Words of Wisdom
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(note: I found all these floating about cyber space, so am not certain of their validity.)
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Sure I believe in peace, peace through superior firepower.
-Scuz the ork merk
...When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains
however improbable, must be the truth...
- Sherlock Holmes
I suppose that you seldom think. Few people think more
than two or three times a year. I have made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every day in every place is an adventure. This you have not
yet learned. And so you chase down the distant roads, hoping to
satisfy the hunger for excitement that burns in your heart.
- Catti-Brie
We care less our lives be empty.
- Drizzit
The difficult we do today, the impossible is over in research &
development..
- An old Corporate saying
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those
which require the most thought.
- Pythagoras
The first rule of an intelligent species, is to save all the pieces.
We were young
Wondering the face of the earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth?
Learning that were only immortal for a limited time.......
- Rush
Stand up to be seen; speak up to be heard; shut up to
be appreciated.
- The Toastmaster's Manual
Nothing is impossible, only improbable.
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Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
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Every man dies, few men get to really live.
- BraveHeart (Mel Gibson)
Life is simply a matter of concentration: you are what you
set out to be. You are a composite of the things you say,
the books you read, the thoughts you think, the company you
keep, and the things you desire to become.
- B. C. Forbes
Uh-oh, Toto, it doesn't look like we're gods anymore...
- Dorthy to her faithful program frame
If we lose our wings flying too close to the sun
If the moment of glory is over before its begun
If the dream is won, when all else seems lost
Then we will pay the price, but we will not count the cost....
- Rush
Time is really the only capital that any human being has,
and the one thing that he can't afford to lose.
- Thomas Edison
"Crazy elf probably'll take on the whole lot of them by himself
And win
- Brueonor
I'm more afraid of being nothing, then I am of being hurt.
-Tom Cruise (Days of Thunder)
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
To know your enemy, you must become your enemy....
Keep your friends close and your enemys close
-Sun Tzu
Paradise is to believe in it.
- Catulle Mendese
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about it's
writer except his memory.
- Franklin P. Jones
I knew then and there that he would lead me into a situation in
which there would be no escape. But I had to admit the more I thought
about it the more I liked gambling beside the darkelf.
- Wulfgar
There is no security on this earth. There is only
opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
- Lolita (Shadowrun)
A rumor is about as hard to unspread as butter.
- Changing Times
Fear is a state of mind, as such it can be conquered by a stronger
state of mind.
-First teaching at the guild academy
Answers without evidence are useless.
-Sherlock Holmes
Where ever you go there you are
-Madmax
A team is where a boy can prove his courage, on what he
can do himself or on what he can contribute to the team's
good. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
- Mickey Mantle
Are you more trapped by the way the word sees ye, or by the way
you see the word seein ye.....
- Catti-brie
Prior, Proper, Planning, Prevents, Piss, Poor, Performance.
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Out of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
-An Anonymous Stanton Student
Time is
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grief,
To short for those for those who rejoice,
But for those who love, time is,
Eternity,
Hours fly, Love dies,
New days, New ways,
Pass by, Love Stays,
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Improvisation is the key to success.
-An anonmous street thief
Savor each day as if it were your last, one day it will be.
-An old warrior
Somebody figured it out - we have 35 million laws trying
to enforce the Ten Commandments.
- Earl Wilson
All that I ask you to understand is that, as leader of my city,
I am forced at times to act for the overall good, no matter
what the cost to the individual.
- Alustrial
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much - those who
cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
- Cyrus H.K. Curtis
It is in changing that things find their purpose.
-Heraclitus
All children deal with agression, girls wield relationshisp as weapons,
while boys prefer to brandish water pistols..
-An anonymous Stanton Student
You are only young once. After that you have to think up
some other excuse.
- Billy Arthur
There are many sights in this world, dear dwarf, that can not
be seen from the shadows. Many sounds preferable to the ring of
steel, and many smells preferable to the stench of death....
- Drizzit
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation
of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a
dream. They are right. It is. It is the American dream.
- Archibald MacLeish
You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.
- Sign in Lyndon B. Johnson's office
when he was Senator
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
- Will Rogers
Faults are thick where love is thin. - Danish proverb
It is easier for a father to have children than for
children to have a real father.
- Pope John XXIII
It's not how old you are but how you are old.
- Marie Dressler
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one for
the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough
he might become disturbed.
- James Thurber
Everybody sees what you appears to be. Some realize what you are,
Few realize who you are.
-Daniel
No man is ever a failure until his wife thinks so.
- Minneapolis Journal
The gods of the realm are many and varied -or they are the many and
varied names and identities tagged onto the same being.
I know not- and care not which..
- Drizzit
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
The human individual lives usually far within his limits;
he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually
fails to use.
- William James
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Ingersoll
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate
is not socialism.
- Tennyson
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always
seems too short.
- Andre Maurois
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep...
