【Chat】 What's your favorite Proverb / Quote?

[ian8275 10]

"Life finds the way" - from Jurrassic Park

[kib60477 10]

Life does not consist mainly---or even largely---of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

by Mark Twain

[NRX 10]

To see is to believe.(H)

It's very funny.

[taiton03 10]

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

From <Stray Birds>

[turquoiseem 10]

Still waters run deep.

[L.H.O.O.Q. 10]

"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été." ---Albert Camus

In English: In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

[Krislih 10]

"Self improvment is masturbation, self destruction... that might be the answer."- Brad Pitt in Fight Club as Tyler

[uscagal1125 10]

-always have faith in urself

-seein is believin

-never give up!

[spacedunce-5 10]

"Amor est vitae essentia"...

If my Latin serves me well,

this means "Love is essential in life."

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"The pen is mightier than the sword." --Thomas Jefferson

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with the golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. " --W. B. Yeats "He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven"

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander." --T. E. Lawrence

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." --Jean de La Bruyère

Thank you Wikiquote! http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

[JudicatorW 10]

My favouite quote..

A penny saved is a penny earned ..

by benjamin franklin...

and another one is..

Arbeit Macht Frei

(it is quite offensive, tho)

[code789 10]

mine is

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SHXT happens:E

(can't type the S word here)

[MikiRei 10]

How about Murphy's 3rd law?

What can go wrong, will go wrong. :p

[spacedunce-5 10]

How about Murphy's 3rd law?

What can go wrong, will go wrong. :p

That brings to mind Murphy's Laws of War:

Murphy's Law of War: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And at the last possible moment.”

O'Neil's Law of Combat: “Murphy was an optimist.”

Murphy’s Laws of War:

1. You are not Superman.

2. Suppressive fire won’t.

3. If it’s stupid, but works, it’s not stupid.

4. Don’t look conspicuous. It draws fire.

5. Never draw fire. It makes everyone around you nervous.

6. When in doubt, empty the magazine.

7. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.

8. Always keep in mind that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

9. If your attack is going well, it’s an ambush.

10. If you can’t remember…the claymore is pointed at you. (The claymore is a flat mine that is set up and pointed at the enemy, unless you set it up the wrong way.)

11. All five-second grenade fuses are three seconds.

12. Try to look unimportant. The enemy may be low on ammo.

13. If you are forward of your position, the artillery will be short.

14. The enemy diversion you’re ignoring is the main attack.

15. The easy way is always mined.

16. The important things are always simple.

17. The simple things are always hard.

18. When you have secured an area, don’t forget to tell the enemy.

19. Incoming fire has the right of way.

20. No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.

21. No inspection-ready unit has ever passed combat.

22. Teamwork is essential. It gives the enemy other people to shoot at.

23. If the enemy is in range, so are you.

24. Friendly fire isn’t.

25. Anything you can do can get you shot…including doing nothing.

26. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in…and you can’t get out.

27. Tracers work both ways.

28. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

29. Radios will fail as soon as you need something desperately.

30. When both sides are convinced they are about to lose…they are both right.

31. Professionals are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.

32. All-weather close support doesn’t work in bad weather.

33. The bursting radius of a grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range.

34. The only terrain that is truly controlled is the terrain upon which you’re standing.

35. The law of the bayonet says the man with the bullet wins.

36. REMF (rear-echelon motherfuckers, or non-combat troops) is everywhere.

37. The best tank-killer is another tank. Therefore, tanks are always fighting each other…and have no time to help the infantry.

38. Precision bombing is normally accurate within plus/minus one mile.

39. Cluster bombs from B-52s and C-130s are very, very accurate. They always hit the ground.

40. Murphy was an 11 Bush (11B is the US Army job code for basic rifleman).

41. Perfect plans aren’t.

42. The easy way generally gets you killed.

43. The side with the fanciest uniforms loses.

44. Armored vehicles are bullet magnets, a moving foxhole that attracts attention.

45. If you are short of everything except enemy, you’re in combat.

46. No plan survives the first few seconds of combat.

47. Ammo is cheap; your life isn’t.

48. It’s easier to expend material in combat than to fill out the forms for Graves Registration.

49. If you can’t see the enemy, they still may be able to see you.

50. Final protective fire doesn’t.

51. You can win without fighting, but it’s a lot tougher to do. And the enemy may not cooperate.

52. Recoilless rifles aren’t.

(Taken from "How to Make War" by James F. Dunnigan)

[forlornha 10]

you laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're the same.

[evenstar 10]

Every man dies, but not every man really lives.

From Braveheart- and it's quite useful too. When I can't think of anything to say in my essay, I change those words around and it becomes a nice quote. XD

[MikiRei 10]

When I can't think of anything to say in my essay, I change those words around and it becomes a nice quote. XD

I'm SOOOOO glad I don't have to write anymore essays. *prays that she doesn't need to write any redundant reports in future but doubts it*

[spacedunce-5 10]

Personally, I think writing is fun! (non-redundant writing, that is)

It's a great way of getting things off your chest, or sharing something interesting when you don't know whom to share with.

Students in Taiwan know that we are to write weekly journals on a (duh) weekly basis.

Many think it's a waste of time, or they don't know what to write about, but to me, it's just like chatting, only you don't know who you're chatting with.

For instance, this week, I'm planning to write about how our English teacher let me teach a period for him because he had a sore throat. xd0_o

[MikiRei 10]

You've missed the point.

Writing to express yourself is obviously fun. Writing for EMPLOYERS who have not a single clue what you've been working your a** off for the past 6 months and will probably spend 3 minutes reading the report that you've spent 3 days writing is NOT fun at all.

[spacedunce-5 10]

Nobody is worth crying over; the one who is won't let you cry.

[Alvin 10]

Ah Bay-Bay

[火神之後翼 10]

"Live & Learn."

I choose this just because i found this in a song =.=

[棉花糖漏洞 10]

1.Don't bit more than you can chew.

2.Slow and steady wins the race.

[spacedunce-5 10]

Don't bit more than you can chew.

Bite.

[Richtu 10]

"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese."

(The first one got it's neck snapped by the mousetrap aiight?):P

"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now."

[azraelstar 10]

to be or not to be, that is the question.

xd my english class was reading Hamlet recently.