Phrases/Quotes of Wisdom Thread

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Grudges make a person the grudge. Learn, forgive and move on.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" -Samuel Johnson
(Caught here in a firey blaze, won't lose my will to stay...)

"I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." -Winston Churchill

"With a gentlemen I am always a gentleman and a half, and with with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half." - Otto von Bismarck

"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind that understands things for itself, the other that appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. The first kind excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless." -Niccolo Machiavelli

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure." - Dan Quayle

War is a positive for many reasons, it allows us to excise a majority of our natural violent tendencies which are merely made stronger via training, it allows munition contractors to make vast sums of money and of course here is the most pressing of reasons for war to continue to exist as an institution. How else can one determine just who is right in the grand scheme of things? Debate is a tired school of thought, intellectual diatribes aside there has only ever been a single solution to prove which mentality, which ideology should persist into the future to touch the minds of the next generation. It is simply the right of the victor, that is the single simple truth of war, it provides profit, relief and allows us to determine what is worth of seeing tomorrow.-This one ironically comes from me

THE SABBATH OF THE GOAT

O! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan.
{Pi-Alpha-Nu}: Duality: Energy: Death.
Death: Begetting: the supporters of O!
To beget is to die; to die is to beget.
Cast the Seed into the Field of Night.
Life and Death are two names of A.
Kill thyself.
Neither of these alone is enough.

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields.

                                                                                              " Fuck it. " - Samuel L. Jackson.

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

-Aesop

"You don't need to douche, but there will always be plenty of them around."

-My Grandma

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.