Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[WmBlackstone]

For Martial Artists

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.
~from the "Hagakure", the book of the Samurai

[BoarSpear]

"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights." ~ H.L. Mencken~

"The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ~ H.L. Mencken~

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." ~ H.L. Mencken~

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." ~ H.L. Mencken~

[BoarSpear]

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~ H.L. Mencken~

[BoarSpear]

"To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason." ~ H.L. Mencken~

[treelizard]

"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is
attempted." -Samuel Smiles

"If you don't play, you can't win." (who said this?)

[treelizard]

Out of every hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one...one of them is a warrior...and he will bring the others back.--Heraclitus, 5 B.C.

[treelizard]

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here I am. Send Me.

Isaiah 6:8

[Piston]

The grass is always greener, where the dogs are shitting.

Chris Cornell

[chalambok]

Note the date

"The storm will soon sweep by, and Time will be my vindicator." - Sam Houston, April of 1829

[chalambok]

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." - Nicholas Murray Butler

[gltnk71]

it is better to be silent and thought stupid, than to speak and prove it beyond all doubt............... popular

[EmptyneSs]

" Though we bleed, we must push on....."

[Aikido_Girl918]

taken from a member of Budoseek:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

These were put up on e-budo about 2-3 years ago. Still laughable even today.

Zen philosophy to "enlighten" your day...

1.Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just leave me the hell alone.

2.The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a
leaky tire.

3.It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your
neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

4.Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

5.No one is listening until you make a mistake.

6.Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

7.Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

8.It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

9.It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities
without your help.

10.If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

11.Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

12.If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

13.Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and
he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.

14.If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was
probably worth it.

15.Don't squat with your spurs on.

16.If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

17.If you drink, don't park. Accidents cause people.

18.Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.

19.Good judgement comes from bad experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

20.The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

21.Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

22.A closed mouth gathers no foot.

23.Duct tape is like the force: it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

24.There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

25.Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.

26.Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

[Warrior189]

"Mess with da best. Bleed with da rest."

"Mortal Kombat!!!!!!!"

[Warrior189]

"You **** with me, you fucking with the best!!!!" -Scarface