Baritsu Quotes & Sayings

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us. — Charles Caleb Colton

Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour with predictions based on scientific experiment and carefully tabulated statistics of observations. — Isaiah Berlin

My mouth dropped open, because even if it wasn't my best friend, I knew the guy who was presently rubbing the short stubble on his chin. The only new thing about him was the little scar on his left eyebrow. It was Gabriel Green, known to me as Gabe the douche bag. Great! — Stephanie Witter

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. — Michelle Obama

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. — Ellen Key

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. — Terry Pratchett

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. — John Piper

I shall be there before the commencement. — Charles Dickens

I was glad to get out of my house, for any reason, even if the reason involved grave robbing. — Kami Garcia

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake. — Dogen

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. — Aleister Crowley

It's up to you, not fate. — David Levithan

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

God has not called you to get agitated about His work, to get worried and disquieted on His account. He has called you to be a fellow worker, His co-worker — Sunday Adelaja

This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live. — Nathaniel Hawthorne