Some of my favorite quotes.
Edited 2025-01-06

"The saddest sight, next to a battlefield lost, is a battlefield won" (actually: "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won".) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, in a dispatch from Waterloo, 1815.

"1+1=3 with unusually large values of 1". Math, seen as a sig on net.

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
― Thucydides

"Keresztény jótévősegünkben higyjünk minden emberről jót; pénz-kereskedés, alkotmány dolgából mindenkiről pedig a legrosszabbat". Széchenyi István

"The higher climbs the monkey, the more it shows its ass". Source uncertain, several candidates.

"Morality is above the law, and we must never forget this". Alexandr Soltsynitsin

"A strong man can handle a strong woman, a weak man will say she has an attitude". Sonya Parker

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed". Albert Einstein

"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours; if it doesn't, it never was". Source unknown

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue". Barry Goldwater

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly". Friedrich Nietzsche

"Peace is better than war; in peace the sons bury their fathers, in wars the fathers their sons". Croesus

"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers!" Pablo Picasso

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions". Justice William O. Douglas

"The more we proceed, the more we lead." Eric Laffoon

Nolite Te Bastardes Corborondum (don't let the bastards wear you down) The Handmaid’s Tale

"Nous n'héritons pas de la terre de nos parents, nous l'empruntons à nos enfants." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"One has eaten the full meaning of life when willing to plant a tree under which one knows full well that one will never sit." Source unknown, many candidates

"Embrace, extend, and exterminate" Microsoft

"The true measure of a man's character, is how he treats those who can do nothing for him". Seen in a forum by OzDozer

“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.” Stephen King, The Dark Tower

"An hour passes slowly, but the years go by quickly" ..unknown origin

"You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks." Jesus

"Self-dependent power can time defy, as rocks resist the billows and the sky" ..old english

"Only in pursuit of impossible perfection can we achieve excellence" ..many sources, I heard something like this from Greg Wooldridge, 3-times lead pilot of the Blue Angels.

And my own, mostly sigs from years past

Some people cannot think outside the box, forever complaining that they cannot find it.
Source of all that is, hear my humble prayer for my wife and children, our loved ones, those who have passed before us and the broken ones that no one else is praying for. Keep your flock in grace, safety and good health, free us from falsehood and defeat the hands that ply unholy schemes. Shepherd of all who breathe, deliver your lambs from the beast, right the wrong, and guide my every step.
Once we separate 'reward for work done' from the popular concept of profit which has been engineered to include it, then profit does in fact revert to being a very dirty word.
Known only to a few insiders at the time, what David actually said upon seeing Goliath was: "Shit, this sucker will need a big box!"
Those so eager to go to war are usually either sub-human scrap or have never seen combat, but there are those exceptions who have learned from vets that killing is harder than dying because you survive it.
Sooner than later all the Co2 reduction just causes gas to hit $100/liter and food production to become limited to weed-killer resistant GMO seeds; whoopie shit... hurrah for EXXON & MONSANTO or WTF.
Interests: dogs, music, nature, animals, trees, diesels, tractors, theology, biology, economy, bacteria skunks, and humanity ..in that order.
Who, has loved us more?
People used to more polite when dueling was legal.
N2M (Notice To Merchants): if any part of our communication before, during or after a transaction with you is routed to any 3rd party like Googmole or Faecesbuch or such other without my explicit consent each time then you will learn a lot about me and about marketing, but you will never smell my money.
War is the school of peace.
Whereas socialism can be seen as a set of christian values with the credit for its invention being hijacked and granted to satanists running amok in state dictatorships, Caposocialism is the reverse perversion of those values in a jungle free-for-all that sees a parasitic capital as the sole beneficiary at the expense of the taxpayers.
Heaven is the butterfly that the caterpillar cannot imagine, much less aspire to become, or any one of countless and timeless instants from which everyone is always on vacation to strange places like today. Jesus tried to tell us that it is here, now, today, already within us.
Hope is the darkest hour of the night, just before sunrise.
Small steps keep us on the path but it's the big ones that move vistas.
Ain't but five things in life worth fighting for, namely these four: sex, loot, and the freedom to pursue high ideals!
Fender have made the world's greatest electric guitars, but they've not yet managed a Stratovarius.
Standing proudly in the dark, I used to know nothing; now kneeling in the light, I know a little less.
There is but one ultimately effective exponent: it is the power of Good.
If DIY were a religion, hmmm ...I just made it one.
A world of true wonders is that of theories where all manner of exotica may be found, exclusively, as in some form of intellectual Africa.
Anonymity is the sole reliable witness of real society, be the image good or bad, and of free speech, two things without which the truth cannot be known but the intent of those opposing them can.
I can only shake my head in disbelief whenever I hear creationists arguing with evolutionists. I'd sooner be a man descendant of a monkey possibly created by a Creator than be one of these, monkey descendants of man.
Artificial Stupidity will never be competitive.
The Holy Land is not some dusty shithole spread in the near and never far away enough east, instead it is where the land itself is holy, where agriculture does not bleed and foam at the mouth from chemicals on the altar of multinational leeches but rather flowers as the living manna of human health, dignity, and bliss.
There is an ancient culture that few give credit to yet it is the one that all other cultures rose from, it is the one that gave mankind and all of these other cultures a license to live: agriculture.
The greatest threat of Artificial Intelligence will not come from Satan's machination but from humans, when sooner than later Political-Correctness will seem like a joke compared to AI-Correctness!
AI is upon us and could exterminate what is human quality in our lives so the fight is ON! Laws in every country MUST require producers of goods and services using AI to publicly declare that fact up front prior to EVERY sale, application or delivery. But this will not happen because AI is already defending against it, just try!
Giving women the vote was long overdue but that delay also guaranteed the predictably overshooting swing to left which followed it. We are now in the returning-pendulum phase where a correction-back is framing decades to come. It is not a qualitative event, it simply is, until it swings the other way again.
Sin is the religious word for betraying the source of that miraculous gift we know as life.
Stars are candles in the forest. They are part of what we see in the universe; the other parts are the trees that may prevent us from seeing either.
Forever is a circle.
Heaven, was never a democracy.
We live in the epoch of total credibility meltdown; everyone is lying about everything all the time
The secret of a lasting marriage lies in introductions; whenever I introduce my wife I say: "do meet my better half, my first wife."
Either you get on top of IT, or IT will get on top of you.
My answer to EEE: Mondays I boot and update mostly Artix, on Tuesdays Devuan, on Wednesdays Slackware, on Thursdays Tumbleweed, on Fridays Void-Linux.
Back in the day I was using IBM's Boot-Manager and Lilo to boot Windows, Warp or Linux. I even had those two BM's booting one another for a hilarious screensaver. I resent monopolies so now it's seven systems for me, ALL of them Linux.
Buying foreign is an expense, buying domestic is an investment.
Oh Lord of the Keyrings on high, have I got bad news for you: the word trust is nowhere to be found in my security dictionary.
I wuz against eugenics until I discovered the race of googlegoonies (http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ggborn.html
Few people really understand why the hindlick maneuver just plain works.
Internationalism is the opposite of globalism; the former recognizes diversity, the latter seeks to be a melting-pot.
Life's just like toilet paper, the closer to the end the faster it unrolls.