Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it.
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OLD SAYING A leap year
Is never a good sheep year.
OLD SAYING There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends
forsake us.
OLD SAYING As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy
months will you have.
OLD SAYING Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.]
OLD SAYING Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us
and ours.
And when we and ours ...
OLD SAYING Here's a health to all those that we love,
Here's a health to all those that love us,
Here's a...
OLD SAYING It's an important service we provide to Sailors and Marines who otherwise may have no way to the gro...
LUIS MARTINEZ As our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines defend the nation, ... they must know that their countr...
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BRUCE GOMBAR Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.
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BLAISE PASCAL Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this...
LANE EVANS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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HUGH SHELTON We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting...
GARY F EVANS... It's one of the new services we try to tell Marines and their families about before they're deployed...
LAURIE CURTIN Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're ...
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
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KURT VONNEGUT As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The American people should not wonder where their military leaders draw the line between military ad...
MARTIN DEMPSEY Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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MAX BAUCUS And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON The wind that blows, the ship that goes
And the lass the loves a sailor.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING One’s own shit doesn’t smell
OLD RUSSIAN SAYING Here's to you, as good as you are,
And here's to me, as bad as I am;
But as good as you are, a...
OLD SCOTCH SAYING May your glass be ever full
May the roof over your head be always strong,
And may you be in he...
OLD IRISH SAYING May all your labors be in vein.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING Olivia. Your marriage wont last. Tell Noah the truth; be fair. when you do, come find me, and ill gi...
TARRYN FISHER Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you don't believe in 5 seconds then you wont in 5 minutes.
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DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
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JANE ROSER Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this coun...
ALLEN WEST A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
RUDYARD KIPLING After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved tha...
DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell thei...
ERIN GRUWELL If you tell an 11-year-old something on a constant basis every day, every day, eventually you're goi...
CAROL WILLIAMS There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
IAIN BANKS There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
PEACE PILGRIM There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not
the hated.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
BOB DYLAN There's a reason that they're saying Kerry is the No. 1 liberal in the Senate, it's because he is th...
MICHAEL MOORE Right--that will do for the marines.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that "nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor," so I though...
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WILEY CASH We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will ...
JOHN ABIZAID That is why you fail. (in response to Luke saying, "I don't
believe it.").
YODA I hate it when people try to tell me that they are right by saying that I am young. So why don't you...
TARY C. The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
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FENNEL HUDSON People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."
"Shouldn'...
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DADA BHAGWAN We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe i...
DALLAS WILLARD I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
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LAUREL PRIEB Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.
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More Old Saying
It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is
the space between the bars that hol...
OLD SAYING A leap year
Is never a good sheep year.
OLD SAYING There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends
forsake us.
OLD SAYING As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy
months will you have.
OLD SAYING Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.]
OLD SAYING Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us
and ours.
And when we and ours ...
OLD SAYING Here's a health to all those that we love,
Here's a health to all those that love us,
Here's a...
OLD SAYING The wind that blows, the ship that goes
And the lass the loves a sailor.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING One’s own shit doesn’t smell
OLD RUSSIAN SAYING Here's to you, as good as you are,
And here's to me, as bad as I am;
But as good as you are, a...
OLD SCOTCH SAYING May your glass be ever full
May the roof over your head be always strong,
And may you be in he...
OLD IRISH SAYING May all your labors be in vein.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING They that envy others are their inferiors.
SAYING Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
NAVAHO SAYING Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
FRENCH SAYING The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.
ZEN SAYING He who feels no compassion will become insane.
HASIDIC SAYING When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world...
INDIAN SAYING When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you.
TAO SAYING Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you u...
ZEN SAYING Anger is only one letter short of danger
POPULAR SAYING The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
HASIDIC SAYING Hide your body in the Big Dipper.
ZEN SAYING Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.
ZEN SAYING Better to see the face than to hear the name.
ZEN SAYING Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky...
OJIBWA SAYING Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
RABBINICAL SAYING Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
HASIDIC SAYING To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
HASIDIC SAYING Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all h...
HASIDIC SAYING The more you know, the less you need.
ABORIGINAL SAYING From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord...
