Previous Quotes

Date	Quote
28/12/06	Generally speaking, it is essential to make your ordinary bearing the bearing you use in martial arts, and make the bearing you use in martial arts your ordinary bearing. The book of five rings - Miyamoto Musashi
11/04/06	"Evil to Him who evil thinks (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)" King Edward the Third (1312 - 1377), Motto of the order of the Garter
29/12/05	Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
01/12/05	In times of stress, be bold and valiant. Horace (65BC - 8BC)
19/10/05	Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength Sun Tzu - The Art of War
05/10/05	Do not consider what you are, but what you will be St Columbus - 7th C
27/09/05	Be submissive to good, unbending to evil, gentle in curiosity, untiring in love, just in all things St Columbus - 7th C
19/09/05	Gaffer tape is like the force, it holds the universe together and has a dark side
02/08/05	three things that ruin wisdom,ignorance,inacurate knowledge,forgetfulness. 9th c anon triad
12/07/05	A stroke of the sword that does not hit its target is the sword stroke of death; you reach over it to strike the winning blow. Your adversarys inititive having missed its mark, you turn the tables arround and get the jump on your adversary. Yagyu Munenori - The book of family Traditions on the art of war.
21/06/05	Be unshaken in turmoil, valiant in the cause of truth, cautious in time of strife St Columbus - 7th C
14/06/05	Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow. Yagyu Munenori - The book of family Traditions on the art of war
06/06/05	When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head. Yagyu Munenori - The book of family Traditions on the art of war (This may seem familiar! certain persons in the group have already read this I think- ED)
31/05/05	In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won. The book of five rings - Miyamoto Musashi
23/05/05	Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected The art of war - Sun Tzu
15/05/05	My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure, The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard grounds shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel; They reel, they roll in clanging lists; And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, That lightly rain from ladies' hands. Tennyson
09/05/05	There may be a hundred stances and sword positions, but you win with just one. Yagyu Munenori - The book of family Traditions on the art of war