And miles to go before I sleep......
- Robert Frost
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world
is to be in reality what we appear to be.
- Socrates
When a woman tells you her age, it's all right to look
surprised, but don't scowl.
- Wilson Mizner
Abstinance should be practiced in moderation.
- Dan Luft
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just
can't buzz any slower.
- Kin Hubbard
There are in the world two powers - the sword and the
spirit. The spirit has always vanguished the sword.
- Napoleon
Too many people don't care what happens so long as it
doesn't happen to them.
- William Howard Taft
I don't like yes men. I want you to tell me what you
really think - even if it costs you your job.
- Sam Goldwyn
There are only two places where socialism works - one is
a beehive and the other is an anthill.
- Sir Ian Stewart-Richardson
To love is to stop comparing. - Bernard Grasset
No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If
you treat Americans well, they will always want to treat
you better.
- Winston Churchill
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man
who will not.
- English proverb
It is impossible to make anything foolproof, since fools
are so ingenious.
- Murphy's Law
Anything good in life is either indecent, immoral, or fattening.
- Murphy's Law
Be ashamed to die until you have achieved some victory
for humanity.
- Horace Mann
What on earth would a man do with himself if something
did not stand in his way?
- H. G. Wells
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to aquire knowledge.
- Arnold H. Glasow
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but
the glory belongs to our ancestors.
- Plutarch
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a
"necessary evil," it begins to look more and more
necessary and less and less evil.
- Leo J. Farrell, Jr.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
- Jules Verne
Vote on the man who promises least; he'll be the
least disappointing.
- Bernard Baruch
Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object
lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
- George Bernard Shaw
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
- General Omar N. Bradley
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your
ears - by listening to them.
- Dean Rusk
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
- Scotch Proverb
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to
test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Books rule the world. - Voltaire
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
- E. W. Howe
The friends who are most stimulating to us are those who
disagree with us. It is they whose ideas we should ponder.
- Cornelia James Cannon
Ideas are funny little things. They won't work unless
you do.
- Columbia Record
I shall hear in Heaven. - Beethoven
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the
more they are frightened. The courageous man is the man who
forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.
- General George S. Patton Jr.
I'd rather lose in a cause that will one day win than
win in a cause that will someday lose.
- Woodrow Wilson
The reason we hate a liar is not his immorality, but his
gall in thinking we'd believe him.
- Charles P. Curtis
Hats off to the past; coats off to the future.
- American proverb
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude
and good company.
- Lord Byron
His mouth works faster than his brain - he says things he
hasn't thought of yet.
- Anonymous
History is written by the victor.
- A forgotten Latin Scholar
Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back.
- Coleman Cox
Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on
the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
- London Daily Express
Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.
- Lincoln Steffens
Pity the man who believes in communism - he believes in
something that doesn't believe in him.
- Fred McAlister
Nobody believes a rumor here until it's officially denied.
- Edward Cheyfitz, Washington D.C.
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for
guys with erasers.
- The Wall Street Journal
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take
rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor
suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that
knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Heard of it, Don't care, if you never really die, cholesterol can only
move me out of this world a little sooner.
- A Japanese Philosoper
To live in fear is not to live at all.
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With great power comes great responsibility.
- A wise old warrior
We can always live on less when we have more to live for.
- S. Stephen McKenney
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world
owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
A bank is the thing that will always lend you money if
you can prove that you don't need it.
- Joe E. Lewis
Russia abolished God, but so far God has been more tolerant.
- John Cameron Swayze
Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more
effective sign than "Keep off the grass."
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
- G. A. Studdert-Kennedy
Wierd, Perverted, Sick, Twisted, Funny, but never dull.
- Lehlan Decker
Time is the enemy of all things........
- Anonymous
They have us right where we want them
- Wolverine
Innocence lost can never be regained.......
- An old sage
Life is a joke, The question is, is it funny?
- Anonymous
The game is nothing, the playing of it is everything.
- Joram (Darksword)
It is better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all
- Lehlan
The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train.
- Murphy's Law
Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself
- Murphy's Law
A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse,
and the paradise of the eye.........
- An Anonymous poet
Living and Surviving are two seperate things.
- Drizzit
What people don't understand, they fear. What they fear they seek to
destroy....
- Old Maxim
It was only the battle, not the war........
- An anonymous old warrior
The only two sure things in life are death and taxes....
- An anonymous old man
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world..
Hope is the dream of a waking man...
- Pliny the Elder
Why is it that the years fly by, but the nights seem to last forever....
- Wise old sage
Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway..
Virginity can be cured.
- Murphy's Law
Come in peace, Stay in peace, or leave in pieces......
- Howling Coyote
It isn't about dying. Its about making the journey count.
I didn't make the rules, I just break them.
Life is short -- this is not a rehearsal.
If your not living life on the edge, you taking up too much space
I tried reality once, I found it too confining
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb, voting on what to have for lunch.
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