SCOTTISH SAYING Knock on the sky and listen to the sound
ZEN SAYING A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
SIOUX SAYING The axe soon forgets, but the tree always remembers.
SHONA SAYING Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.
TAO SAYING It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.
TAO SAYING Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.
TAO SAYING Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something
might be planted, a seed, from the...
TAO SAYING What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.
TAO SAYING We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Th...
TAO SAYING We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
TAO SAYING The journey is the reward.
TAO SAYING in motion be like water...
at rest, like a mirror.
resound like the echo;
be subtle, as though
none...
TAO SAYING What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
OLD EPITAPH When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.
OLD RHYME If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way
No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.
OLD RHYME I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger...
OLD SONG This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.
[Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;...
OLD SONG A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherd's warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shephe...
OLD RHYME There's a skin without and a skin within,
A covering skin and a lining skin,
But the skin with...
OLD SONG When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on,
He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.
"With t...
OLD SONG Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
OLD TESTAMENT Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all
evils.
[Lat., Gula plures occidit q...
OLD SONG The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not qu...
OLD SONG In good King Charles's golden days
When royalty no harm meant,
A zealous high-churchman was I,...
OLD SONG Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'...
OLD SONG When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
OLD SONG Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old blue ...
OLD SONG As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested
in adversity.
OLD SONG Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
OLD SONG An injury may prove a blessing.
OLD SONG Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
OLD SONG A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man
sickens.
OLD SONG A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
OLD SONG A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
OLD SONG A credulous thing is love.
OLD SONG A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
OLD SONG A bitter drug oft brings relief.
OLD SONG Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
OLD SONG St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France.
Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
OLD SONG A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
OLD SONG Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
OLD SONG A wicked book cannot repent.
OLD PROVERB One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guar...
JEWISH FOLK SAYING Truth is heavy, so few men carry it.
JEWISH FOLK SAYING Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
JEWISH FOLK SAYING We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
HAIDA INDIAN SAYING Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.
OLD ENGLISH WRITING The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out infriendship, never in want.
OLD IRISH TOAST May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell
OLD IRISH TOAST He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
OLD ENGLISH RHYME Here's to a long life, and a merry one; a quick death, and an easy one; a pretty girl, and an honest...
OLD IRISH TOAST Insanity is doing the same thing in thesame way & expecting a different outcome
OLD CHINESE PROVERB A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step
OLD CHINESE PROVERB A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
OLD CHINESE PROVERB When money's tight and hard to get - and your horse is also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt...
OLD IRISH TOAST In speaking of so-called Christians being in church: "Just because a mouse gets in a cookie jar, doe...
OLD SOUTHERN WISDOM An Irishman is never drunk as long as - He can hold onto one blade of grass and not - Fall off the f...
OLD IRISH TOAST In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in
friendship, never in want.
OLD IRISH TOAST They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk.
SAYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN An empty wagon makes the most noise.
SAYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN Music describes that which cannot be said, upon which it is impossible to be silent.
SAYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN Tell me and I'll listen. Show me and I'll understand. Involve me and I'll learn.
TETON LAKOTA INDIAN SAYING Where is the flower which blooms without getting soaked in the rain and where is the flower that blo...
SAYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN When the Sun comes up a Lion awakens he knows that he must outrun the slowest Gazelle or he will sta...
AN OLD AFRICAN PROVERB Wintry it ain't- no complaints! Snowier: Storefronts are showier, light displays glowier. Shoppers a...
THE OLD FARMER'S ALAMANAC Lesson learned from personal experience:
Don't sleep under the stars if there are none!
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JUDAH ISAIAH CALEB KING MILNE (10 YEARS OLD) The unlimited power of taxation will
give them the command of all the treasures of the continen...
AN OLD WHIG GEORGE BRYAN JOHN SMILIE AND JAMES HUTCHINSON Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to ...
, VLOGBROTHERS, DUMPING MY 15-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND, 09-24-13 In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap real...
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-AYUSHEE GHOSHAL, 4 AM CONVERSATIONS WITH THE GHOSTS OF OLD LOVERS I don't want to be charged with child abuse.
, SAYING HE DID NOT WANT TO GET INTO A WAR OF WORDS WITH VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE