Quotes

One of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.

You should never debate an idiot... No more than you’d use your best sword to spread butter.

The first to apologise is the bravest.
The first to forgive is the strongest.
The first to forget is the happiest.

But the Lord uses a scale very different from the world’s to weigh the worth of a soul.

Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.

Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.

The soldier’s way. Deal with today’s problems, then sleep and deal with tomorrow’s problems tomorrow.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Love… is like a pile of chull dung… for even as we try to avoid both, we end up stepping in them anyway.

Beauty was out there, all around. To create art was not to capture it, but to participate in it.