Quotes of great honor
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"The only good race pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die."
-Steve Roland Prefontaine
"Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic."
Albert Camus (From "The Rebel").
"If I were a proper brother-captain, I would know the prayer we are supposed to say. But I think you all know what we have to do. We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so bad that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial - carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won."
~-Alaric of the Grey Knights
-EDIT-
There is one further quote that has little to do with honor but that springs to mind every time a thread regarding swords of any sort is started here:
"That there are persons of mistaken ideas in almost every Art or Science, is what few will deny. Yet I am inclined to believe there are more erroneous opinions entertained with regard to the Art of using the Sword than on most other subjects."
-Joseph Roland
-Steve Roland Prefontaine
"Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic."
Albert Camus (From "The Rebel").
"If I were a proper brother-captain, I would know the prayer we are supposed to say. But I think you all know what we have to do. We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so bad that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial - carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won."
~-Alaric of the Grey Knights
-EDIT-
There is one further quote that has little to do with honor but that springs to mind every time a thread regarding swords of any sort is started here:
"That there are persons of mistaken ideas in almost every Art or Science, is what few will deny. Yet I am inclined to believe there are more erroneous opinions entertained with regard to the Art of using the Sword than on most other subjects."
-Joseph Roland
WALL OF TEXT! GO!
An officer who goes in to battle with out his sword is improperly dressed
- Jack Churchhill
'A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.'
-Cardinal Khrysdam, Instructum Absolutio
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak Address to the Council of Ryanti
"If you don't expect gratitude, you'll seldom be disappointed."
- Eyor Dedonki, Memoirs of a Pessimist.
"If your battle plan's working, it's probably a trap."
- Kolton Phae, On Military Matters
"Revenge is a dish best served with mayonnaise and those little cheesy things on sticks."
- Osric the Loopy
Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows for none.---Anon.
Success is measured in blood, yours or your enemy's.---Anon.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.---Anon.
Mercy is a sign of weakness.---Anon.
The enemy of my enemy dies next.
-Lord Solar Macharius, Maxims of the Eminent
"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way." -Jayne Mansfield
"Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise is optional. Growing up is out of the question"
I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make when they fly by. -Douglas Adams
"If ignorance is bliss, then this lesson would appear to be a deliberate attempt on your part to deprive me of my happiness, the pursuit of which is my unalienable rights according to the constitution; I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative not to know this material. I'll be on the playground." - Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes)
"Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain" -Winston Churchill
Success is the happy feeling you get between the time you do something and the time you tell a woman what you've done
-Dilbert
History is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever
"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
-George Carlin (1937-2008)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things then to take rank with those poor timid spirits who know neither victory or defeat"
-President Theodore Roosevelt
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ? D.H. Lawrence
"May those that accept their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory."
--Princess Tutu
Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
--Robert Heinlein
"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut."
--Stephen King, introduction to "Nightmares and Dreamscapes"
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Who knows why chickens do anything? They are mysterious and
deep-thinking creatures who function on a level far beyond our own.
We are to them as toads are to us, and we can never hope to grasp the
world as chickens see it any more than a toad can hope to work
complex algebraic equations. Most chickens disdain our intellectual
pretensions, despise our television programs, and mock our popular
culture. We have nothing in common with them -- except that they,
too, are beginning to wonder if Madonna is really all that interesting.
If we ponder the meaning of any chicken's actions, including those of
the one that crossed the road, we will only be filled with despair at
our inadequate analytic and perceptive abilities in the face of their
greatness.
--Dean Koontz
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
--Russell Baker
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
--Einstein
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict,
Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease".
Disraeli replied, "That all depends upon whether I embrace your
principals or your mistress
-?
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
-- Mark Twain
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
-- Capt David G. Farragut, USN
"OK, hold on now, so you're telling me that you put these little guys in boiling water and that they shriek and they turn red and they die?"
"Yes sir."
"That is the most metal thing I ever heard in my whole life. Highfive."
-Metalocalypse
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
--Albert Einstein
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
--Edgar A. Suter
"Guns don't kill people... but they sure do help"
-Paul Giamatti as Hertz in Shoot'em Up
"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get *****-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"
-Anderson Cooper
If the choice is between cowardice, and violence, I choose violence
-Ghandi
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and one does not vanquish evil by fleeing from it." - Colonel Cooper
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times. to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats"
-H.L. Mencken
Even if the film ends up being a complete waste of time at least I will have committed the line "Shabbat Shalom motherfuckers" to celluloid.
--Adam Goldberg on The Hebrew Hammer
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
-Thomas Szasz
An officer who goes in to battle with out his sword is improperly dressed
- Jack Churchhill
'A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.'
-Cardinal Khrysdam, Instructum Absolutio
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak Address to the Council of Ryanti
"If you don't expect gratitude, you'll seldom be disappointed."
- Eyor Dedonki, Memoirs of a Pessimist.
"If your battle plan's working, it's probably a trap."
- Kolton Phae, On Military Matters
"Revenge is a dish best served with mayonnaise and those little cheesy things on sticks."
- Osric the Loopy
Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows for none.---Anon.
