"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
- Terry Pratchett

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

General Douglas MacArthur

"Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure."
- Terry Pratchett

"Nuts!"

General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe - Bastogne, Belgium, December 22, 1944

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".

Churchill

"For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks."
- Terry Pratchett

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

Alexander the Great

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."

-GK Chesterton

"Defend, my friends, Christendom and Hungary from all enemies...
Do not quarrel among yourselves.
If you should waste your energies in altercations,
you will seal your own fate as well as dig the grave of our country."

-John Hunyadi

“If you want to be strong and of good courage, be sure that you care less about death than about shame.”

– Geoffroi de Charny

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

Michelangelo

Einstein quotes are almost always over used but I didn't see any so I'll share this one:

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets ~ Ron Swanson

I am the walrus ~ Lennon


Language Alert - Might offend some sensibilities