Wise men make proverbs, only fools repeat them

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something.

~Plato

[ParryRiposte]

So Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
-Stephen Hawking

[Go? Fencing?]

If you give me a dozen words written by the most honest lion, I can find something in them to hang him.

-Cardinal Richelieu (kinda)

[ParryRiposte]

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
-Emily Brontë

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"Coincidence is logical"
-Johan Cruyff

[ParryRiposte]

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
-Einstein

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?"

~Plato

[ParryRiposte]

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.-Attributed to Aristotle

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong.
When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong.
But, if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

~Asimov's Axiom

[ParryRiposte]

Let none take away from what you have done here, and let none steal the credit for the valor of your defense. You have done what was thought to be impossible, for you have turned away the horde.
-Unknown

[D'Art]

Meep! Meep!
- Roadrunner

[swordwench]

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud

[JackOfHearts]

Grandmother said this: Men must be cool. Boiling water is but vapor.
-Tendou Souji

[ParryRiposte]

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person.
~ Buddha

[fences_like_a_lemur]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

~Confucius

[ParryRiposte]

A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.
-JFK

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.

~John Locke

[ParryRiposte]

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. -Tolstoy

[fences_like_a_lemur]

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

~William S. Halsey

[ParryRiposte]

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed. -Jose Rizal