[Blackwell]

'You can do anything if you can overcome the resistance. Be it physical or mental. It is your job as a king to overcome.'

Elliot Hulse

[Kingsley Davis]

Anything from Aesop's Fables. Red pilled as fuck too.

"The Eagle and the Arrow


AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare
whom he sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw the Eagle
from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him
mortally. The Eagle gave one look at the arrow that had entered
his heart and saw in that single glance that its feathers had
been furnished by himself. "It is a double grief to me," he
exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my
own wings."

[Atticus]

'I see every woman as a potential mistress. Beautiful women cannot bear moderation; they need an inexhaustible supply of excess.'

Aristotle Onassis

[Redwood]

"“It's a cold world out there and sometimes I feel a little frosty myself." - The Big Chill

[QuietDog]

"A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end, he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame."

Boris Yeltsin

[eatthishomie]

Princess Leia: "I love you."
Han Solo: "I know."

[Pride male]

Homie you hustlin backwards if you chasing a bitch
You stupid, chase the paper, they come with this shit.

50 cent.

[TooFineAPoint]

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
Honore de Balzac

[Kane12:00]

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw

[H1N1]

I came across these paragraphs this morning in Field Marshal Lord Wavell's poetry anthology 'Other men's flowers'. It's well worth the read:

Quote:

That spirit of adventure which once ran so high in the young men of the British Isles grew thin and sluggish in the years between the wars. They preferred to experience their adventure vicariously by way of Hollywood-made films and cheap sensational fiction, also largely from America; their travels abroad were by Cook's Tours and 'luxury cruises'. They Marry younger and become domesticated - the process by which man, to serve his purposes, has turned far-ranging wild-foul into barndoor hens, and woman, to serve hers, has turned nomad man into the black-coated clerk. They are open to the taunt thrown by Juvenal at the Roman people more than 1800 years ago that their main desire was 'panem et circenses' - cake and cinemas.

Perhaps the enervating march of civilization is as inevitable as old age, but it seems to have come on us as a nation somewhat suddenly. Forty years ago, when I joined the Army, almost every subaltern sought service abroad in the hope of sport and adventure; twenty years later almost every subaltern did all he could to avoid foreign service. Even our airmen, who must surely have the spirit of adventure, risk death lightly but complain of discomfort.. It seems to me that prosperity slackened our fibers and that we are very definitely less tough in mind and body than we were even twenty years ago. It is a law of life which has yet to be broken that a nation can only earnt he right to live soft by being prepared to die hard in defence of its living. Our seamen at least in the fleet and in the merchant navy are still doing so, as they have always done. Our soldiers, our airmen, John Citizen and Jill Citizen are relearning the lesson; in the silken East some of our merchants and administrators have it still to learn. May the spirit of adventure and self-sacrifice be rekindled and stay with us after the war, when we undertake the greatest adventure yet laid on the human race, to refashion a shattered world.

[General Stalin]

The first hour and a half of this:

Most anything Patrice has to say regarding women and relationships.

"Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." - Robert De Niro in "Heat" (also quoted in the video above)

[el conquistador]

"Girls don't like big pecs! they like money and "this"!(as he indicates with his hand mid thigh on the leg)"

- Mark Rippetoe

[Yagibozan]

These words extended WW1 3 years. Men were of a different breed back then. I'm admiring hard at the resolve required to even phrase these words.

[Paracelsus]

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows; it's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth, but you have to be willing to take the hits! And not standing around pointing fingers saying you're not where you want to be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and THAT AIN'T YOU! YOU'RE BETTER THAN THAT!"
--Stallone

[brob]

Disregard females, acquire currency

[Aquiles_Baesta_Parada]

The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli

CHAPTER XXV

What Fortune Can Effect In Human Affairs, And How To Withstand Her

IT is not unknown to me how many men have had, and still have, the opinion that the affairs of the world are in such wise governed by fortune and by God that men with their wisdom cannot direct them and that no one can even help them; and because of this they would have us believe that it is not necessary to labour much in affairs, but to let chance govern them. This opinion has been more credited in our times because of the great changes in affairs which have been seen, and may still be seen, every day, beyond all human conjecture. Sometimes pondering over this, I am in some degree inclined to their opinion. Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.

