than tense muscles. -Common Saying

Reload when you want to, NOT when you have to. -Common Saying

Review carefully to see if you anything out.  -Common Saying

Rules for a Gunfight: 1.  Bring a gun, preferably, two guns.  2.  Bring all of your friends who have guns.  -Unknown

Saying you are a warrior because you own a gun, is like saying you are a musician because you own a guitar.  -Common Saying

Sheep are meant to be sheared.  Tigers are meant to be avoided.  -Edward Wilks

Show me who your with, and I'll show you what you are.  -Unknown

Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.  -Unknown

Somehow, "I told you so" just doesn't quite say it!  -Will Smith, in the movie, iRobot

Someone always know more. -Mr. Miagi

Sometimes the hand that holds you is the hand that holds you down.  -Unknown

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.  -Unknown

Stop adopting the opinions of others and start developing your own!  -Edward Wilks

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.  -Unknown

Tell a man there are 500 Quadrillion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him the bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.  -Unknown

That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger.  -Nietzsche

The acorn does not become the oak overnight.  -Unknown

The bad guy IS going to drop the weapon.  Either voluntarily, or involuntarily. -Edward Wilks

The best way to do it, is the right way to do it.  -Edward Wilks

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.  -Linus Pauling

The bomb-squad will respond to an empty cardboard box, if it's reported a certain way.  -Edward Wilks

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.  -Thucydides

The bullets you place in your gun are less important than the placement of your gun's bullets.  -Edward Wilks

The fastest way to end a war is to lose it.  -George Orwell

The final weapon is the brain.  All else is supplemental.  -Unknown

The greatest of all faults, is to be conscious of none.  -Thomas Carlyle

The Japanese are known for their fighting.  The French are known for their pastries.  -Edward Wilks

The lion, while hunting, does not roar. -Some fortune cookie I got last week.

The media is the antagonist the truth.  -Tai Chaney

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.  -Mahatma Gandhi

The more you listen to me, the smarter you'll get.  -Edward Wilks

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  -Edmund Burke

The purpose of fighting is to win.  -Unknown

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him as the destroyer of liberty.  -Abraham Lincoln

The sword is more important than the shield, but skill is more important than either.  -Unknown

The true definition of a handgun is “The thing I use to shoot my way back to a ‘real’ gun. -Common Saying

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand Russell

Then said he unto them … (take purse & scrip) … and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.  -Jesus Christ, Luke 22:36

There are houses of worship and warships.  I enter both regularly.  -Edward Wilks

There are two reasons why a person does something.  The reason that sounds good, and the real reason.  -Unknown

There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.  -Jesus Christ

There’s nothing wrong with shootings, as long as the right people get shot. -Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  -Abraham Lincoln

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.  -Mark Twain

Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.  -Thomas Jefferson

Those who resist innovation are usually destroyed by those who do not.  -Edward Wilks

Three men may keep a secret--provided two of them are dead.  -Benjamin Franklin

To defend with the sword, one must carry the sword.  -Edward Wilks

Tools do not equal Talent.  -Unknown

Under stress, our muscles duplicate their most experienced motion. -Edward Wilks

Victory is what happens when ten thousand hours of training meet up with one moment of opportunity.  -Unknown

We don't shoot to kill.  We shoot to live. -Edward Wilks

We must support friends even in their mistakes; however, it must be the friend and not the mistake we are supporting.  -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.  -George Orwell

We train not to react, but to respond. -Edward Wilks

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.  -Unknown

What experience do you have that qualifies you to speak with authority?  -Edward Wilks  (My "debate-ending" questions that silences inappropriately-opinionated people.)

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.  -Robert F. Kennedy

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us.  -Unknown

What you think is a walk in the park usually turns out to be a jog in the dark.  -James F. White

When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.  -Unknown

When the time for action arrives the time for preparation is over!  -Edward Wilks

When will people realize that violence can also be used for good?  -Unknown

When you pick your battles, make sure they are big enough to matter, but small enough to win. -Edward Wilks

When you’re not shooting, you’re breathing. -Edward Wilks

Where progress is measured, progress improves. -Thomas S. Monson

Why bother learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?  -Unknown

Why spend $2.00 to dry clean a shirt?  Donate it to Salvation Army.  They'll clean it and put it on a hanger, and you can buy it back for fifty cents.  -Unknown

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.  -Plato

You can afford to be an optimist.  I can't.  -Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

You can never shoot fast enough, to make up for missing your first shot. -Common Teaching Saying

You can’t make the butterflies in your stomach go away, but you can make them fly in formation.  -Tony Pagni

You cannot be so afraid of failure that you don't attempt to succeed.  -David LeGrant

You can't solve you're problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems.  -Albert Einstein

You don’t have to outrun the bear, just the guy hiking next to you.  -Old Joke

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. -C.S. Lewis

You got good at doing it wrong.  -Edward Wilks

You might be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try.  -Ben Franklin

You must unlearn what you have learned.  -Yoda, Jedi Master

You never have trouble if you are prepared for it.  -Theodore Roosevelt

You thought you were hot snot on a silver platter, but you ain’t nothin’ but a cold booger on a paper plate!  -Old Joke

You’ll get further with a kind word and a gun, than you will with just a kind word.  -Unknown

 


Last Updated ( Nov 06, 2008 at 04:36 PM )