Collected Quotes & Passages

• Andrew was a solemn ole git,
  But his friends thought he had wit.
  He'd break you with quotes,
  Or read you his notes,
  But he'd never bore you a bit.
  - Walker Jackson Pace

• Life is 90% bullshit.
  - Walker Jackson Pace

• Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell, and rose again.
  - (Submitted by Walker Jackson Pace)

• What do you call insanity? Insanity is sanity in an insane world.
  - Chris Leiby

• When you look in a mirror, ask yourself, "Are you looking in the mirror or are you the one being looked at?"
  - Chris Leiby

• Never believe a lie or deny the truth its right.
  - Chris Leiby

• No light, but rather darkness visible.
  - Chris Leiby

• Sometimes I see images of a life gone by - of a life I did not live - and I wonder if they are visions of what might have been?
  - Chris Leiby

• If you look at a pile of rocks, see not the rocks but instead see the area around the rocks. If you look at a shadow, see not a shadow but see the absence of light. Always seek to see what you do not see. Know what you do not know. This is the way to knowledge.
  - Sonshi: The Ninpo book of war (Submitted by Chris Leiby)

• Emotion is mankind's greatest weapon, but it is also his greatest weakness.
  - Sonshi: The Ninpo book of war (Submitted by Chris Leiby)

• A flower must die in the grip of winter in order to be born again in the fires of spring. A man must die in the grasp of old-age, and yet the lifeforce bursts forth in the children he has sired. An oak, though it spreads it's arms to the sky for thrice-times a hundred years, is still finally stricken by death; and yet the life is carried on anew in the acorns it has borne. All that lives must die, and yet the promise of tomorrow's life is contained in the seeds of today's death. As it is in nature, so it is in the ideas and philosophies of man. Great ideas are born and flourish and mankind soars to the heavens on the wings of their truth and beauty, and yet these ideas, these philosophies must whither and die in order that new life, new ideas, new philosophies can be given the soil in which to flourish.
  - Old Druid Belief (Submitted by Chris Leiby)

• The man who says little, but lets his actions speak for him, is the one to listen to.
  - Old Chinese Proverb (Submitted by Chris Leiby)

• Haud Semper Errat Fama
  Rumour is not always wrong
  - (Submitted by Chris Leiby)

• Don't judge a book by its cover. Don't judge a man by his looks. Only judge them by what's inside.
  - (Submitted by Chris Leiby)

• A wise man holds his tongue for he is at peace with his own mind, while a fool blurts out what he knows or even worse yet what he does not.
  - (Submitted by Chris Leiby)

• The venom of a man's enemy, is a measure of his own strength.
  - Winston Spencer Churchill

• I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
  - Winston Spencer Churchill

• One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse.
  - Winston Spencer Churchill

• "Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!" Churchill burst into a diatribe about the brevity of life and ended: "We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glowworm."
  - (From: The Last Lion)

• Churchill's critics called him rash, impetuous, tactless, contentious, inconsistent, unsound, an amusing parliamentary celebrity who was forever out of step. "We just don't know what to make of him," a troubled Tory MP told Lady Astor. She asked brightly, "How about a nice rug?"
  - (From: The Last Lion)

• While in Parliament one day, Churchill stared across the house at McDonald, and said, "I remember when I was a child being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder". My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."
  - (From: The Last Lion)

• Lady Astor:
  "If you were my husband, I would poison your soup."
  Winston Churchill:
  "And if I were your husband, Madam, I would drink it."
  

• When rehearsals for Pygmalion ended at His Majesty's Theatre, George Bernard Shaw wired Winston: "Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one." Churchill wired back: "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one."
  - (From: The Last Lion)

• Mr. Churchill was dozing his way through a long, boring speech in the House of Commons. The speaker suddenly noticed him and asked loudly, "Must you fall asleep when I am speaking?" Mr. Churchill answered, "No, it's purely voluntary."
  

• Winston Churchill was once asked, "Doesn't it thrill you to know that every time you make a speech, the hall is packed to overflowing?"
  "It's quite flattering," replied Sir Winston. "But whenever I feel that way, I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big."
  

• Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
  - Winston Spencer Churchill

• ...(Winston) was, in fact, remarkable. His grasp of history was outstanding. Yet he was considered a hopeless pupil. It occurred to no one that the fault might lie, not in the boy, but in the school. Samual Butler defined genius as "a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds," and it is ironic that geniuses are likeliest to be misunderstood in classrooms. Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota have found that teachers smile on children with high IQs and frown upon those with creative minds. Intelligent but uncreative students accept conformity, never rebel, and complete their assignments with dispatch and to perfection. The creative child, on the other hand, is manipulative, imaginative, and intuitive. He is likely to harass the teacher. He is regarded as wild, naughty, silly, undependable, lacking in seriousness or even promise. His behaviour is distracting; he doesn't seem to be trying; he gives unique answers to banal questions, touching off laughter among the other children. E. Paul Torrance of Minnesota found that 70% of pupils rated high in creativity were rejected by teachers picking a special class for the intellectually gifted. The Goertzels concluded that a Stanford study of genius, under which teachers selected bright children, would have excluded Churchill, Edison, Picasso and Mark Twain.
  - (From: The Last Lion)

• Whatever happens, we have got
  The Maxim gun and they have not.
  - c. 1874 (From: The Last Lion)

• Fiel Pero Desdichado
  Faithful but Unfortunate
  - Churchill Coat of Arms (From: The Last Lion: Alone 1932-1940)

• You know how I always dread the whole coming year? Well this time, I'm just going to do it one day at a time.
  - Charlie Brown

• I've heard it said that in lies, more than once, is the truth.
  - (From: East of Eden)

• Stand by what you believe in, even if you stand alone.
  

• Success leads to stagnation; Stagnation leads to failure.
  - (From: Jhereg)

• Failure leads to maturity; Maturity leads to success.
  - (From: Jhereg)

• Inspiration requires preparation.
  - (From: Jhereg)

• There is no such thing as failure - only results. It may not be the result you wanted - but you did succeed at producing the result!
  - Anthony Robbins

• I'm not afraid to die - I just don't wanna be there when it happens!
  - Woody Allen

• ...Bolitho knew that every man but an idiot was afraid. But showing it was unforgivable.
  - Alexander Kent (Form Line of Battle)

• ...It was strange how you never seemed to be able to rid yourself of old enemies...yet friends came and went and their paths hardly ever crossed a second time.
  - Alexander Kent (Form Line of Battle)

• A secret shared is no longer a secret.
  - Alexander Kent (Success to the Brave)

• In the navy's private world you found and hung on to friends with all your might. When they fell you lost something with them. Survival did not spare you the pain of their passing; it never could.
  - Alexander Kent (Honour This Day)

• We are both in need. Like a dog and master. Each fearful that the other would die first.
  - Alexander Kent (Honour This Day)

• What is a word but a name for an idea?
  - Me

• Anger when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer felt.
  - Francis Quarles

• Revenge is a dish best served cold.
  - (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.) (Also a Sicilian proverb)

• Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
  - George Eliot

• All that glitters is not gold,
  Gilded tombs do worms infold.
  - William Shakespeare

• The friends thou hast, and their adoptions tried,
  Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
  - William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of in your philosophy.
  - William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

• "...religion is man's attempt to reach God, while Jesus is God's attempt to reach man."
  - Tim LaHay & Jerry B. Jenkins (The Indwelling)

• For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  - John 3:16

• Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  - John 15:13

• Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.
  - Revelation 3:20

• Common sense is not so common.
  - Voltaire

• 'Tis more brave to live than to die.
  - Owen Meredith

• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
  - Francis Bacon (Essay on Studies)

• A man's own good breeding is his best security against other people's ill manners.
  - Lord Chesterfield (Letters to his Son)

• After their friendship there is nothing so dangerous as to have them for enemies.
  - Lord Chesterfield (Letters to his Son)

• Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
  - John Webster

• It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
  - Proverb

• Reprove thy friend privately, commend him publicly.
  - Proverb

• Whoever claims to have many friends is either a liar or a fool.
  

• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
  Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness.
  So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another.
  Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A pleasant possession is useless without a comrade.
  - Seneca

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Friendship)

• An untrustworthy friend is the worst kind of enemy.
  - Wilbur Smith (Cry Wolf)

• The dhow creaked like an old man with arthritis, came around wearily on to the wind, and butted its nose in towards the land. The new motion, combined with the swamp smell and the smell of freshly stirred bilges, moved something deep within Sebastian. His grip upon the rail increased, and new sweat popped out like little blisters on his brow. He leaned forward, and, to shouts of encouragement from the crew, made another sacrifice to the sea gods.
  - Wilbur Smith (Shout at the Devil)

• Noli illegitimi carborundum
  Don't let the bastards grind you down.
  - Wilbur Smith (Cry Wolf)

• Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
  In the forests of the night...
  In what distant deeps or skies
  Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
  - William Blake

• Where lies the land to which the ship would go?
  Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know.
  And where lies the land she travels from? Away
  Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
  - Arthur Hugh Clough

• Far away where sky met sea
  A majestic figure grew,
  Pushed along by Royal decree
  Her aggressive pennants flew.

