Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
"Merde!" - Pierre Cambronne, at Waterloo
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Really?
I thought you were the superman of the antiquity! You should learn it then, it isn't that hard, and if you're student you have probably very good possibilities for it (and unique nobody bothers to learn it on their own). You don't have to master the language, just learning the basics is very valuable, as you can use dictionary and grammar in real life situations. Most people who learn it can't speak it and have difficulties in writing.And I'll have to add that I'm not good in Latin either, took the last course 7-8 years ago.
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
My last course was some 30 years ago ... and I can still show you young whippersnappers a thing or two!
Well grandpa, I guess back then all the education was in Latin... 
To keep it legal, two quotes attributed to Buddha, which hold great wisdom:
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
To keep it legal, two quotes attributed to Buddha, which hold great wisdom:
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Annex
Tyranny and Mutation
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
Jack Handey
Jack Handey
Not that blue. Anyway:
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. - Winston Churchill
aelf
Ashen One
Tsk, tsk. That's the 11th Thesis on Feuerbach
EDIT: Nooo! It's mentioned on wiki! Damn thing stole my thunder
Anyway, to keep it legal:
"FAIL"
How legal.
"You stupid Greeks, I have known your cunning ways for long enough. The late Sultan was a lenient and conscientious friend to you. The present Sultan Mehmed is not of the same mind. If Constantinople eludes his bold and imperious grasp, it will only be because Allah continues to overlook your devious and wicked schemes. You are fools to think that you can frighten us with your fantasies and that when the ink on our recent treaty of peace is barely dry. We are not children without strength or sense. If you think that you can start go ahead. If you want to bring the Hungarians across the Danube, let them come. If you want to recover places that you lost long since, try it. But know this: you will make no headway in any of these things. All that you will do is lose what little you still have."
-Halilpaşa, vezir of Mehmed II, to the envoys of Konstantinos XI, 1451
"For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses - either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrongs that you have done us - and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lakedaimonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
-Athenians to the Melians, demanding their surrender, 416 BC
"I'm as dead a man as Julius Caesar."
-Brig. Gen. Stephen Weed, one of the Federal commanding officers on Little Round Top, after being shot by a rebel sniper, July 2, 1863
"You stupid Greeks, I have known your cunning ways for long enough. The late Sultan was a lenient and conscientious friend to you. The present Sultan Mehmed is not of the same mind. If Constantinople eludes his bold and imperious grasp, it will only be because Allah continues to overlook your devious and wicked schemes. You are fools to think that you can frighten us with your fantasies and that when the ink on our recent treaty of peace is barely dry. We are not children without strength or sense. If you think that you can start go ahead. If you want to bring the Hungarians across the Danube, let them come. If you want to recover places that you lost long since, try it. But know this: you will make no headway in any of these things. All that you will do is lose what little you still have."
-Halilpaşa, vezir of Mehmed II, to the envoys of Konstantinos XI, 1451
"For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses - either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrongs that you have done us - and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lakedaimonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
-Athenians to the Melians, demanding their surrender, 416 BC
"I'm as dead a man as Julius Caesar."
-Brig. Gen. Stephen Weed, one of the Federal commanding officers on Little Round Top, after being shot by a rebel sniper, July 2, 1863
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
"Looks like you just been shot" -anonymous
holy king
Deity
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"
- Prince Phillip to a scottish driving instructor.
- Prince Phillip to a scottish driving instructor.
Churchill has to be the one to run away with such a contest:
A nation trying to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to pull himself up by the handles.
I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.
In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
* When asked what qualities a politician required.
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were your wife, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
Young man (after seeing Churchill leave the bathroom without washing his hands): At Eton they taught us to wash our hands after using the toilet.
Churchill: At Harrow they taught us not to piss on our hands.
A nation trying to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to pull himself up by the handles.
I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.
In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
* When asked what qualities a politician required.
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were your wife, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
Young man (after seeing Churchill leave the bathroom without washing his hands): At Eton they taught us to wash our hands after using the toilet.
Churchill: At Harrow they taught us not to piss on our hands.
"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)
I know! How did he make it through his presidency without this atrocity being uncovered?!?!?!???!!?
A mate: Paras don't die, they just go to Hell and regroup.
Mowque
Hypermodernist
What is a para? Some type of fish?
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
It can be either a pokemon, crown prince of Nepal, or sandstone...
Edit: nevermind, does it mean paratrooper?
Edit: nevermind, does it mean paratrooper?
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
Mise
isle of lucy
Prince Philip!Source?
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