At the end of the day, the solution to nine problems out of every ten is a man with a sword and some time on his hands.
Good Thieves steal everything that isn't nailed down.
Expert Thieves steal everything that is nailed down.
Master Thieves take the nails.
"Ideas are more powerful than guns; we would not let our enemies have guns, so why should we allow them to have ideas?"
-Joseph Stalin
best pickup line ever: "does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"
Steal one pound, and you're a thief.
Steal millions of pounds, and you're either a government or a hero.
-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
A General's duty is to win the battle, The duty of a good General is to do so with minimum losses to his men, The duty of a Great General is to win with minimum loses to both sides.
A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says "Make me one with everything."
~Robin Williams (Bicentennial Man)~
"Sadness is easier because it's surrender...I CHOOSE TO FIGHT"
This thread rocks with a capital 'Hell Yeah'
Fluffy: It's over Steve! I've got the high ground!
Steve: You underestimate my power!
Fluffy: Don't try it, Steve!
Steve: *charges*
Fluffy: *three critical strikes*
Steve: ****
"the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '
St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist Russia.
Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." – Thompson
"The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten."
—Independent on Sunday, October 12, 1997
"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
—Speech, University of Colorado, 1977
"Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid . . ."
"And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what's bein' crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."
Contrary to popular opinion, the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'fact'.
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian F. Gellert
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman
Isn't sanity just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all you get is that one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, well, the sky's the limit!
"The Tick (comic book)"
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the Titanic.
Eschew obfuscation.
An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth.
(Seen in a self-service gas pump display)
... because computers are happiest when we avoid describing them in anthropomorphic terms.
(from the preface of an O'Rielly book)
Heisenberg may have slept here.
Imagine, if you will, a world without hypothetical situations...
"Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive." (Elbert Hubbard)
"Can I say something about destiny? Screw destiny! If this evil thing comes we'll fight it, and we'll keep fighting it until we whoop it. 'Cause destiny is just another word for inevitable and nothing's inevitable as long as you stand up, look it in the eye, and say 'You're evitable!'"
--Fred, Angel
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
The French courage proceeds from vanity—the German from phlegm—the Turkish from fanaticism & opium—the Spanish from pride—the English from coolness—the Dutch from obstinacy—the Russian from insensibility—but the Italian from anger.
- George Gordon Noel Byron(1788–1824), British poet. in a letter to his publisher John Murray. (1820)
‘Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon’s mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Courage,” Society and Solitude (1870)
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, entry in 1859 (1909-1914)
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird, Pt. 1, Ch. 11 (1960)
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham, “A Time for Moral Courage” Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
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.
Courage is not the towering oak / That sees storms come and go, / It is the fragile blossom / That opens in the snow.
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Few things are more attractive than courage, cheerfulness and optimism. But they take on an extra dimension when you realize that they are not a lucky assembly of character traits, but the result of an act of will—a deliberate attempt to tackle an unkind destiny with strength of purpose and good humor.
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage. What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Last, but by no means least, courage— moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle— the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
One of my greatest fears, one of those few things that keeps me awake at night and troubles my dreams, is that, when the moment of truth comes, I will fail. This is surpassed only by the fear that when that moment arrives, I will not fail, but will lack the courage to try.
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
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