I compare her to one of those raging rivers, which when in flood overflows the plains, sweeping away trees and buildings, bearing away the soil from place to place; everything flies before it, all yield to its violence, without being able in any way to withstand it; and yet, though its nature be such, it does not follow therefore that men, when the weather becomes fair, shall not make provision, both with defences and barriers, in such a manner that, rising again, the waters may pass away by canal, and their force be neither so unrestrained nor so dangerous. So it happens with fortune, who shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.

And if you will consider Italy, which is the seat of these changes, and which has given to them their impulse, you will see it to be an open country without barriers and without any defence. For if it had been defended by proper valour, as are Germany, Spain, and France, either this invasion would not have made the great changes it has made or it would not have come at all. And this I consider enough to say concerning resistance to fortune in general.

But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having shown any change of disposition or character. This, I believe, arises firstly from causes that have already been discussed at length, namely, that the prince who relies entirely upon fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One can also see of two cautious men the one attain his end, the other fail; and similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful, the one being cautious, the other impetuous; all this arises from nothing else than whether or not they conform in their methods to the spirit of the times. This follows from what I have said, that two men working differently bring about the same effect, and of two working similarly, one attains his object and the other does not.

Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, times and affairs converge in such a way that his administration is successful, his fortune is made; but if times and affairs change, he is ruined if he does not change his course of action. But a man is not often found sufficiently circumspect to know how to accommodate himself to the change, both because he cannot deviate from what nature inclines him to, and also because, having always prospered by acting in one way, he cannot be persuaded that it is well to leave it; and, therefore, the cautious man, when it is time to turn adventurous, does not know how to do it, hence he is ruined; but had he changed his conduct with the times fortune would not have changed.

Pope Julius II went to work impetuously in all his affairs, and found the times and circumstances conform so well to that line of action that he always met with success. Consider his first enterprise against Bologna, Messer Giovanni Bentivogli being still alive. The Venetians were not agreeable to it, nor was the King of Spain, and he had the enterprise still under discussion with the King of France; nevertheless he personally entered upon the expedition with his accustomed boldness and energy, a move which made Spain and the Venetians stand irresolute and passive, the latter from fear, the former from desire to recover all the kingdom of Naples; on the other hand, he drew after him the King of France, because that king, having observed the movement, and desiring to make the Pope his friend so as to humble the Venetians, found it impossible to refuse him soldiers without manifestly offending him. Therefore Julius with his impetuous action accomplished what no other pontiff with simple human wisdom could have done; for if he had waited in Rome until he could get away, with his plans arranged and everything fixed, as any other pontiff would have done, he would never have succeeded. Because the King of France would have made a thousand excuses, and the others would have raised a thousand fears.

I will leave his other actions alone, as they were all alike, and they all succeeded, for the shortness of his life did not let him experience the contrary; but if circumstances had arisen which required him to go cautiously, his ruin would have followed, because he would never have deviated from those ways to which nature inclined him.

I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.

[odesseus]

Game fucking works

- Anon Beta

[eatthishomie]

"Pain is my friend!"
- C.T. Fletcher

[Charles Martel]

From an anonymous SF soldier, pertaining to 100% integration of women...

"Gender equality is not an option when the bullets are flying," he said. "Most males in the area of the world I work in would rather back hand a female than listen to her speak. There is a reason we send men to do these jobs."

Link

[cascadecombo]

Major Payne:
Maybe what he need is for you to pop your titty out his mouth and let the boy grow up.

[samsamsam]

[CallSignBigRed]

I like this one

[LeoneVolpe]

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy."
- Alexandre Dumas

"Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting."
- Unknown

[EDantes]

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another" - Anonymous

"Pain is the feeling of weakness leaving the body" - USMC

"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche

[EDantes]

Maybe the local titty bar has an opening for "urologist" if you know what I mean