Time for a Quote Thread! Everybody dig out your quotes, fire 'em up and pass 'em around...

"Even more than one's art, the willingness to put one's self to the test is the defining moment of a martial artist who is really looking for the core reason why he is there in the first place. Without this willingness - curiosity if you will - there is no growth, no evolution and like any organism, one's interest will run a short course and then abandon the mission for a less resistant path." (Eric Knauss).

"You don't learn the martial art (which is only an illusion), you learn about yourself." (Scott Sonnon)

"Good discipline is the kind of burden that sails are to a ship." (?)

This is why I will be at the Gathering this weekend.

You sissy boys can sit at home and eat potato chips.

"There are actual guys who think that all they want to do is go fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. They think they will feel whole, or something like that. That's just absolutely ludicrous. Come on. Is that going to be your badge of courage, that you walked in there and got your ass kicked? You know what I mean? It is ludicrous." (Tank Abbott)

"Why this timidity? It is unworthy of a noble mind. This cowardice is beneath you, don't give in to it. Shake off your weakness. Stand up now like a man."

-Bhagavad Gita

"When you transcend the medium, you have achieved art."

"Always be sincere. Even if you have to fake it."

"Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb"

Attributed to SOLOMON SHORT by David Gerrold.

"A man may take my life, but never my confidence"

- Jimmy H. Woo

"... Fighting is something natural for the human being and learning how to use your skills in combat is part of the traditional kung-fu but it’s important that a teacher also teaches how to avoid fighting, In a way, by learning how to fight we also learn the value of not fighting. self-control is very important. I would strongly advise not to intellectualise the art. Kung fu can be intellectualised but the real practise is what is important. It takes more patience and hard work and less words. Finally, as master Wang Xiang Zhai said, ‘he who learns from me in an original way will benefit, but he who always copies me mechanically will suffer’.”
Li Jian-yu in Secrets of Internal Kung-fu, May, 2001 issue

If "fighting is something natural for the human being" then everyone would be off to "the Gathering" on a daily basis like Mayhem, I mean Meynard. Such gatherings would be held as family events!

Just turn on TV and look at all the people psychologically marred, physically maimed and killed from fighting. That's all you need to learn the value of not fighting. We are all BORN with the ability to create and take life, who needs to take a MA to understand and respect that???

We all learned everything we need to by the time we were 5 years old. We all know how to avoid fights by that age.

"When they kick at your front door,

How you gonna come?

With your hands on your head,

Or on the trigger of your gun?"

(Joe Strummer)

"Is this a private fight, or can anybody get into it?"

Irish saying

"Someday you will die, and until you know that you're useless."

-Palahniuk

"Only the man who is unmoved by sensation, the wise man indifferent to pleasure or pain is fir for becoming deathless."

-Bhagavad Gita

"By ourselves is evil done. By ourselves we endure pain. By ourselves we cease from wrong. By ourselves we become pure. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may; we ourselves must thread the path. Buddhas only show the way."

-Therevada

"Tim Cartmell is not only a fine martial artist, he looks good in a suit."

-Tim Cartmell

"You learn how to fight...then you learn a martial art".

"To do is to be" -Plato
"To be is to do" -Socrates
"Do be do be do" -Sinatra



"If I want any shi+ from you I'll squeeze your head" -Dad

I thought 'Do be do be do' was Yogi Bear?!?

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them." -Adlai Stevenson

" I try to think, but nothing happens."
Curly

"........"
Harpo Marx

"yabadabadoo!" - Fred Flintstone

"Kill the head and the body will die."

"Shoot the pasties off the nipples of the 10' bull dyke and win a cotton candy goat."

"When the song peaks, throw the radio into the bathtub with me."

"I've taken the liberty of entering you in the Pipeline Masters Surfing competition. You're gonna need all your high speed balance for this one Ralph."

H.S. Thompson

"Just like a W@#, brings a knife to a gunfight"

- Sean Connery (The Untouchables)

"Heh, heh heh, 'website.'"
-Homer Simpsoy

"Put yer titty back up Edell!"
-Brad Pitt, Kalifornia

GUNS OF BRIXTON- by Paul Simonon
CROOKED BEAT- Paul Simonon

POLICE AND THIEVES - Junior Murvin

As Meynard and his Bodhisatvas know, until you remove yourself from both categories, there will always be police, and thieves.