Favourite quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

All music is beautiful.

Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation.

Les Baxter

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret.

We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

Which of us were fortunate -- who can tell? For you there is silence and cold twilight drooping in awful desolation over those motionless lands. For us sunlight and the sound of women's voices, song and hope and laughter, despair, gaiety, love -- life.

Lost terrible silent comrades, we, who might have died, salute you.

- Richard Aldington

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929

The applause of a single human being trigger the applause of thousands of human beings.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

Ar fi fantastic daca le-ar da Boc cate 300 sa se duca in Papua Noua Guinee si sa stea acolo un an.Sau na,600 dar cu clauza sa nu se mai intoarca niciodata.

Radu Banciu

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Herbert V. Prochnow

All war is deception.

Sun Tzu

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

David Merrick