Thanks, Twitch. Now, let's see if I got some more . . .
"There are alway three sides in a war: The winner, the loser, and cannon-fodder!" - From some game I played once, don't remember name.
"At last! Back to WAR!" - tagline - Dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40 000
May you always have food and shelter
A soft pillow for your head.
And may you be forty years in Heaven
Before the Devil knows you're dead!
- Irish Saying
"Do you want another spongebath?" - Medic - StarCraft BW
"The future is not set in stone; There is no future but what we make for ourselves." - Terminatoer 1&2
"If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger gun!" - Unknown. Think it might be Jayne from Firefly.
OK, I'm out for now. See ya's later!
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Zered003
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Winning isn't the most important thing. It is the only thing. - Unknown
I have but only one more life to take. - Gladiator
Oh, my slushi. - Guard peas off Veggie Tales
Ramming speed! - Worf , Star Trek First Contact
I have but only one more life to take. - Gladiator
Oh, my slushi. - Guard peas off Veggie Tales
Ramming speed! - Worf , Star Trek First Contact
I enjoy the moments of peace and quite.
You know, when you dont think about anything.
I enjoy all 3 seconds of the day when that happens.
You know, when you dont think about anything.
I enjoy all 3 seconds of the day when that happens.
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Harrie
- Commander
- Posts: 1382
- Joined: Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:00 am
- Location: Defending Antioch from the Sassanid Empire
- Contact:
"Here Rests
In Honored Glory
An American Soldier
Known But To God"
-inscription on the Tomb of the Unknowns.
'I would trade my Immortal soul for that medal.' - General Patton on the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In Honored Glory
An American Soldier
Known But To God"
-inscription on the Tomb of the Unknowns.
'I would trade my Immortal soul for that medal.' - General Patton on the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The Roman Empire did not create prosperity and come to be feared by having meetings and doing paperwork; they did this by killing all who opposed them.
I once knew a man named Thomas O'Day
Who died defending his right of way.
His will was true, his faith was strong,
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong!
- A poem that a friend quoted when asked about religion
"I sense grave danger . . . ." - Star Wars, need I say more . . .
"I love the smell of hot napalm in the mornin'!" - Scorched Earth
"I lost a bomb! Do you have it?" - Crazy Ivan, Red Alert
"Gimme somethin' to shoot!" - Siege Tank, StarCraft
"Anyone for a barbeque?" - Firebat, StarCraft
"Ill be back." - DUH
"In war, as in all things, there can be only three outcomes: Victory, defeat and death." - Don't have a clue, but oh so true!
"I know this, there are only two constants in this world: Death and taxes!" - a very wise man.
"Like a careless child with fire, so was I with time" - Magic: The Gathering, Teferi
"There is no honor in victory, and no dishonor in defeat. These lie only in how we win or loose."
"If at first you don't succeed, come back with a bigger army!" - A friend of mine on the topic of Strategy Gaming
All for now!
Who died defending his right of way.
His will was true, his faith was strong,
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong!
- A poem that a friend quoted when asked about religion
"I sense grave danger . . . ." - Star Wars, need I say more . . .
"I love the smell of hot napalm in the mornin'!" - Scorched Earth
"I lost a bomb! Do you have it?" - Crazy Ivan, Red Alert
"Gimme somethin' to shoot!" - Siege Tank, StarCraft
"Anyone for a barbeque?" - Firebat, StarCraft
"Ill be back." - DUH
"In war, as in all things, there can be only three outcomes: Victory, defeat and death." - Don't have a clue, but oh so true!
"I know this, there are only two constants in this world: Death and taxes!" - a very wise man.
"Like a careless child with fire, so was I with time" - Magic: The Gathering, Teferi
"There is no honor in victory, and no dishonor in defeat. These lie only in how we win or loose."
"If at first you don't succeed, come back with a bigger army!" - A friend of mine on the topic of Strategy Gaming
All for now!
From the flames of the Ages, The Firebird once more awakens...
Fighting member of the Four Star Alliance.
It has begun...
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Harrie
- Commander
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- Joined: Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:00 am
- Location: Defending Antioch from the Sassanid Empire
- Contact:
Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persain archers were so numberous that, when they fired their volleys, the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, "Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade." -Herodotus, The Histories
The Roman Empire did not create prosperity and come to be feared by having meetings and doing paperwork; they did this by killing all who opposed them.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Szasz
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more
hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have
ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
-C. P. Snow
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
-Dudley Moore
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
-H. L. Mencken.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-Jules Renard
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
-Ovid
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Sir Winston Churchill
The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal"
-Peter Brimelow
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
-Ambrose Bierce
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
-Judith Martin
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-Thomas Pickering
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram
it down their throats.
