Axioms of the Day

[Lord Of Storms]

Greetings O'jonin san, are you a NinJutsu instructor? forgive me if this is to personal, but I recognize the term Togakure from my martial arts days, LOS

[DemonArchangel]

My axiom

Sucess is found in doing what others consider to be objectionable

[Ironside]

Notice that all qoutes are taken from a qouting book on Swedish and might be slightly mistranslated.
This one fits the spirit of MTW quite well.
Peace: in worldpolitics a period of cheating beetween two periods of fights.
Ambrose Bierce

The worst teacher is experince. It gives you the test before you had the lesson.
Vernon Law

Don't we hate it when are troops are following this advice.
Rather a coward in five minutes than dead for the rest of the life.
Kurt Tucholsky

The more enemies, the greater the glory.
Karl X Gustav (a Swedish warrior king)

Never blame your second shipwreck on the sea
Publilius Syrus

Ofcourse there is something called luck. How else would we explain our ememies success.
Jean Cocteau

How many men did you send to their death yesterday?
A politician is a man that is ready to sacrifice your life for his country.
Texas Guinan

These ones I felt had something to do with MTW on different ways. I could give some fun ones if you like.

[Shahed]

Very nice qoutes.

Here is one of my favorites.

The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Stephen Bantu Biko



Stephen Bantu Biko (December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s. He helped found the South African Students' Organisation in 1968 and elected its first president, in 1972 he became honorary president of the Black People's Convention. He was banned during the height of apartheid in March 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time and so could not make speeches in public. It was also forbidden to quote anything he said, including speeches or simple conversations.

On September 6, 1977 he was arrested at a police roadblock. He suffered a major head injury around September 6th while in police custody. On September 11, police loaded him into the back of a car and began the 740-mile drive to another prison. He died en route.

A page on Biko from South African History Online

Peter Gabriel wrote a song after Biko was killed:

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher

[Ironside]

I would prefer to change one word in this qoute.
One of the big advantages in this world is that you can despise and hate without knowing eachother.
Alessandro Manzoni

The history is full of wars that everyone knew that they never will happen.
J. Enoch Pomell

What experience and history is learning us is that people and goverments never learn from history.
Fredrich Hegel

Here is some humourus qoutes

It's a wonderfull goldwatch. I'm proud of it. My grandfather sold it to me on his deathbed
Woody Allen

It's not that I'm afraid of dying - I just don't to be there when it's happening
Woody Allen

When I was kidnapped my parents acted quickly. They rented my room.
Woody Allen

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists. Then I defenatly payed too much for my carpet
Woody Allen

When the missionaries came to Africa did they have the Bible with them. We had the earth. They said: Let us worship, and we closed our eyes. When we opened them did we have the Bible and they had the earth.
Desmond Tutu

We're educating people here
To read qoute books is a good thing to do for an uneducated person
Winston Churchill

This is the best last words I've ever seen
Die, my dear doctor? It's the last thing I'm planning to do.
Lord Palmerston

The expert funktion isn't to have more right but to have wrong by more complicated reasons.
David Butler

Plenty of men in the world have started from the bottom - and stayed there.
Unknown

I've seen the good old days in Dante's Divina Comedia
The weirdest with the future is that they will call our time for the good old days.
Ernest Hemingway

Every human is a little bit wierd exept you and me, and even you is a little bit weird.
Robert Owen

Hell is the place where the English is cooking the food, the Italians is directing the traffic and the Germans is the entertainers.
Robert Lembke

To get something done should a comittee be consisted by three people at most, and two should be absent.
Robert Copeland

You always find inuits that is ready to tell people in Kongo how you best stand the heat
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

On Monday does the French toss carrots after the departmentchiefs, on Tuesday potatoes after the policechief, on Wednesday they turn of the streets, on Thurday they are breaking the buissness-windows, on Friday they are demonstrating on Boulevard de l'Opera. What they are doing on Saturday I don't know, but on Sunday they are voteing on the goverment.
François Mitterand

Speak in anger and you will make the best speach you ever regretted
Winston Churchill

It was a long list I hope you enjoyed them

[Qilue]

This one I saw over at Apolyton. I can't remember by who though.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

[Teutonic Knight]

it is unbecoming of young men to utter maxims -Aristotle

[BDC]

Quote[/b] ]Hell is the place where the English is cooking the food, the Italians is directing the traffic and the Germans is the entertainers.
Robert Lembke

Hehe, I'll remember that.

