Quotes and Sayings

My Dad's comment on a poorly finished job of work: "Measured with a micrometer, marked it with chalk and cut it with an axe."
 
My Grandfather was a wheelright and cabinet maker.
His most scathing comment regarding someones work was
"He couldnt make a rabbit hutch with leather hinges"
 
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze new problems, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
– Robert A. Heinlein
 
A SEAL sniper instructor, regarding teaching milliradian range finding to a new batch of students:
"Like a bunch of hogs, staring at a pocket watch."
 
Here's one saying that my Dad still uses whenever me or my brothers use any of his tools, from a pocket knife to a chain saw:

Don't get any blood on it!

I enjoy it for it's subtlety; it's phrased like concern for his equipment, but is really a non-naggin way to say "don't hurt yourself".
I found myself saying it two weeks ago when I handed my pocket knife to our co-op student at work.

-brino
 
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