Trading Maxims/Quotes

Victory shifts from man to man ~Homer~

 

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. ~Napolean~

 

What discourages opponents from coming is the prospect of harm. ~Sun Tzu~

 

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. ~Proverbs 16.18~

 

"Smiles form the channels of future tears" ~Japanese Proverb~

 

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for though knowest not what a day may bring forth. ~Proverbes 27:1~

 

It’s just like learning archery; eventually you reach a point where ideas are ended and feelings forgotten, and then you suddenly hit the target.
~Zen master Ying-An~

 

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast;
in the pool where you least expect it there will be fish"

~Ovid~

 

" No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, BUT the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion"

David Hume -- Treatise on Human Nature

 

"...human experience is determined as much by the nature of mind and the structure of the senses as by external objects whose presence the mind reveals"

~Alan Watts~