Tactical Texas

The nail that sticks up gets hammered down. - Japanese Proverb

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. - Elon Musk

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? - Mae West

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept. - T.E. Hulme

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. - Unknown

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' - Kinky Friedman

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. - George Carlin

We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas. - Red Skelton

It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones. - Anthony Liccione

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. - Omar N. Bradley

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. - Franklin D Roosevelt

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone

It is much easier to imagine ghastly new biological weapons than to create them. - Andrew Pollack

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? - Kinky Friedman

I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. - Ann Richards

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. - Malcolm McDowell

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. - Robin Wright

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it. - Groucho Marx

I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there. - Aden Young

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. - Eric Idle

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the assault weapons of the First Amendment. - Charlton Heston

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

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. - Simon Wiesenthal

How we think about life's hard knocks can actually determine their impact on us more than the events themselves. - David Hazard

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. - Sam Mussabini

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. - William Stewart Halsted

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. - Irving R. Kaufman

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. - Andre Gide

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is not more a science than a heap of stones is a house. - Jules Poincare

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single. - Tiny Tim

Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath;
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways. - Ogden Nash

I don't know him very well... I've played him at golf and beat him badly both times, and I think that probably had a negative impact on him. - Donald Trump