From a smithing friend of mine:

"You hold the cold end and hit the hot end---Get it *right* next time!"

and from another

"Anything will burn if you get it hot enough"

Thomas

if they wont wait theyre not worth hurrying for.

If it aint sharp it's a hammer
job

"Lack Of Planning On Your Part, Does Not Constitute An Emergency On My Part!"

"Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance"

"Fear not the Cloudy Sky, Only the storm that follows"

Sign on shop door: "Work done good, fast, cheap. Pick two!"

Getting Quality Work, Is like buying oats!
If you want nice, clean oats, you must pay a fair price;
however if you can be satisfied with oats that have been through the horse - THAT COMES A LITTLE CHEAPER !!

If you feel blue,... Start breathing again.

Saw this sign in a metalshop.

New employee incentive plan:
Do your job or be fired!

Shop Rates:
Labor...............................$25 per hour
If you worked on it first.......$50 per hour
If you want to help.............$100 per hour

System Analysis is the process of finding exactly the right wrench to pound in the required screw.

I'd rather be a "maybe" if I cannot be an "are";
For a "maybe" is a "can be" with a chance of reaching par.
I'd rather be a "has been" than a "might have been" by far;
For a "might have been" has never been,
But a "has been" was an "are".

Winners make things happen~losers let things happen.

" Idle hands and busy tongue
Do not pay for Egg Fu Yong "

Pain is your bodies way of telling the brain it has done something stupid.

I never make mistakes, only alterations in design. :)

Lose some weight... then try to find it again :D

If at first you don't succeed, try try try try again(I can't beleive this one isn't on here yet!).

speaking of 'carpe', I like Carpe Malleus

If at first you don't succeed, try try try try again(I can't beleive this one isn't on here yet!).

I thought that was

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried and if you can't do that blame someone else.



ron

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I think that was the Marx brothers.

Michael

The little known 11th commandment:
Though shalt not sit on the good parlor couch in thine workclothes in thine wife's sight, lest though be stricken with pain and suffering greater than that caused by the ram and springs flailing loose of thine trip hammer.

If it ain't broke, tear it apart so you can figure out how the broken one should work!

The best advice I ever got was when coming home from a job out of town I asked why everybody was calling home to tell their wives they were coming home. My foreman said, "we'd rather not surprise our wives and her boyfriend. Sometimes it's best to not know everything."

Fred

When everything's coming your way, maybe you're in the wrong lane!
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Always remember, There are three sides to any argument or problem:
Your side, My side and what Realy happened.

(Old German Blacksmith saying): If you want to think, go be a priest! Now hit the iron before it get's cold!
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(Another one): Stand up and take your face away from the iron, no matter how close you look, you won't find more heat.
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Now don't forget...........I should have wrote that down.

If it doesn't smell good, it probably won't taste good.

4WD is only to get you further into the woods before you get stuck.