Ad published in a “Boys’ Life” magazine in 1966 for the Boy Scouts of America![]() The original ad (above) was for Daisy Rifles and featured several products (i.e. the Spittin’ Image line of air guns) that were not available until the 1960s. Therefore, the ad below could not have been published in a Sears catalog in the 1950s. ![]() Leave the gun, take the cannoli. - The Godfather The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley Christmas comes, but once a year is enough. - American Proverb Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. - Oscar Wilde I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. - Tammy Faye Bakker The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. - Ruth Ann Schabacker Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. - Robert Englund The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. - Marcelene Cox I'm going to the North Pole to help out Santa this year. - Jimmy Fallon Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. - W S Gilbert Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf Guns don't kill people. Dads with pretty daughters kill people. - Unknown Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. - Thomas Jefferson Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door. - Kyle Chandler If you have a gun you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank you can rob everyone. - Unknown True and solemn meaning of Christmas, which is a time for peace and quiet contemptation. - Archie Bunker It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. - Maya Angelou A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle One of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. - Soleil M Frye The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence. - Unknown No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. - Robert Kirby The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Carrie Snow 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 fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. - P G Wodehouse Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas. - Joseph Stalin I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher 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 I not only knew Houdini, but we had a very lovely relationship. I really though we had something going, and then the son of a gun disappeared. - Betty White see also Christmas, Family & Shopping Sections Anti-Gun Neighbour Common Sense Gun Posters for Americans Golf Gun Murder Gun Buy-Back Program Gun Leash Jumping The Gun Long Bore Gun Ordnance Table Round Table Texas Gun Lover |
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