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Sword Quotes Apr 3, 2011 23:39:06 GMT

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I keep a writer's file with quotes and stories on virtually everything. I couldn't figure out why I didn't have one on swords, then I discovered that I misfiled it under "swear." It made me swear so I put it back where it was. Anyhow, some interesting quotes for ya...

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. - Confucius

You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll kill each other like civilized people? - The Princess Bride

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands. - Seneca

I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. - J.R.R. Tolkien

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. - Terry Pratchett

A good sword is the one left in its scabbard. - Japanese Proverb

Their sword will become our plow, and from the tears of war the daily bread of future generations will grow. - Adolf Hitler

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. - Orlando Bloom

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England. - Thomas Mallory

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. - Bob Dylan

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. - Ulysses S. Grant

One sword keeps another in the sheath. - George Hebert

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Sword Quotes Apr 3, 2011 23:45:49 GMT

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Post by Vincent Dolan on Apr 3, 2011 23:45:49 GMT

I've got a file of quotes meself, but only insofar as the things that catch my eye, so they're literally about anything; oddly, though, I have none about swords. However, I do have this one that came from Lunaman during a conversation about the cutting abilities of straight blades: "The only reason people cut better with a curved sword is because it's easier to maintain edge alignment. The sword isn't cutting better; you're screwing up less."

Storytellers and writers are all gods and goddesses, to a one. Musicians are their host, painters their scribes, and actors their saints--but all arts start with a story to tell.

Vincent's Hall of Blades. Go on; take a peek. You know you want to.

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Sword Quotes Apr 4, 2011 0:18:14 GMT

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The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.
- Felix Frankfurter

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
James Stephens

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons

"SBG: Your Journey Into Sword Collecting Begins Here."
--Me

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
--Mahatma Ghandi

Greg Senior Forumite Posts: 1,800	Sword Quotes Apr 5, 2011 5:29:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Greg on Apr 5, 2011 5:29:41 GMT chrisperoni wrote ... swords make people polite

Razor Senior Forumite Posts: 1,883	Sword Quotes Apr 5, 2011 8:25:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Razor on Apr 5, 2011 8:25:13 GMT They say the pen is mightier than the sword......but I say,f#ck the pen.....because your going to diiiie by the sword! -Slayer
	"He that keeps not his arms in time of peace will have none in time of war." Gaelic proverb

Sir Tre Member Posts: 807	Sword Quotes Apr 6, 2011 1:17:55 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Sir Tre on Apr 6, 2011 1:17:55 GMT it is clear that this matter cannot be determined by the knowledge of the force but by lightsaber... starwars episode 2
	“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee "Practice does NOT make perfect.... PERFECT PRACTICE makes perfect." EMS Instructor.

johnapsega Member Posts: 846	Sword Quotes Apr 9, 2011 1:05:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by johnapsega on Apr 9, 2011 1:05:07 GMT I absolutly love quotes. Thank you guys for this thread I am so happy that this is the first one that I read now that I am back on the forum.
	"With 2000 years of examples behind us we have no excuse when fighting, for not fighting well." T. E Governments govern on the consent of the governed- John Locke Those who were seen dancing, were though to be crazy by those who could not here the music. - Nietzsche

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Sword Quotes Apr 9, 2011 1:20:26 GMT

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"God spede you; go'th forth and lay on fast. With longe swerd and with mase fighteth your fill."
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will find themselves doing all the plowing for those who didn't"
-Unknown (at least by me!)

"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools."
-Thucydides

"Tis all to die upon the end of the sword. Tis another thing entirely to be slapped thus with the sweaty end!"
-Hans Talhoffer

"Sorry king, here's your knife"
"SWORD"
"Whatever"
-Rabbi Tuckman & King Richard, Robin Hood: Men In Tights

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair
-Douglas Adams

"Aw come ON! How come all you sword-guys always have to talk about how cool your sword is??"
-Brock Sampson

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Sword Quotes Apr 9, 2011 20:06:30 GMT

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"Thy scurvy knave! Thou standest before me in thy knitted knickers like some unknowing knucklehead. Knead thy courage into substance! Kneel on thy knobby knees on yon knotted floor and I shall knock thee on thy shoulder with mine great knife. Thou, my knave, are to be a knight!" - Dodger (from a short play I wrote for my son's Grade 4 class entitled "What If We Actually Pronounced Silent Letters?")

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steelhound Member Posts: 1,160	Sword Quotes Apr 9, 2011 20:24:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by steelhound on Apr 9, 2011 20:24:00 GMT "There's nothing so comforting in a dark room, as three feet of cold steel." (Robert Heinlein) This one comes to mind every time I have checked out a 'bump in the night' with sword in hand.

Wes Member Posts: 736	Sword Quotes Apr 10, 2011 12:43:39 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Wes on Apr 10, 2011 12:43:39 GMT "The Bright Blade Flashes Inscribing the Final Arc On All Tomorrows." Haiku from a Wolverine comic, not sure if its from an earlier source as there were no citations, but I still love it.
	-Wes "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." -H.P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu

MOK Member Posts: 5,252	Sword Quotes Apr 10, 2011 15:49:29 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by MOK on Apr 10, 2011 15:49:29 GMT Greg wrote chrisperoni wrote ... swords make people polite Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. (Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant)
	"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." — Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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