"It seemed like a good idea at the time"
Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven

"we're done sharing"

-jack [from the t.v. show '24']

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Akhenaton

"Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart, and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea."
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

This was on the wall at my Eskrima teacher's house where we trained.
http://www.lordtonymackenzie.com/desiderata.html

"don't forsake the commandments of god to keep those of man"
wisdom of the desert fathers
-thomas merton (paraphrased)

context: one father prepared food for a visitor when he was supposed to be fasting.
this was his response to a harsh critic.

I think this is from a sambo gym but i cant be sure, but regardless it does the business.



Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not: The world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
—Anonymous

Don't know who said this or if I've mangled it to some extent, but the gist is right:

"The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel"

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill

Roadkill,
i've heard that Winston Churchill said another hysterical thing to
some toffy nosed person--or other, who had just accused him of
being drunk:

"madam, you are ugly...and in the morning i'll be sober"

I think I'll be able to use that in the future

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75"
Benjamin Franklin

"And this is the trial:
They shall play with such weapons as they profess to teach withal,
three bouts apiece with three of the best English masters of defence &
three bouts apiece with three unskillful valiant men, and three bouts apiece
with three resolute men half drunk. Then if they can defend themselves
against these masters of defence, and hurt, and go free from the rest,
then are they be honored, cherished, and allowed for perfect good teachers,
and what countrymen soever they be. But if any of these they take fail,
then they are imperfect in their profession, their fight is false, &
they are false teachers, deceivers and murderers, and to be punished accordingly,
yet no worse punishment unto them I wish, than such as in their trial they
shall find".

George Silver. Paradoxes of Defence. London. 1599