  梁傑明 -INGÉNIEUR CHINOIS DE SIÈGE"Being nice is hard... someone jealous will always throw mud when you're nice." - Angry Boar, Major, Imperial Tang Cavalry "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." - William Congreve, "The Mourning Bride" (1697) "What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows." - Alexandra Stoddard "Culture. Use it or lose it." - Liang Jieming "Let a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness" - (1 Timothy 2:11) "The ruthless have always won and the benevolent have always failed." - General Chi Haotian "Women would rather be beautiful than intelligent, because men are more often stupid than blind"." - Yvonne Printemps "When the candles are out all women are fair." - Plutarch (A.D. 46 - 120), Morals "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain "Dare to be different, dare to be you... that is unless you are boring, then you're screwed." - Angry Boar, Major, Imperial Tang Cavalry "Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win." - Zhuge Liang, ca. 3rd century A.D. Prime Minister of Shu "Weak and exposed in appearance, but powerful when unleashed. One's reactions may start afterwards, but the response arrives there first." - Yu Niu, ca. 7th century B.C. "Guard your dreams; the dreams of the wise are not as beautiful as those of the fool." - Bandelaire "In strategy, no useless moves. In planning, no step in vain." - Chen Hao "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain" - Takeda Shingen "At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies." - P. G. Wodehouse "Always try and leave any place you're been to, anything you've touched... just a little... better." - Liang Jieming "If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." - Henry Ford "It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously." - H.L.Mencken "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Sir Winston Churchill "Just be You and be the best You that You can be! Everything else will then fall in place." - Liang Jieming "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 “There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” - Washington Irving "If you've nothing good to say, don't talk." - Chang Soo Fan “Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly” - Anonymous "I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light." - Delene, Mimbari Grey Council "Insufficient adversity dulls the mind." - Liang Jieming "Veni, vidi, vici" (Came, Saw, Conquered) - Roman Consul Julius Caesar, 47 B.C. "Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave." - Constantin Brancusi "The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable." - Confucius "If I don't feed you at home, I can't expect you to not eat out... so I better feed you." - a very smart wife "Claims of supremacy or primacy without comprehensive research or a wider understanding of history always sets one up for a shameful fall when the truth eventually emerges." - Liang Jieming "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Friends who don't impose upon or engage each other soon drift apart." - Leong Kit Meng "To see far is one thing, going there is another." - Constantin Brancusi "I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes... Wretched flocks of maids labour so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body" - Seneca the Younger (ca. 3 B.C. – 65 A.D., Declamations Vol. I). "Aim high. Higher than you can even possibly reach... so that even if you fail, you'd have reached even further than most other people would." - Leong Kit Meng "If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them." - Robert Graves "If you want to do something, do it well, or not at all." - Chang Soo Fan "I don't care where you get your appetite so long as you eat at home." - another very smart wife "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), American Journalist and Writer "History should be fun... and hands-on" - Liang Jieming "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows as lack of courage." - Confucius "The greater the adversity, the brighter the spark of opportunity." - Talon Karde, smuggler, terrorist and gambler "When you love someone, you are strong... but when you are loved by someone, you are inspired!" - Liang Jieming "I fear not death so much as I fear not being able to live." - Liang Jieming "It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs." - Confucius "It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years." - Abrahim Lincoln "There's no discount in love. Give all... or nothing." - Liang Jieming "Sometimes you'll step in Shit, but while you can wash your shoe and move on, the Shit will remain nothing but Shit." - Angry Boar, Major, Imperial Tang Cavalry "Virtue never stands alone. It is bound to have neighbours." - Confucius "...the female of the species is more deadly than the male." - Rudyard Kipling "Have pride... not arrogance." - Liang Jieming  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Happy Lunar New Year 4709 (Gregorian Calender 2012) Everyone!
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