Favorite saying or proverb...

[kendo_chick]

Well, I was inspired by the "Ultimate Top Ten Martial Arts" last night.

I heard my favorite quote for training of all time...

"Cry in the dojo, laugh on the battle field"

So, what's your favorite saying or proverb?

[Critical_Bill]

"Take moments, never take time...or your kendo will suck and you will die!"
(quote ebihara sensei)

[mingshi]

"In a real battlefield, you pick up an enemy who has turned to his back. Stab him from behind, step on top of him, and cover your face with his blood..."

-- Actual words of Victor Harris

[Paburo]

my friend told me this was from bushido:

si te persiguen, huye.
si te insultan, calla.
si te acorralan, mata.

in my best broken english it would be something like this:

if they chase you, run.
if they insult you, keep quiet.
if they corner you, kill.

[KhawMengLee]

hmmnn...I like these two

[KhawMengLee]

oops...anyway onto the qoutes:

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author

and

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[lucian]

A one every comprehensive student should know
"The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori"
Wilfred Owen, soldier, poet, dead bloke.

[KhawMengLee]

It is sweet and proper to die for one's country?

Looking at the Avatar you have Lucian, ever heard of this one about the kukri's prowess at decapitation?:

A gurkha and a Japanese officer were squared off against each other. The former with his kukri and the latter with a fine katana.
With a deft stroke the officer sliced off the gurkha's hand. Looking at the officer the gurkha said:

"Well done Sahib, you have wounded me...just don't nod your head."

[lucian]

yeah that would be the best transation in modern English, sorry i should have put it in English too

haha yup i have Heard that one, and it is probably true! Kukri are the most beautiful knife I have ever used (I still have many cuts on my fingers from every time I drew the blade)
I really miss my kukri damn ex-fiancée handed it in to the police during the weapons amnesty

Gregg

[KhawMengLee]

I got a really old antique one. My dad's mate in the army got it from a counterpart during the malayan emergency(when we went to war with indonesia).

Good weapon...bloody cuts through anything.

[munenmuso]

Do not seek to follow the footsteps of the old men ; seek what they sought.


-Matsuo Basho

[Winter_Wolf]

Hi,
Momma always said:
"Life is like a box a choclates, ya never know what your gonna get."
seriously, I love that movie...
Thanks,
W.W.

[lucian]

“Better To Die Than A Coward” – Gurkha motto “Utrinque Paratus (ready for any thing)”-Para motto

~G

[KhawMengLee]

heh, I got the book with that title.

[nodachi]

Dorp Dead

No, that is not a typo, it's an actual title of a book that I saw once, never got around to reading it though... kinda sad I didn't get to it, title sounded interesting...