-Howard Aiken
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
-Niels Bohr
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
-John Russell
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some
other Englishman hate or despise him.
-George Bernard Shaw
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
-Robert Heinlein
If for a tranquil mind you seek,
These things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.
-Anonymous
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to
form a corporation.
-Howard Scott
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
-Unknown
At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
-Thai Proverb
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
-Abigail Van Buren
BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
-Ambrose Bierce
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and
customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid
concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting
a vanishing opportunity.
-Ambrose Bierce
PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
-Ambrose Bierce
MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
-Ambrose Bierce
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin,
to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have
been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a
disagreeable expectation..
-Ambrose Bierce
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge
familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
-Ambrose Bierce
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and
his faith in your patience.
-Ambrose Bierce
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
-Ambrose Bierce
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty
knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing
him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto
commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
-Ambrose Bierce
SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may
not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
-Ambrose Bierce
AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain.
-Ambrose Bierce
ALONE, adj. In bad company.
-Ambrose Bierce
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
-Ambrose Bierce
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence.
It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture
and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused
of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle
agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors
if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it.
-Ambrose Bierce
EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power,
or the consideration to be dead.
-Ambrose Bierce
SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
-Ambrose Bierce
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with
a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of
matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to
approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science,
having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
-Ambrose Bierce
PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation
with least harm to the patient.
-Ambrose Bierce
WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as
"liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
-Ambrose Bierce
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a
little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
-Ambrose Bierce
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies.
Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed
the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long
time ago a man lost his life in a duel.
-Ambrose Bierce
I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her
son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
-Ernest Coquelin
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
-Euripides
OK, SO I WENT LOOKING THROUGH MY HD AT HOME, BUT YOU GOT TO ADMIT, THERE ARE SOME CLASSICS IN THERE! ALL THE ONES BY AMBROSE BIERCE ARE FROM THE 'DEVIL'S DICTIONARY', WHICH HAS SOME OF THE FUNNIEST ONE I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE!
-Thomas Szasz
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more
hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have
ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
-C. P. Snow
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
-Dudley Moore
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
-H. L. Mencken.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-Jules Renard
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
-Ovid
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Sir Winston Churchill
The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal"
-Peter Brimelow
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
-Ambrose Bierce
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
-Judith Martin
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-Thomas Pickering
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram
it down their throats.
-Howard Aiken
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
-Niels Bohr
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
-John Russell
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some
other Englishman hate or despise him.
-George Bernard Shaw
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
-Robert Heinlein
If for a tranquil mind you seek,
These things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.
-Anonymous
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to
form a corporation.
-Howard Scott
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
-Unknown
At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
-Thai Proverb
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
-Abigail Van Buren
BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
-Ambrose Bierce
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and
customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid
concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting
a vanishing opportunity.
-Ambrose Bierce
PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
-Ambrose Bierce
MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
-Ambrose Bierce
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin,
to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have
been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a
disagreeable expectation..
-Ambrose Bierce
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge
familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
-Ambrose Bierce
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and
his faith in your patience.
-Ambrose Bierce
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
-Ambrose Bierce
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty
knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing
him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto
commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
-Ambrose Bierce
SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may
not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
-Ambrose Bierce
AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain.
-Ambrose Bierce
ALONE, adj. In bad company.
-Ambrose Bierce
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
-Ambrose Bierce
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence.
It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture
and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused
of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle
agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors
if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it.
-Ambrose Bierce
EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power,
or the consideration to be dead.
-Ambrose Bierce
SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
-Ambrose Bierce
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with
a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of
matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to
approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science,
having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
-Ambrose Bierce
PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation
with least harm to the patient.
-Ambrose Bierce
WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as
"liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
-Ambrose Bierce
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a
little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
-Ambrose Bierce
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies.
Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed
the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long
time ago a man lost his life in a duel.
-Ambrose Bierce
I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her
son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
-Ernest Coquelin
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
-Euripides
OK, SO I WENT LOOKING THROUGH MY HD AT HOME, BUT YOU GOT TO ADMIT, THERE ARE SOME CLASSICS IN THERE! ALL THE ONES BY AMBROSE BIERCE ARE FROM THE 'DEVIL'S DICTIONARY', WHICH HAS SOME OF THE FUNNIEST ONE I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE!
