..... for your delectation, O wise forum members.

"A list of quotations.... can never be complete" ROBERT M. HAMILTON

"The law to him is like a foul black cobweb to a spider, he makes it his dwelling and a prison to entangle those shall feed him" JOHN WEBSTER

"Ambition is a great man's madness, that is not kept in chains and close pent up rooms, but in fair lightsome lodgings and is girt with the wild noise of prattling visitants - which makes it lunatic beyond all cure" JOHN WEBSTER

"O beware, my lord, of jealously! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on" BILLY SHAKESPEARE

"There is no spectacle more agreeable than to watch an old friend fall from a roof top" CONFUCIUS

"I don't know what I may seem to the world. But to myself I seem only to have been like a small boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me" SIR ISAAC NEWTON

"Riots are the language of the unheard" MARTIN LUTHOR KING

"Kill a man and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a god" JEAN ROSTARD

"I only wish all of Rome had just one neck, so I could cut off all of their heads with one blow" EMPEROR CALIGULA

"Man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for" T.S. ELIOT

"They spoke very loudly when they said their laws were made for everybody; but we learned that, though they expected us to keep them, they thought nothing of breaking them themselves. They told us not to drink whiskey, yet they made it and traded it to us for furs and robes until both were nearly gone. Their wise ones said we might have their religion, but when we tried to understand it we discovered that there were too many kind of religion among white men." PLENTY COUPS, Crow Chief

"It's better to have tried than just to have sat there waiting" MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

"You are either alive and proud, or dead" STEVE BIKO

"Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions" MARK TWAIN

"the worst part of having success is trying to find someone who is happy for you" BETTE MIDLER

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great" MARK TWAIN

"Sleep..... those little slices of death. How I loathe them" EDGAR ALLAN POE

"All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity" FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"The Devil can quote scripture for his purpose" SHAKESPEARE

"Hokahey! A good day to fight. A good day to die. Strong hearts to the front, weak hearts to the rear" CRAZY HORSE, before Little Big Horn

"I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, Head of the Manhatton Project

"I am in the third circle, filled with cold. Unending, heavy and accursed rain; its measure and its kind are never changed. Gross hailstones, water grey with filth and snow, come streaking down across the shadowed air. The earth, as it receives that shower, stinks" DANTE, 'Inferno'

"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to
them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters" GENGHIS KHAN

"We Mongols believe that there is only one God, by whom we live and through whom we die. But just as God gives us the different fingers of the hand, so he gives men diverse ways. God gave you the scriptures, and you do not keep them. he gave us soothsayers, we do what they tell us, and we are strong" MANGKU KHAN

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you" FRIEDRICH NIETZCSCHE

"'Tis true my form is something odd, but blaming me is blaming God,
Could I create myself in you, I would not fail in pleasing you.
If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The Mind is the measure of the man" JOHN MERRICK, the Elephant Man

"Never give in, never, never, never, never." WINSTON CHURCHILL

"It is the greatest art of the Devil, to convince us that he doesn't exist" BAUDELAIRE

"You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone" AL CAPONE

"In fighting, one learns how to avoid fighting" BRUCE LEE

"Look what those bastards have done to Wales. They've take our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our houses and only live in them for a fortnight every twelve months. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English - and that's who you're playing this afternoon" PHIL BENNETT, Welsh rugby team talk 1977

"Life for life. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe" EXODUS, 12:23

"The word has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical pygmies" US General, OMAR BRADLEY

"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish" JULIUS CAESAR

"All modern revolutions have ended in reinforcement of the State. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic" ALBERT CAMUS

"You have not have thirty years experience, you have had one year's experience thirty times" J.L. CARR

"I shall be an autocrat, that is my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me, that's his" Empress CATHERINE THE GREAT

"The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one" ADOLF HITLER

"Every Communist must grasp the truth, Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" MAO TSE-TUNG

"When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic and therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me, and the Protestand Church - and there was nobody left to be concerned" MARTIN NIEMOLLER

""There is one way never to see your country lost, and that is to die in the last ditch" KING WILLIAM III