Benchoff Fencing Quotes & Sayings

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. — Marcus Aurelius

I think I'd like her to turn round. I want to see her face a second time. That first time she was hardly visible. She was little more than dark on dark, a body shape, as I remember it. If only she would spin round on her heels and the moonlight would oblige, I could persuade myself she's real and not a spectre summoned up by loneliness. — Jim Crace

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love you," he said, holding her close and running his fingers through her tangled hair as if he couldn't believe she was still in his arms. "I think you've cast a spell on me, wicked witch that you are."
Baba thought that if this is what it meant to be wicked, she was all for it. — Deborah Blake

Nothing was perfect, but everything was all right. The light was never just blue. — Antonia Michaelis

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air. — Susan Sontag

I already told you, my feelings for you aren't romantic. I'm here because you are a friend, and for me friends are much harder to come by than a fuck. — Jeaniene Frost

Faults
They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,
Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more. — Sara Teasdale

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. — Epicurus

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says. — Robert M. Pirsig