From the flames of the Ages, The Firebird once more awakens...
Fighting member of the Four Star Alliance.
It has begun...
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Harrie
- Commander
- Posts: 1382
- Joined: Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:00 am
- Location: Defending Antioch from the Sassanid Empire
- Contact:
My name is Misty and I am but three,
Tonight my daddy Murdered me.
- last lines of the 'Misty' (http://www.cybergreets.net/misty.html) poem
Tonight my daddy Murdered me.
- last lines of the 'Misty' (http://www.cybergreets.net/misty.html) poem
The Roman Empire did not create prosperity and come to be feared by having meetings and doing paperwork; they did this by killing all who opposed them.
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blindeye01
- Captain
- Posts: 2449
- Joined: Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:00 am
- Location: The real question is where are you?
"I'm booked for Tuesday, Apocalypse." - Unknown
"What did God say when he looked at his PDA and found out he was supposed to be helping both Bush AND Bin Laden? "Oh s***, I've double booked again!" " - Jack Dee (Not exact quote)
"On a scale of 1 - 10, how doomed are we?"
"About 12."
"Ah." - Unknown
"What did God say when he looked at his PDA and found out he was supposed to be helping both Bush AND Bin Laden? "Oh s***, I've double booked again!" " - Jack Dee (Not exact quote)
"On a scale of 1 - 10, how doomed are we?"
"About 12."
"Ah." - Unknown
Engage!
"A2 Files Site Admin...darn proud of it too!"
"A2 Files Site Admin...darn proud of it too!"
The true test of a man is not what he does in times of adversity, but rather how he does it! - Unknown
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you."
A. Whitney Brown
A house is made of walls and beams;
A home is built with love and dreams.
Author Unknown
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
Walter J. Lippmann
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
Richard Armour
I'm a born-again atheist.
Gore Vidal
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Nicholai Velimirovic
Live or die, it's all the same to me. I've seen what lies beyond, and have no fear of it....
Unknown (but mayhap slightly loony, methinks
)
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you."
A. Whitney Brown
A house is made of walls and beams;
A home is built with love and dreams.
Author Unknown
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
Walter J. Lippmann
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
Richard Armour
I'm a born-again atheist.
Gore Vidal
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Nicholai Velimirovic
Live or die, it's all the same to me. I've seen what lies beyond, and have no fear of it....
Unknown (but mayhap slightly loony, methinks
) From the flames of the Ages, The Firebird once more awakens...
Fighting member of the Four Star Alliance.
It has begun...
"Battleplans are all well and good, but here's the truth; It doesn't matter how well concieved the plan is, no plans survives contact with the enemy!"
A friend, on the topic of C&C Red Alert
Now, tell me how true this sounds......
If the first dimension is a dot; to get the second, you must square the dot. The second is a line; to get the third, you must square the line. The third is a cube; to get the fourth, you must square the cube. To us, this is impossible, but what if we change the graphic to 3d: Draw a line, left to right. At right angles to it, draw on top to bottom. Now, at right angles to them, draw one going into and out of the orgional plain. Now you have dimensions 1-3. Now try this for four: a perfect sphere, centered where the lines cross! As per perpendicular mathematics, all the lines will intersect the surface of the sphere at 90 degrees, or right angles!! Is it not safe, then, to assume the space it curved, and that time is a sphere, since general theory suggests time is the fourth dimension . . . .
-My Science teacher. Smart and wise . . .
A friend, on the topic of C&C Red Alert
Now, tell me how true this sounds......
If the first dimension is a dot; to get the second, you must square the dot. The second is a line; to get the third, you must square the line. The third is a cube; to get the fourth, you must square the cube. To us, this is impossible, but what if we change the graphic to 3d: Draw a line, left to right. At right angles to it, draw on top to bottom. Now, at right angles to them, draw one going into and out of the orgional plain. Now you have dimensions 1-3. Now try this for four: a perfect sphere, centered where the lines cross! As per perpendicular mathematics, all the lines will intersect the surface of the sphere at 90 degrees, or right angles!! Is it not safe, then, to assume the space it curved, and that time is a sphere, since general theory suggests time is the fourth dimension . . . .
-My Science teacher. Smart and wise . . .
From the flames of the Ages, The Firebird once more awakens...
Fighting member of the Four Star Alliance.
It has begun...