
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
Author: Real Live Preacher
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
Author: Joseph Conrad
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer
Author: Og Mandino
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Author: Paula Poundstone
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
Author: William Hazlitt

A young naval student
was being put
through the paces by an old sea captain. "What would you
do if a sudden
storm sprang up on the starboard?" asked the captain.
"Throw out
an anchor, sir." replied the naval student.
"What would you do
if another storm sprang up aft?" asked the
captain.
"Throw
out another anchor, sir." answered the student.
"And if another
terrific storm sprang up forward, what would you do?"
asked the
captain.
"Throw out another anchor." replied the
student.
"Hold on," said the Captain. "Where are you getting all your anchors
from?"
The naval student replied, "From the same place you're
getting all of
your storms, sir."
This is the joke from a category: Military jokes
Having just moved
into his new office, a
pompous, new colonel was sitting at his desk
when a PFC knocked on
the door.
Conscious of his new position, the colonel quickly picked
up the phone,
told the PFC to enter, then said into the phone,
"Yes, General, I'll
be seeing him this afternoon and I'll pass along
your message. In the
meantime, thank you for your good wishes,
sir."
Feeling as though he had sufficiently impressedthe young enlisted
man,
he asked, "What do you want?"
"Nothing important, sir," the
PFC replied, "I'm just here to hook
up your telephone."
This is the joke from a category: Military jokes
The chief of staff of the US Air
Force
decided that he would personally intervene in the recruiting
crisis
affecting all of our armed services. He directed a nearby Air Force
base that will be opened and that all eligible young men and women be
invited.
As he and his staff were standing near a brand new
F-15 Fighter, a pair
of twin brothers who looked like they had just
stepped off a Marine
Corps recruiting poster walked up to them. The
chief of staff walked up to
them, stuck out his hand and introduced
himself.
He looked at the first young man and asked, "Son, what
skills can you
bring to the Air Force?"
The young man looks
at him and says, "I'm a pilot!"
The general gets all excited,
turns to his aide and says, "Get him in
today, all the paper work
done, everything, do it!"
The aide hustles the young man off.
The general looks at the second
young man and asked, "What s
kills to you bring to the Air Force?"
The young man says, "I
chop wood!"
"Son," the general replies, "we don't need wood
choppers in the Air
Force, what do you know how to do?"
"I
chop wood!"
"Young man," huffs the general, "you are not listening
to me, we
don't need wood choppers, this is the 20th century!"
"Well," the young man says, "you hired my brother!"
"Of
course we did," says the general, "he's a pilot!"
The young man
rolls his eyes and says, "So what! I have to chop it
before he can
pile it!"
This is the joke from a category: Military jokes
The first
woman recruit in the Army
reported for duty and was told that although her
quarters would be in a
separate building, she was to mess with the men.
It wasn't
until four weeks later someone finally told her that meant
to eat her
meals with them.
This is the joke from a category: Military jokes
Why did the
army send so many women with
PMS to the Persian Gulf?
They fought like animals and retained water
for 4 days.
This is the joke from a category: Military jokes