"A man should be able to design a building, program a computer, change a diaper and orchestrate a war. Specialization is for insects." Lazarus Long.

"Ab Obice Saevior" motto: Clan Galbraith.

"The strength that endures is the kind that comes with scars."

"Hell was not built to keep men out." Anon.

"Before all else, be armed." Niccolo Machiavelli.

"There is nothing so comforting in a dark room, as three feet of cold steel." Robert Anson Heinlein, Patriot.

"A tricky bit of whimsy is happiness."

"Clearly, we're a lot who communicate best up close and personal." Lena V., Highland Assassin.

"...talkin' part's done..." Dad.

"Libertas Per Abyssum." Anon.

"He's a Galbraith. They don't fall down, you have to KNOCK them down." Greg of Clan Iain Abrach MacIain at SLO 2007.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Shakespeare - Hamlet.

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." W. B. Yeats.

"There's a special place in Hel for optimists."

"All your base are belong to us." Zero Wing.

"Cave Simia"

"I am become death, the shatterer of worlds."
Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity 1945

"A vita vacuus pondera
Est vacuus substantia."

"I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star." Friedrich Nietzche.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." W. B. Yeats.

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." Mark Twain.

"...he dies in the end." Bob.

"Every wise man started out by asking many questions." Fortune Cookie Wisdom.

"You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time." Zero Wing.

"You're going to look real colorful after I shit you out."

"The Celts of ancient Ireland are folk the Gods made mad,
For their battles all are merry and their songs all are sad." Anon.

"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." W. B. Yeats.

"Allen baby, I love you dearly; but if there were two of you, I'd kill you both." Mom.

"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." William Blake.

"Well yeah. I was just sitting here, eating my muffin, drinking my coffee, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity." Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction.

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." Albert Einstein.

"I would rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." Bumper Sticker Wisdom.

"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots." W. B. Yeats.

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain.

Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is The Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction.

"There is no room for sedition in a company of brothers." Coach Terry Kelly.

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally." Niccolo Machiavelli.

"When in a room full of people, it is always wise to remember the following:
1. You are surrounded by a group of highly evolved predators.
2. The only things keeping those predators in check are Selfishness and Common Courtesy."

"Good, bad; I'm the guy with the gun." Ash - Army of Darkness.

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober." W. B. Yeats.

"Allen, when it comes to women, I can only give you this piece of advice: You chase 'em 'til they catch you." Dad.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill.

"The success of a man is measured, not by how high he climbs, but by how high he bounces after he hits the bottom." Gen. George Patton.

"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground." Theodore Roosevelt.

"Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne.

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." Niccolo Machiavelli.

“A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.” Stephen Crane.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzche.

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Gen. George Patton.

"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue." Ambrose Bierce.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." Leonardo da Vinci.

"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself." W. B. Yeats.

"I'm not mean.
You're just a sissy." Monique pin.

"My world is a swirling cacophony of entropic geekery."

"Nemo me impune lacesset." Gadsden flag.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." Mark Twain.