Mudfur Warrior Quotes & Sayings

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face. — Alexandre Dumas

In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one's own opinion. — Dada Bhagwan

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field — Wendy Mass

I remember once I came into his room alone, when no one was with him. It was a bright evening, the sun was setting and lit up the whole room with its slanting rays. He beckoned when he saw me, I went over to him, he took me by the shoulders with both hands, looked tenderly, lovingly into my face; he did not say anything, he simply looked at me like that for about a minute: "Well," he said, "go now, play, live for me!" I walked out then and went to play. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was like being in the start of an earthquake. Before that, whatever else happened, however bad things had been, you were at least sure the ground would stay still. — Roland Merullo

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. — Mike Tyson

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart. — Peter C. Doherty

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. — Edward Abbey

I might fall, but I'll come back again and again. I might falter, but I'll return with twice the fury. — Wildbow

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection. — W.E.B. Du Bois

That's how you know if a friend is the best kind. If time and miles get between you, yet when you come back together, it's like you were never apart. — Kristin Walker

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. — George Savile