quotation debate

[T.I.P.]

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

~ Henry David Thoreau

[zero]

in every block of marble i see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. i have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

- michelangelo

[12"razormix]

i shut my eyes in order to see.

paul gauguin

[brightpearl]

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
~Phaedrus

[T.I.P.]

Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops.

~Cary Grant

[lukkucairi]

All the wild horses
Tethered with tears in their eyes
May no man's touch ever tame
May no man's reins ever chain you

- Ray LaMontagne

[brightpearl]

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
~Oscar Wilde

[Veruki]

Rebel rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, i love you so!
~Bowie

[Marcus Bales]

Good Old Rebel
Major Innes Randolph (J.E.B. Stuart's staff.)
Collier’s Weekly, 1914

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now that's just what I am;
For this "fair land of Freedom"
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit against it-
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.

I hates the Constitution,
This “great Republic” too;
I hates the Freedman Buro
In uniforms of blue
I hates that nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
And the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em wuss and wuss.

I hates the Yankee nation,
And everything they do;
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence too.
I hates the “glorious Union,”
'Tis dripping with our blood;
And I hates the Union banner-
I fit it all I could.

I followed old Marse Robert
For four years near about.
Got wounded in three places,
And starved at Point Lookout.
I cotch the roomatism
A-campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance of Yankees-
And I'd like to kill some mo'.

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff iin Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Befo' they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no mo',
But I ain't a-goin'to love' em,
Now that is sartin sho';
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a damn.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

War is over, if you want it

~ John Lennon

[brightpearl]

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
~Napoleon

[Veruki]

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
~Blaise Pascal

[brightpearl]

I'm at war with myself over which to post, so take your pick:

The painful warrior famous for fight,
After a thousand victories, once foil'd,
Is from the books of honor razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
~William Shakespeare


My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
~Thomas Jefferson

[zero]

earth loves the rain, the proud sky loves to give it. the whole world loves to create futurity. i say then to the world, 'i share your love.' is this not the source of the phrase, 'this loves to happen'?

- marcus aurelius antoninus

[Hyakujo's Fox]

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

~ D. H. Lawrence