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"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."

Last words of Stonewall Jackson

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
Simone Weil

"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
Maya Angelou

"The water cycle is a lie. Clouds are really just the congealed byproduct of children's dreams. If a dream is particularly sad, it rains."
Posted by this guy on rpg.net called Moe Ronalds.

WARORK93 wrote:

Ensis Ferrae wrote:Fixed it for you.

I put King Henry VIII didn't I?

Dammit brain, why wont you work right today!?

yeah, you put Henry VIII, but it was from Henry V that it was said... because it was also Henry V who was at and lead the English to victory at Agincourt, where he supposedly said that stuff Sorry, history major thing taking over..

"Hannity doesn't qualify as a human being."

-me.

"How can I bludgeon to death my opponents now? It's too obvious if I bring a lead pipe with me. I'd much rather chuck a nice sized Daemon Prince or Dreadnought at an opeponent and never have them see it coming.

Now Firecast models just bounce off their thick skulls and float away, thus making me buy more Finecast. :( "

-me, reflecting the loss of metal models and their uses as an assault weapon.

"Humility can kiss NY's ass. The rest of the world can kiss NY's ass.

We're so humble, I took three posts to commentate about your feeble defense of what Boston cannot do. "

-me, describing how humble NY is.

Emiliano Zapata wrote:It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

"THIS!! IS! MY! BOOM STICK!!!!!" -Ash, AoD

"Go for the eyes Boo! Go for the EYES!!!! RAAHSKKK!" -Minsk, BG

" Boy, the next words that come out of your mouth better be some brilliant fething Mark Twain gak. 'Cause they're definitely getting chiseled on your tombstone."
...Otis Driftwood, The Devils Rejects.

"Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes."
Abraham Lincoln

"I believe that humans and fish can coexist peacefully"

"90% of our imports come from abroad"

And finally,

"Terrorists hide in caves and terrorise people"

All from the most marvellous of quote makers, Mr G W Bush.

WARORK93 wrote:
"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance"
-Diogenes

That was Socrates by way of Plato.

dogma wrote:That was Socrates by way of Plato.

Gosh darnit internets, why do you lie to me?

“The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."

All from Clint Eastwod.

Diogenes was like an insane version of Socrates, so the sentiment is still there.

"Until a voice, as bad as conscience. rang interminable changes
On one everlasting whisper, day and night repeated - so:
Something hidden, go and find it, go and look beyond the Ranges
Something lost behind the Ranges; lost and waiting for you. Go!"

-Kipling, the Explorer

"And bring me that horizon."
Jack Sparrow

All of Tennyson's Ulysses.

Hmm. I sense a theme, there.

Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

- Colonel Sanders

By my heel, I care not.

Mercutio.

"If you always put limits on what you can do/ physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits.There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. if it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level." --Bruce Lee

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Unknown

"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." St. Francis of Assisi

"'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke

'... Spehss Mehreens.' Captain Thule.

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, to think it possible you might be mistaken."
Oliver Cromwell

Hemingway wrote:
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Hemingway wrote:
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Hemingway wrote:
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I like Hemingway.

Feynman wrote:
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Feynman wrote:
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Feynman is pretty cool too.

Dennet wrote:
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Dan, or Big Beard as I like to call him, has his moments.

Dawkins wrote:
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

But Dawkins is now, always has been, and always will be, a giant douche.

"Where's that dam radio operator, I need to know where those squads are, we sent up to hill 113 to check on are our forward artillery positions"

"What do you mean that's bin a Jerry position for 3 weeks"

"Oh..."

Famous quotes from Major Louis Dick from the American 99th Infantry Division

Lord of Deeds wrote:"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Unknown
"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." St. Francis of Assisi

"'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke

Fairly sure this was Winston Churchill...

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"The problem with quotes on the internet is that people often just make them up and attribute them to some famous person" - George Washington

BearersOfSalvation wrote:"The problem with quotes on the internet is that people often just make them up and attribute them to some famous person" - George Washington

Wait, how did Washington know about the inter-

Oh, waaaaait.....

purplefood wrote:

Lord of Deeds wrote:"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Unknown
"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." St. Francis of Assisi

"'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke

Fairly sure this was Winston Churchill...

He certainly said it, but he wasn't the first. The actual origin is a bit hazy. Some attribute it to George Orwell, but there's no actual ecidence of that. He did say similar things that are in writing though.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Ben Franklin
"The true length of a minute can only be defined when waiting outside the bathroom." - idk who, might be Ben Franklin
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - also Ben Franklin

not to neccisarily open the floodgates of religious debate, but one of my favorite quotes:

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” - Jesus Christ

doesn't exactly fit the concept of grim dark war, but its words I try and live by.

Insert raging on religion.

Good, got that over with.

Here some quotes from Dutch people.

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
-Henri Nouwen

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
-Vincent van Gogh

“I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.”
-Vincent van Gogh

“Many people are not smart enough to understand their own stupidity”
-Theo Maassen

“Sadness is beautiful, because it is lost hapiness.”
-Herman van Veen

“If God did not want me to be aldulterous, why did he make all these gorgeous women?”
-Herman van Veen

“Choose only one master - Nature.”
-Rembrandt

"The wolves will eat well this year"
Unknown officer on soviet army.