Virgil61 Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Good people come uninvited to good people's feasts. -- Ancient Greek traditional: but some argued that the first 'good' should really be replaced by 'bad'. Discuss! I submit that "No good deed goes unpunished" proves the latter argument. and "Better a dinner of herbs and love therewith , than hatred and a stalled ox" as backup. "Friends help you move, good friends help you move the body." -- New 'Joisey' unofficial state motto Let them hate us as long as they fear us. --Caligula True story, I may have repeated here once before. A Reserve Marine infantry battalion (BN) commander in Al Kut, Iraq around summer/fall of 2003 used to spout this quotation off. His troops acted accordingly pretty much alienating the local populace. Once the division commander found out about it he summed the BN commander in and ordered the whole BN to 'stand down' for 24 hours and reflect on how harmful that attitude was to promoting goodwill among the population. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princeps Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Fortune sometimes breaks off completely, sometimes merely delays, the execution of mens plans. --Velleius Paterculus The most common beginning of disaster was a sense of security. --Velleius Paterculus What is truth? --Pontius Pilate A man must be either frugal, or Caesar. --Caligula The man was a teacher of a peculiar sect of his own, and was not like the rest of their leaders. --Josephus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Clodius Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 "Huh! What? I don't get it! These people are out of their minds.." What went through Hannibal's head after his envoys returned from Rome and reported they'd been given the finger after Cannae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Paulinus Maximus Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 ult sementum feceris ita metes as you sow, so shall you reap - cicero life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get! - forrest gump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 (edited) "Better to live one day as a lion, than a hundred years as a sheep" -- Benito Mussolini "Life is just a memory...but the sleep that follows is eternal..." -- Unknown Edited July 20, 2010 by Lex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbow Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 (edited) "I like a man who grins when he fights", Winston Churchill. Edited May 26, 2006 by longbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 "When I read about the evils of drinking, I give up reading." Henny Youngman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neos Dionysos Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 "History is, indeed, little more than the register of the the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." "The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself." "Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes." ~Edward Gibbon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 "Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something"-Plato How true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 "All the technical information was stolen from reliable sources and I am happy to stand behind it" Edward Abbey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Clodius Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 "Quiting smoking is easy, I do it all the time!" Mark Twain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rameses the Great Posted July 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 May you live in interesting times. --Homer D'oh! --Homer of the Simpsons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rameses the Great Posted August 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 The unexamined life is not worth living. --Socrates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Favonius Cornelius Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, scince for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despiceable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." -- Albert Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantagathus Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims - Aristotle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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