OT - quotes

[Puke]

I have seen some good quotes in sigs both here and in other places, and i have run across catchy things that ought to be shared, but just were not as symbolically apropriate as my bastardized theft of the description of the ancient god I use in my current sig.

here are a few i thought were worthy, feel free to post your own.

"Peace is the ideal of a dieing nation"
-Howard Phillips Lovecraft

"He who lives in a glass house, should dress in the basement"
-Anonymous poster on 'Revolution Calling BBS,' Circa 1990.

"Gentlemen, history will be kind to us because I plan to write it."
-Winston Churchill

"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter."
-Ernest Hemingway

well, thats about all for now. I could go on, but that should be enough to get people started.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Kimball]

"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

-Albert Einstein

[This message has been edited by Kimball (edited 03 October 2001).]

[Hotfoot]

"The meek shall inherit the Earth. We'll take everything else, thank you."
-Anonymous, found on Independence War's B5 TC Mod

"'Tis better to give than to receive' rings true to anyone who's seen what bullets can do."
-Anonymous, same source as above

"Hero, warrior, thief...there is little difference."
-"Kosh-ism", same source

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
-Don Marquis

"War can never be avoided, only postponed for the benefits of others."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"Keep your back to the wall and drink no wine."
-Roman proverb

Now, if I really wanted to, I could just dig up my copy of the Prince and have all sorts of nuggets of usefulness, but I think I'll stop there.

At least for now.

-Hotfoot
"An closed mouth collects no feet."

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[Saxon]

Praise God and pass the ammunition.

God is on the side of the heavy battalions.

I don’t know where either of these come from, but I would be interested if anyone else knows.

[Mephisto]

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."

Edward Harriman

[Askan Nightbringer]

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
-- Dom Helda Camara

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
-- President Abe Lincoln

No! Try Not -- Do, or Do Not; There is no Try...
-- Yoda

They make a desert and call it peace.
-- Tacitus (defining Roman imperialism)

Well hello Mr Fancy Pants.
-- Ash (ever quotable)

When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty.
-- Arthur Ponsonby (British diplomat and writer)


I'll stop now. I could look forever.
-- Askan

[Phoenix-D]

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves,
only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that
there may be something to them we are missing."
Gamel Abdel Nasser

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
~Thomas Edison

Phoenix-D

[dmm]

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." Jesus

Not the best quote for a wargaming forum, though.

[MegaTrain]

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
- President George W. Bush

[dmm]

One of my personal Favorites:
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." Einstein

From a Soviet-era officers' manual (or maybe it was a WWII German officers' manual; I can't remember):
"The difficulty in planning against the Americans is that their officers never follow their own manuals."