The Quitter, by Robert Service

When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child,
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and ... die.
But the Code of a Man says" `Fight all you can,'
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow ...
It's the hell-served-for-breakfast that's hard.

`You're sick of the game!' Well, now, that's a shame.
You're young and you're brave and you're bright.
`You've had a raw deal!' I know -- but don't squeal,
Buck up, do your damndest, and fight.
It's the plugging away that will win you the day,
So don't be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit:
It's the keeping-your-chin-up that's hard.

It's easy to cry that you're beaten -- and die;
It's easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight --
Why, that's the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try -- it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

Excellent...here is one of my favorites:

The Devil followed them in respectful silence. Satan was no longer the master of this hell on earth. One Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry, had taken over...

And another of theirs:

Fighting for peace is like f**king for virginity...

Ah, yes, Nick it is.

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Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

"Europe sucks cause France is there"
-Odin's Underling on SOCNET
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
- Bertie C. Forbes

"Satisfaction lies in th effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
- Napolean Hill

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
- Hubert Humphrey

"The Russian Police,...stern...stern, but fair"

-Partyboy

"Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
John 15:13

--"EXCUSES ARE LIKE ***HOLES, EVERYBODY HAS'EM AND THEY ALL STINK"--

Not that I take this one to heart by any means, but sometimes relaxing is good:

"I did nothing...and it was everything I thought it could be." - Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) Office Space

"I bent my wookie"
"The doctor said if I just kept my finger out of my nose it would stop bleeding"
"It tastes like burning"
"I choo choo choose you"
- Ralph Wiggum -

Now for the more serious side...

"I have never seen a wild thing sorry for itself;
A bird will drop frozen dead from the bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
- e.e.cummings -

And of course, my favorite...

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
- T.E.Lawrence -

"Just because I'm on a diet doesn't mean I can't look at the menu"
--Married man checking out women

"Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin amoung the great number who are not good" (Machiavelli, 1469-1527)

"Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy" (Kautilya third century B.C.)

"Weak people never give way when they ought to" (Cardinal de Retz, 1613-1679)

"If that cat had nine lives, he just spent them all" (Cousin Eddie, Christmas vaction)

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, nor spake, nor moved their eyes...it had been strange, even in a dream, to see those dead men rise...

water water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink...water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink...

He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, greybeard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

Day after day, day after day, we stuck nor breath nor motion...as idle as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean...

He went like one that hath been stunned and is of sense forlorn...a sadder and a wiser man, he rose the 'morrow morn...

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Luke 13:24

If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.

"If you sell a man a fish.. then that's good business. If you teach a man to fish.. you just put yourself out of a job you freakin dumbass!"

Famous last words:
"Don't worry I know what I'm doing"

Speaking of fishing...

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll drink beer all day."

If you are up to your mouth in $hit, keep it shut! - John Wayne

"The swiss...you know you can't trust an army that has a wine opener on their knife. - "Many of you men have never opened Chardonnay under fire!" - "
- Robin Williams

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother."

Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act IV, Scene 3

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"I have never seen a wild thing sorry for itself;
A bird will drop frozen dead from the bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
- e.e.cummings -
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Isn't that DH Lawrence?

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"I have never seen a wild thing sorry for itself;
A bird will drop frozen dead from the bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
- e.e.cummings -
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Isn't that DH Lawrence?
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Let's all be honest here. As far as most of us ar concerned that quote is from Master Chief John James Urgayle
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(any of you who knew the quote before the movie....no offense intended)

Read all of the Posts . Great Stuff. this one was told to me by a good friend.
"The Man in the Glass"
When you get what you want in your struggle for self, and the world makes you King for a day. Just go a mirror and look at yourself, and see that that man has to say.
For it isn’t your father, mother or wife whose judgment you must pass, the fellow whose verdict counts most in your life, is the one staring back from the glass.

A similar aspect of that would be..."Only a fool who judges life by what he sees in other people's eyes"
-The song Monster by Strung Out -

[]"Guns cause crime like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat!"

- Unknown - [/]

I think that was Dennis Miller.

"Execute, or Execute" my boss

on the GI Jane thought process.....
"...remember lieutenant, there are no bad crews; just bad leaders."....Master Chief John James Urgayle


Mark K

Here are a few of my favorites,

"'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them."
-David Borenstein, 1996

"He who stands on tiptoes does not stand firm. He who stretches his legs does not walk easily. Thus he who displays himself does not shine. He who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged. He who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed him."
-Lao Tzu

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
-Henry Ford

"It is intrinsic to the character of a hero to be the last person to ever consider himself a hero."
-That Others May Live

TV shows don't create serial killers, Canceling TV Shows does!

"MOVE OUT AND DRAW FIRE"

My Platoon Sergeant in Korea.

"WE SHALL BRING YOU TO JUSTICE OR BRING JUSTICE TO YOU"

"I wasn't born with enough middle fingers!"

"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."- General George Patton Jr

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George Patton Jr

"A man's got to know his limitations."
-Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry

"Sometimes nothin's a real cool hand..."

Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

I have come to kick as* and chew bubble gum. Im all out of bubble gum.
-Some movie

Bun is neither meat nor cheese.
I believe a Wendy's ad.

Adventure.... excitement..... a jedi seeks not such things.
Yoda

I am a soldier. I fight where I'm told. I win where I fight.
General George Patton Jr.

Optimism is true moral courage.
Ernest Shakleton

Just f***in RELAX, SIR!!
-Cadre

"A strong man does not need to know the future....he makes his own." - Solid Snake

"If it bleeds, we can kill it." -Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Predator", 1987

Inscription on a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK" Seen in Ashland, New Hampshire

I've learned - that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do, is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.

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"Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory last forever." - Shane Falco, The Replacments.

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Solid Snake? haha. Thats a good one. I can't wait til MGS3 comes out.

I got one from this kid in my fire academy class.
"The only difference between him and a bucket of sh*t is the bucket."

"Sh*t happens." - One of the all time best for every scenario.

Explaining SAR Security Team actions to US Army Rangers during Joint Readiness Training, circa 1990:

"Remember men, slow is smooth and smooth is fast."

MSgt Butch McCumber, USAF Pararescue, Retired

"It's not all blow-jobs and shoot-outs"

Joe Rheinhart, Senior FBI Special Agent
explaining the daily workings of the job to new agents.

"Results, not excuses".

Keith Edwards, CCT, 24 STS Silver Team
to anybody and everybody any time they whined, complained or spoke to him for that matter.

"Silence is arguement carried out by other means."
~ Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~ Albert Einstein

"Pressure makes diamonds"
~ General Patton

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
~ President Eisenhower

let's see:

"Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious" Oscar Wilde

"War is the engine of History" Unknown

"Think globally, carpet bomb locally" Unknown

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy s**t...what a ride!"
Bill-"baron of breathhold", deeperblue forums

"dude, if the nachos are stuck together, that counts as one nacho"- Jack Black

"I would like to live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were ever supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever." -- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss Universe contest

"After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post." -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." -- David Dinkins, mayor of New York City

"I've never had major knee surgery on any part of my body." -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -- Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

"its easier to ask for forgiveness, then permission"
Airman leadership school instructor

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-T.E. Lawerence

"always three sides to the story his, hers, and the truth.."
good friend-
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