Wise men make proverbs, only fools repeat them

[ParryRiposte]

Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past.
~ T.S. Eliot

[fences_like_a_lemur]

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

~Anais Nin

[I_luv_saber]

Who's the greater fool? The fool, or the fool who follows him?
-Obi-Wan Kenobi

[Angwilwileth]

Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
-unknown

[ParryRiposte]

Knowledge is power. Power is energy. Energy is heat. Heat makes fire. Fire causes destruction...
~ Sam Hughes

[I_luv_saber]

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

[notalent]

Then there is the a more modern outlook on war. " It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow to fond of it." Robert E Lee

“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are virtues superior to andreia, to manly valor.”

~Polynikes


1000th post!!!!!

[notalent]

"We hold these truths to be self eveident. That all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator certain inaliable rights. Among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
The Declaration of Independece

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"We all can be only who we are, no more, no less."

~Kahlan

[Angwilwileth]

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
-unknown

Not nearly as profound, but true nonetheless.

[fences_like_a_lemur]

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

~Sir Winston Churchill

[I_luv_saber]

Show me a good man, and I'll show you the door. The last hymn is sung, and the devil cries, "More!"
-Jethro Tull again

[JackOfHearts]

"...today love is like war, and the cuirass has become useless in it."
-Alexandre Dumas

[fences_like_a_lemur]

We make war that we may live in peace.

~Aristotle

[I_luv_saber]

I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome
-George W. Bush

[SSMSabreMN]

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."
- Woody Allen

sad thing is I think I fully understand this whole thing...

*looks for something more productive to do...*

[ParryRiposte]

The only gold is love,
A coin that we have minted from the light
Of others who have cared for us on Earth
And who have deposited in us the power
That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.
~ Phillip Jose Farmer

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"All I want from Life is to get out alive..."

~ Anonymous

[notalent]

Veni vidi vici

I came I saw I conquered

Guias Julius Cesar

[ParryRiposte]

Aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
It is said that for a sick man, there is hope as long as there is life.

~ M. Tullius Cicero