And though I had slain a thousand foes less one,
The thousandth knife found my liver;
The thousandth enemy said to me,
'Now you shall die,
Now none shall know.'
And the fool, looking down, believed this,
Not seeing, above his shoulders, the naked stars,
Each one remembering.
--John M. Ford, The Final Reflection

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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any." - Russel Baker

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Starfish!


Mmm. Fuuko-chan.

"The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation." -Lt. Col (Rtd) Jean Dubios, Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlien

“The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.” - Dave Mustaine

"Reality is an illusion created by a lack of good alcohol."

"When you can't run, you walk, when you can't walk, you crawl and when you can't crawl you find someone to carry you."

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer." - Douglas Adams

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." - W.C. Fields

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." - Dale Carnegie

"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." - Edgar Wallace

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'." - Chris Rock

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Public education in large states will always be mediocre, for the same reasons that food from large kitchens is usually bad." -Nietzsche

"Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours." -Colonel Joachim Pfeiff, 14th Kriegs Panzer Regiment

"The primary function of government is to perpetuate legalized theft."

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times. to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats" - H.L. Mencken

"In Wartime, the truth is so Precious that she must be attended to by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill

"If the choice is between cowardice, and violence, I choose violence." - Ghandi

Note: This is a placeholder. I'm sure I'll have time to write a proper entry later on. Just not at this specific time. The quotes will go away eventually.

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