Tactical Texas

Leave the gun, take the cannoli. - The Godfather

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. - A.A. Milne

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

We break bones and we lose teeth. We play rugby. - Martin Johnson

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Life's failures are stepping stones to success. - Unknown

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. - H L Mencken

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Fox hunting is the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible. - Oscar Wilde

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'. - Ross Perot

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons. - Connie Brockway

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain

You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one. - Faydra D. Fields

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

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela

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

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

If you have a gun you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank you can rob everyone. - Unknown

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

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

When I take a gun in hand, the safest place for a pheasant is just opposite the muzzle. - Sydney Smith

A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? - John Gunther

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' - George W. Bush

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

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry

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

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

You reached into my soul and rearranged the position of my bones,
You rebuilt my rib cage so your heart could be home. - Unknown

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. - Les Brown

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius

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

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. - Ernest Hemingway

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