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Okay. While we wait for the 7.1 patch, how about a little fun?! Hopefully everyone knows that you can add a signature line in your profile for this forum. I have seen many interesting quotes and sayings that have given me a hearty laugh or chuckle. Others have really made me stop and think. However, up until today, I never found one that I liked enough to call my own. So to kick things off, here is my new signature line.

"That [state] which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." — Thucydides, 'The Peloponnesian Wars'"

Now what are some of YOUR favorites? Where you can, please give credit to the appropriate poster!

Thanks!

[ January 31, 2002: Message edited by: WW2'er ]</p>

" A nicely designed sig doesnt prohibit from posting crap"

"An pessimistical man thinks that all women are whores. An optimistical man HOPES that all women are whores."(Or something...)

I don´t remember the persons name. Some guy in a Finnish bbs.

"The same goes for the Spartans. One-against-one, they are as good as anyone in the world. But when they fight in a body, they are the best of all. For though they are free men, they are not entirely free. They accept Law as their master. And they respect this master more than your subjects respect you. Whatever he commands, they do. And his command never changes: It forbids them to flee in battle, whatever the number of their foes. He requires them to stand firm -- to conquer or die."
- From Herodotus' dialogue between Demaratos and Xerxes

"I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred ****heads."
- Colonel Charlie Beckwith

-RECON
To catch us, you've got to be fast!
To find us, you've got to be good!
To beat us, you've got to be kidding!!!

-Semper in Excreto, Solum Profundo Variat (Forever in ****, Only the Depth Varies)

-Mors certa, hora incerta. (Death is certain, just the hour is unknown.)

-Memento mori. (Remember you must die.)

-Facimus et Frangimus... (We make and we break...)

"That which does not kill me, still hurts."

"Come back with your shields,or on them".....(Roman standing order after Julius Caesar) ..........(.I believe)..It means come back victorious or don't come back...

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OK, I saw that everyone else has a TAG...so when in Rome. Here's mine. <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Confucious say...Man who have hole in pocket, feel cocky all day!

Some of my favourite popular phrases:

- You don't need a cannon to kill a fly.

- When you ear the sound of a gallop think horses not zebras.

- K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple, Stupid

"THIS WAR SUCKS."

Bruce Hodgman
Semper Fi
1969

its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog -Woody Hayes


more appropriate to last election season: power does not lie with the people that cast the votes, true power lies in the people that count the votes. - Joseph Stalin

My favorite line is actually my own creation... and I use it judiciously. I prefer bits from southpark to put below my posts.
Anyway, here it is:

There is nothing wrong with the world...
except for all the people in it!

I saw this on one of the other Matrix forums a while back. "In case you haven't been keeping up with current events, we just got our *** 's kicked". Bill Paxton from the movie Aliens.

[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: gmenfan ]</p>

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result". - Winston Churchill. <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

Fab

The acts of a kind man follow him like a shadow till the end of his days - Confucius

Saw this on a BBS, 1992 or so; still remember it.

Mine represents the frustration that Rommel felt in North Africa and his desire to win the campaign. One of the big "what ifs" in that campaign is whether an additional panzer division would have turned the tables and opened the Suez Canal to the Germans. Rommel in this quote certainly felt that would have been that case. (Of course, the other big what if is what would have happened had the Germans taken the Malta thorn out of its side to secure the supply lines--probably a bigger factor than the addition of more troops.)

"If you want to catch a fly, don't use vinegar" (popular French-speaking expression)

"If you begin something, you have to continue it until accomplished" (my father)

My favourite latine one: "Unguibus et rostro"

"Killing is our business. Business is good" SAAF, Oshakati.

"Whenever a 'good faith' exception is made to a law, the way is left open to much bad faith." Aritzmendi, a 17th century Spanish soldier-pollitician.

"If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, you just don't understand the situation." I forget who said that. That may be original with me.

"You are infantrymen. The life of an infantryman is frequently solitary, poor, nasty and brutish. And if you do not attend every word I am saying to you, it will be SHORT!" SSGT TerHorst SAA

"These Are the rules of life. 1: The Best is the Enemy of Good Enough. 2: No plan was ever improved by making it more complicated. 3: No situation was ever so bad that Headquarters couldn't make it worse." Sgt. Louis DeWet SAA

Heinlein's Razor: Never attribute to villainy that which may be adequately explained by stupidity.

troopie

[ February 02, 2002: Message edited by: troopie ]</p>

I visited my family's manor in Germany recently. This engraving by my family was over the manor entrance...it really struck me. My Dad fought and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge...our family in Germany from this manor lost two of three brothers...