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 Christmas comes, but once a year is enough. - American Proverb A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. - Unknown Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. - Oscar Wilde Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. - Ruth Ann Schabacker Shooting Star: A famous actor who uses his gun too often - Daffynitions joe-ks.com A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun. - Unknown The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. - Marcelene Cox Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Joseph Addison I'm going to the North Pole to help out Santa this year. - Jimmy Fallon 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 A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. - Norman Cousins You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. - Al Capone Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller 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 If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown Like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone. - Malcolm Muggeridge I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence. - Unknown The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. - John Andrew Holmes They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? - Paul Harvey I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun. - Andy Dunn 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 Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump 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 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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