Glenn Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Many times we hear the zingers and think, "WOW I wish I had said that" or "What a great comment". Let us put those quotes that are, or will soon become, "classics" here so we can find them again. Tools do not make the blacksmith, the blacksmith makes the tools. Glenn If someone questions your standards, they are not high enough. Glenn You can gain experience without knowledge by doing. You can NOT gain experience by gaining knowledge. Frosty You can walk with a plastic leg, you can work with a plastic arm, you can hear with a plastic ear, but you can not see with a plastic eye. Jim (PPW) Wilson Make a list of all the body parts you can do without. It is your personal responsibility to protect the rest. Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azmike Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 "Close your eyes and tell me what you see" Always wear your safety glasses................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Don't touch the red end :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Blacksmithing is easy---You hold the cold end and hit the hot end and please get it right next time. A saying from an old friend in the MOB, (Mid Ohio Blacksmiths) Hit it where it's *hot* not where it's *not*! Thomas Don't look at it HIT IT! Jim Crowel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Leppo Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 GOD gave you two ears and one mouth - you should listen twice as much as talk. -Wilson (I think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 "Familiarity breeds contempt." George Frost to the kid (me) till I was so sick of hearing it I never forgot. "You have to respect it but you can't fear it." Dad again. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triw Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 A few saying I have heard and have some hanging in my shop are: "Think at the forge work at the anvil." unknown "Because I am a blacksmith." Frank Turley "There is a special place in hell for blacksmiths who beat on cold iron" Frank Turley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 "Measure twice, cut once" -- not sure where it came from, but my Dad always said it and it has stuck. -Colleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torin Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Black hot is still hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer3j Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Measuri, cutti, cursi. not original to me. I have one that perfectly addresses carelessness around things or people that can hurt you. I will do my best to "familyize" it. It is so good it is worth the risk. A friend coined it in the late sixties-early 70's- "If you Fool( or insert rhyming Anglo-Saxon 4 letter word as needed) with the duck, you get the bill." Late, Dean Vance Carlton, my hunting and fishing partner for thirty+ years- at 58 the heart attack came out of the blue- he and his MOM[quad bypass] were always after me to stop smoking and eschew more than one taste of red meat per week- hard for him as we stocked freezers and meat lockers with venison---" Well, Mike, I make an exception for venison and elk- naturally lean red meat."-- I really miss him. Waist high grass on rolling Iowa terrain, 45 degrees, late afternoon golden sun glowing all around us and those last three pheasants after my giant Golden Retriever, Moose, dropped them at our feet. Yeah, I miss him bad. Moose too.jet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveh Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 mess with the bull,you get the horn!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdwarner Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdwarner Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quenchcrack Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 " Whither soever thou goest, there thou shalt surely be!" In other words: "If you get to where it's at, and you still don't get it, well, there you are" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNeilson Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Boks law (Pres. of Harvard U 71-90)......"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYBOY Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 You have to take life by the throat, then sometimes you have to choke it until it spits up what you want! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalliferous Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 hit it like you mean it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triw Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 hdwarner said: better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt Even fools are thought to be wise when they keep silent; when they keep their mouths shut, they seem intelligent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike-hr Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: I don't know and I don't care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teejay Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 If you smell something Stupid burning ,let go of it its HOT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdwarner Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welder19 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 "I don't mind if your stupid, just keep it to yourself" J.W. Hyer welder19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacksmithtech Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 "Blacksmith's can make anything but money and fix anything except a broken heart" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chyancarrek Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 "For it's money they have . . . and peace they lack" (Field of Dreams) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Dean Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 "Experience is the best teacher....you just don't have to experience it to learn from it!" Something I always told my boys as they were growing up, to learn form other's mistakes. Don't know where I first heard it tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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