Success is measured in blood, yours or your enemy's.---Anon.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.---Anon.
Mercy is a sign of weakness.---Anon.
The enemy of my enemy dies next.
-Lord Solar Macharius, Maxims of the Eminent
"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way." -Jayne Mansfield
"Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise is optional. Growing up is out of the question"
I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make when they fly by. -Douglas Adams
"If ignorance is bliss, then this lesson would appear to be a deliberate attempt on your part to deprive me of my happiness, the pursuit of which is my unalienable rights according to the constitution; I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative not to know this material. I'll be on the playground." - Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes)
"Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain" -Winston Churchill
Success is the happy feeling you get between the time you do something and the time you tell a woman what you've done
-Dilbert
History is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever
"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
-George Carlin (1937-2008)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things then to take rank with those poor timid spirits who know neither victory or defeat"
-President Theodore Roosevelt
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ? D.H. Lawrence
"May those that accept their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory."
--Princess Tutu
Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
--Robert Heinlein
"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut."
--Stephen King, introduction to "Nightmares and Dreamscapes"
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Who knows why chickens do anything? They are mysterious and
deep-thinking creatures who function on a level far beyond our own.
We are to them as toads are to us, and we can never hope to grasp the
world as chickens see it any more than a toad can hope to work
complex algebraic equations. Most chickens disdain our intellectual
pretensions, despise our television programs, and mock our popular
culture. We have nothing in common with them -- except that they,
too, are beginning to wonder if Madonna is really all that interesting.
If we ponder the meaning of any chicken's actions, including those of
the one that crossed the road, we will only be filled with despair at
our inadequate analytic and perceptive abilities in the face of their
greatness.
--Dean Koontz
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
--Russell Baker
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
--Einstein
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict,
Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease".
Disraeli replied, "That all depends upon whether I embrace your
principals or your mistress
-?
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
-- Mark Twain
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
-- Capt David G. Farragut, USN
"OK, hold on now, so you're telling me that you put these little guys in boiling water and that they shriek and they turn red and they die?"
"Yes sir."
"That is the most metal thing I ever heard in my whole life. Highfive."
-Metalocalypse
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
--Albert Einstein
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
--Edgar A. Suter
"Guns don't kill people... but they sure do help"
-Paul Giamatti as Hertz in Shoot'em Up
"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get *****-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"
-Anderson Cooper
If the choice is between cowardice, and violence, I choose violence
-Ghandi
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and one does not vanquish evil by fleeing from it." - Colonel Cooper
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times. to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats"
-H.L. Mencken
Even if the film ends up being a complete waste of time at least I will have committed the line "Shabbat Shalom motherfuckers" to celluloid.
--Adam Goldberg on The Hebrew Hammer
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
-Thomas Szasz
Well its not really honorable but its my absolute favorite quote:
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes"
Mazer Rackham in Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes"
Mazer Rackham in Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.
the proof is myself. I wouldnt be here right now if not for God. Its a very dark moment in my life. I'd rather not talk about it here but i gave me the courage to live and to believe. and i do not understand how the quote contradicts itself.Divine Miss Bee said:
Here are a few of my favourites...
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
-Charles C.Finn
Life is like riding a bicycle- in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein
?Happiness is like catching air in a jar. You think you have caught something so worthwhile, only it has been there all along.? (I'm not too sure where that one came from)
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
~Robert Brault
What lies before us, what lies behind us, are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- Unknown
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
-Charles C.Finn
Life is like riding a bicycle- in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein
?Happiness is like catching air in a jar. You think you have caught something so worthwhile, only it has been there all along.? (I'm not too sure where that one came from)
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
~Robert Brault
What lies before us, what lies behind us, are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- Unknown
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
-- William James
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others."
-- John Stuart Mill
-- William James
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others."
-- John Stuart Mill
Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it,
Life's a laugh and death's a joke it's true,
You'll see it's all a show, keep 'em laughing as you go,
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
From Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, from Monty Python's The Life of Brian, no truer words have ever been spoken in my opinion.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke it's true,
You'll see it's all a show, keep 'em laughing as you go,
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
From Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, from Monty Python's The Life of Brian, no truer words have ever been spoken in my opinion.
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" Shakespeare.
"Don't complain about the world, for you are born to change it." someone of the French revolutionaries.
"Don't complain about the world, for you are born to change it." someone of the French revolutionaries.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists ,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists ,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
"Where did you bury the chin mrs. Bradbury? WHERE DID YOU BURY THE CHIN!" - The victorian detective that lives inside my sense of self
"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
-George Carlin
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
-George Carlin
"If I have seen further than other men it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants". - Sir Isaac Newton
I'm not sure why I like this one, I just do...
I'm not sure why I like this one, I just do...
"From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother."
- St. Crispin's Day Speech, Henry V (act IV scene III)
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother."
- St. Crispin's Day Speech, Henry V (act IV scene III)
I know!
"quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur"
Roughly translated: "What is asserted without reason may be denied without reason."
"quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur"
Roughly translated: "What is asserted without reason may be denied without reason."