[magnatz]

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
-- Nicolò Machiavelli

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
-- Mao Tse-Tung

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
-- Plutarch

[the Black Prince]

Yours is not to reason Why, Yours is to Do and Die - Tennyson,
if only my troops would listen to it

[Ironside]

Here's some I left out of my last post. It was to big.

Political skill is to predict what will happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And afterwards explain why it didn't happened.
Winston Churchill

A projects phases: 1.Enthusiasm 2. Disapointment 3. Panic 4. Investigation of the guilty 5. Punishment of the innocent 6. Rewards and honours to the completly inrelevant
Unkonwn

Results? My God, I have got plenty of results. I know thousands of things that doesn't work
Thomas A. Edison

How rare truth ever is, is the amount always bigger than the requests.
Josh Billings

Great men's success should always be meassured with with the meassures used to reatch it.
François de La Rochefoucauld

I can't understand why they in TV always apologies for bad transmissions but never for the regular program.
Otto Preminger

Attemts of creating heaven of earth always creates hell.
Karl Popper

In case you were wondering there's over 1000 quotes in that book so there's alot of good ones.

[Teutonic Knight]

any man who is under thirty who is not Liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not conservative has no brains. -Winston Churchill

I don't know much about music, in my line of work you don't have to -Elvis Presly

[BDC]

Going to war without the French is like going hunting without a harmonica - Someone in the US Administration (Donald Rumsfelt?)

Don't know if he actually said it... Funny though.

[el_slapper]

in french, l'ennemi, il est bête. Il croit que c'est nous, l'ennemi, alors qu'en fait c'est lui Pierre Desproges.

Rough translation, The enemy is stupid. He believes that we are the enemy, but he's wrong : he is the enemy.

[Nowake]

let's see


blood is like shit, we're all so full of it

[katar]

The avalanche is coming..... it is too late for the pebbles to vote. Kosh Naranek B5

[Gregoshi]

I drank what?
Socrates

[squippy]

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men. Plato

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the nreasonable man
George Bernard Shaw

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
David Friedman

[Sasaki Kojiro]

If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.
-SSAT essay topic

[Scipio]

A little town in texas is missing its local idiot

Unkown source

[Jxrc]

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Gen George Patton or General Patterson ?

I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now.
Gen George Patton

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Gen George Patton

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck

[Teutonic Knight]

Least said is soonest mended -Old Greek Proverb

[hellenes]

OLON TON THNITON OI ARISTOI AIROUN MONON TIN AIONIAN DOXAN OI DE POLLOI KEKORINDAI OKOSPER KTHNEAFrom all the mortal (trivial material) things the perfect (Aristoi ) choose only the eternal glory but the majority chooses only the animal satisfaction (of pleasure)... IRAKLEITOS

[Teutonic Knight]

Quote[/b] (Jxrc @ Sep. 24 2003,12:16)]Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck

maybe he should've taken his own advice

[Manji]

Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, glory is forever. - me, based on Dave Mirra's comment Bones Heal.
Well....it's not by some famous general or notorious politician but it sums up what i believe: Never to quit, never to stop trying.

Cheers Mates

[Jxrc]

Quote[/b] (Teutonic Knight @ Sep. 24 2003,14:14)]

Quote[/b] (Jxrc @ Sep. 24 2003,12:16)]Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck

maybe he should've taken his own advice

Unless I am mistaken, Bismarck did not start many wars.

One with the Austrian (battle Sadowa)and one with the French (battle of Sedan). Both times, he managed to have its enemy delcare war on Prussia and both time the war was won with great benefit (end of the Austrian influence over Germany / anexion of Alsace-Lorraine).

Bismarck was dismissed whe he tried to oppose the agggressive policy of the new Kaiser William II, policy that triggered the conclusion of an alliance between France, Russia and England and made WWI possible.

If any from Germany or Austria thinks I have not been accurate, please correct me.

[A.Saturnus]

Ok, I`ll respond another time. Untill then: Eagles may soar, but weasels don`t get sucked into jet-engines - unknown

[Jxrc]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill

[Jxrc]

All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time. - Lieutenant General Lewis B.Chesty Puller (when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions)

Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer. - Major Holdridge

[Teutonic Knight]

Quote[/b] (TogakureOjonin @ Sep. 25 2003,05:12)]No, please do not correct him, at least not in this thread.

I started this thread as a place to share axioms, maxims, or quotes that convey wisdom, wit, or humor, etc. Limit your posts to the topic that has been presented.

If you would like to debate, please start another thread, or join one of the many other threads where debates are taking place constantly. If you insist on posting them here, I will ask a moderator to have them removed.

Thank you.

I apologize for the remark