I got this entry off of Yeah I know, but I think he had a really good idea.

You know all about signatures, so there's no point in me telling you about people putting in quotes they like and stuff. At this point, you all know that I have two famous quotes in my signature that reflect the world around me. Some of them even show my beliefs. Since Cheshie told his, so will I.

"Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you." - Hopi proverb

"What happened to the American Dream? It came true. You're looking at it." Edward Blake/The Comedian, Watchmen (film)

"To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours." - Mark Twain

"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" - Genesis 18:25

"In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons." - Herodotus

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions" - Sophocles

"An alliance with the powerful is never to be trusted" - Phaedrus

"War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it." - Martin Luther

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong." - John Milton

"A good man does not take what belongs to someone else." - Pueblo proverb

"Fortune favors the audacious." - Desiderius Erasmus

"So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil." - Niccolò Machiavelli

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana

"Disasters teach us humility." - Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury

"Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend." - Abū Muṣliḥ bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī (Sa'adi)

"In a fight, anger is as good as courage." - Welsh proverb

"Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas." - Blackfoot proverb

"A man must make his own arrows." - Winnebago proverb

"If you can't take the heat, then get out of the kitchen." - Harry S. Truman

"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please." - Niccolò Machiavelli

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers." - Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes." - Navajo proverb

"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

"Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts." - Hopi proverb

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command." - Niccolò Machiavelli

"My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent." Ulysses Simpson Grant

"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States." - J. Bartlet Brebner

"The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something." - Aristotle

"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious." - Sun Tzu

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." - Lakota proverb

"You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." - Navajo proverb

"Until I came to Canada I never knew 'snow' was a four letter word." - Alberto Manguel

"If you don't believe your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else." - Stompin' Tom Connors

"All who have died are equal." - Comanche proverb

"The rain falls on the just and the unjust." - Hopi proverb

"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity." - Herbert Marshall McLuhan

"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep." - Italian proverb

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"I am not denying anything I did not say." - Brian Mulroney

"After dark all cats are leopards." - Zuni proverb


Whew, quite the long list of what makes me tick, eh? Well enough about me. What are your quotes? What inspires you in life?