Words of Wisdom

[thewhiterecluse]

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus - Greek Philospher - 55AD- 135AD

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Pandora]

If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.

No idea who said it.

[thewhiterecluse]

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle

[thewhiterecluse]

"Adversity is the first path to truth. " - Lord Byron

[Goth Brooks]

I love Thomas Jefferson:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. (You listening Kwame?)

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson

[Oh_My_Goth]

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

-Charles Caleb Colton

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

-Albert Camus

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

-George Carlin

[Oh_My_Goth]

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

-William James

The middle course is the best.

-Cleobulus

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,

a fool by his own.

-Latin Proverb

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.

-Alexander Chase

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

-Democritus

[Rev.Reverence]

"Do what Thou Will; shall be the whole of the LAW!

LOVE is the LAW; LOVE under WILL.

...Conquer, that is enough.."

~Sir E.A. Crowley 33*

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[Nightgaunt]

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

-Samuel Adams

"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."

-Ron Paul

"Oh Benson, dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence."

-The Devil, Time Bandits

"Don't give me songs; give me something to sing about."

-Buffy Summers

[machine]

"If we desire to insult, we must be able to repel it; if we

desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of

our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times

ready for War."

George Washington

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

Elmer Davis

"If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag." ~Author Unknown

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." ~Benjamin Franklin

[thewhiterecluse]

"Stand for something or fall for anything" - unknown

[phee]

"Nothing is ever as it seems, but everything is exactly as it is" -B. Banzai

[Homicidalheathen]

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

-Albert Camus

My motto! Oh yes! I wish MORE PEOPLE ascribed to this one.

cause my buisness ISN'T ANY OF YOURS!