  Blazing red, dark plumes of grey,
  Destructive overall,
  As shot and grape found its way
  Into a human wall.
  - Daniel Byrne (A Mariner's Tale)

• What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
  - Disraeli

• It's no use blowing the trumpet for the charge and then looking around to find nobody following.
  - Joseph Chamberlain

• It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
  

• "My light...I thought it was Mrs. Victor's soul going up to heaven."
  - (From: Empire of the Sun) Jamie {Upon realising the flash he'd seen was the atomic bomb being dropped}

• "...No one escapes from life alive."
  - Michael Crichton (Congo)

• That which is imagined need never be lost.
  - Clive Barker (Weaveworld)

• If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,
  and have a flower presented to him as a pledge
  that his soul had really been there, and if he
  found that flower in his hand when he awoke -
  Aye, and what then?
  - S.T. Coleridge (Anima Poetae)

• Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build houses in your heart.
  - Stephen King (It)

• Friendship is a thing sensed inwardly as much as a thing pledged openly. One feels friendship, and becomes bound by it.
  - Terry Brooks (The Wishsong of Shannara)

• ...Reese was acutely aware that when a man had more reason to live, he was more likely to die.
  - Leigh Nichols (Shadowfires)

• Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draught horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it...We should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open.
  - Raistlin (Dragons of Autumn Twilight)

• Tas:
  "It's hard - caring - isn't it, Caramon? It hurts sometimes."
  Caramon:
  "Yes, Tas. It hurts a lot of the time. But that hurt is better than being empty inside."
  - (From: The Test of the Twins)

• The English are very bold, courageous, ardent, and cruel in war, fiery in attack and having little fear of death. They are not vindictive, but very inconstant, rash and vainglorious; light and deceiving, and very suspicious, especially of foreigners, whom they despise.
  - Van Meteren, 16th century Dutch historian

• The boldest measures are usually the safest.
  - Lord Horatio Nelson

• ...Happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred; hapiness should remain unexamined as long as possible."
  

• Earth is where doubts grow. Heaven is where they are put to rest, forever.
  - Roger Elwwod (Angelwalk)

• When the dead are forgotten, they have died twice.
  - Barbara Wood (Green City in the Sun)

• Insanity is refusing to go down certain paths of speculation even though the logic is there...
  - Stephen King (The Tommyknockers)

• There are times when even the most despised things have value.
  - Chelsea Quin Yarbro (The Palace)

• Nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul...
  - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Roman Emperor 121-180 AD

• ...There are certain dynamics that take place when only two people are present...it gets complicated and phony when there is even one more person. We couldn't speak like this.
  - Nelson DeMille (Word of Honour)

• And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
  - Revelation 21:3,4

• "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that are in hell choose it."
  - C.S. Lewis

• May I deal with honour.
  May I act with courage.
  May I achieve humility.
  - Dick Francis

• Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend.
  - Dick Francis

• Between the idea
  And the reality...
  Falls the shadow.
  - T.S. Eliot (The Hollow Men)

• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
  - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• If You Have a Friend
  

  If you have a friend worth loving
  Love him! Yes and let him know
  That you love him, ere lifes evening
  Tinge his brow with sunset's glow.
  Why should good words never be said
  Of a friend until he is dead?
  

  If you hear a song that thrills you
  Sung by any child of song,
  Praise it! Do not let the singer
  Wait deserved praises long.
  Why should one who thrills your heart
  Lack the joy you may impart?
  

  If you hear a prayer that moves you
  By its humbly praising tone,
  Join it! Do not let the seeker
  Bow before its God alone.
  Why should not your brother share
  The strength of two or three in prayer?
  

  If you see the hot tears falling
  From a brother's weeping eyes,
  Share them! And by kindly sharing
  Our own kinship in the skies.
  Why should anyone be glad
  When a brother's heart is sad?
  

  If a silvery heart goes rippling
  Through the sunshine on his face,
  Share it! Tis the wise man's saying,
  For both grief and joy a place.
  There is health and goodness in the mirth
  In which an honest laugh has birth.
  

  If your work is made more easy
  By a friendly helping hand,
  Say so! Speak out brave and truly
  Ere a darkness veil the land.
  Should a brother workman dear
  Falter for a word of fear?
  

  Scatter your seeds of kindness
  All enriching as you go.
  Leave them! Trust the Harvest-Giver
  He will make each seed to grow.
  So until the happy end,
  Your life will never lack a friend.
  - Author unknown

• Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.
  - Georges Braque

• Amor Vincit Omnia
  Love Conquers All.
  

• If all is well, then leave it so.
  Wake not the sleeping wolf.
  

  
  

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