“It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.” -Genghis Khan 吾皇萬歲，萬歲，萬萬歲-The Chinese version of Tenno Heika Banzai
It was: "COME ON!... Do you want to live forever?" -Sergeant Daniel Daly to his troops, leading the Marine charge into Belleau Wood
I strongly suspect that the quote with the word "apes" in it is actually R. A. Heinlein - from Starship Troopers.
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Damn... You are right, I did get it off Starship Troopers. First page of first chapter, it had the quote. I don't think he revised it however.
"Animal rights people are all substance abusers. If you'd taken as much LSD as Paul McCartney, you wouldn't eat anything with a face either." -- Ted Nugent
"My professors at the college told me that my buildings would not stand up. They pointed endlessly to leaning walls and angled beams that could support no roof short of a canvas sheet. I nodded and vocally agreed, and so they tollerated me, but I always knew m buildigns were exactly as tehy should be. No, they would not stand as I had designed them, but they would grow, and one day they would stand on their own." -S.M. Peters Whitechapel gods
"Don't forget that you're a mental being, with a humongous trillion gigawatt hard-drive at your disposal. Most of you have been running it like crazy for four years, moaning about all the books you've had to read, the papers you've had to write, and the tests you've had to take. Yet thanks to that hard-drive and about a thousand cups of coffee, you made it. Just...let me put it this way. I can find out where you live. I have my resources. And if I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom nighttable but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming "Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?" I sound like I'm joking about this, but I'm not. You've got a brain under the cap you're wearing. Take care of the damned thing. Try to remember there's more to life than Vin Diesel and Tom Cruise. It wouldn't kill you to go to a movie once a month that has subtitles on the bottom of the screen. You can read them, you went to college, right?" -Stephen King, at the Commencement Speech at University of Maine, Orono
Masrûq – Sufficient as knowledge for a person is that he fears God, and sufficient as ignorance for a person is that he feels impressed with the knowledge he has.
HA!!! I love that one! Frank Herbert quotes (from his sundry books): "We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose." "Respect for the truth is the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing." "Often there is no need to tear off the arm to remove a splinter" "The universe often mixes the beautiful and the dangerous." "The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach." "It is human to have your soul brought to a crisis you did not anticipate." "Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power itself corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." "Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum." "Fear accompanies the possibility of death, calm shepherds its certainty" --Car D'Argo (Farscape) "We can judge the heart of man by his treatment of animals." --EMMANUAL KANT "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges / During times of war, the law falls silent." - Cicero "Fortune favors the bold" --Virgil "The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt." --Marcus Tullius Cicero, circa 63 B.C. "There is no problem that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives." ~String
************* M*W: "Tramps like us, baby we were born to run." ~ Bruce Springsteen "Life goes on, long after the thrill of livinf is gone." ~ John Mellencamp "You have to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run." ~ Kenny Rogers
A girl phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home. I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me. I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself. I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. Rodney Dangerfield
