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That thing was too big to be called a sword.
Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.
The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back.
It was a foolish warrior who entrusted his weapons to the care of any man, save himself.
The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.
Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword.
Men with Honor are not killed by swords, they die of Shame.
Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.
Just because you hold a sword, does not mean it is the only weapon you can use to win the battle.
The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
English dragoons
A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.
Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight."
"Only a moron brings a sword to a gunfight.
Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.
Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds.
- Matthias
was an officer holding out his sword,
Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end up doing the plowing for those who kept their swords.
With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country.
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
Ours is a world controlled by the warrior and the sword.
The with forbidden the death of warriors
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days. So
Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.
Soothe and sly stamina with a short sword they slice
They are beyond precise making the victim pay the price
Yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power?
Give me a sword fight any day.
It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.
Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.
The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.
Respect the Sword, Grimm.
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.
A sword's a sword, a helm's a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you're serving.
You bear a sword and shield, remind me
of her labor, her stoning gaze. What beast
will your blade free next? What call will you loose
from another woman's throat?
At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.
Killing men is not like fencing. There's no room for fine touches in battle. Every second that you blade is stuck in one man's body is a second that another can use to skewer you.
And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
But the warriors true, the brave of heart
Who valiently upheld the right
They are raised on high to the velvet sky
Bringing light to the darkness of night
By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.
The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.
Whosoe'er shall take the sword Shall perish by the sword.
Don't run with swords in your mouth!
The Sword of Summer, a weapon that wasn't designed to be a weapon, a blade that is best used by letting go of it.
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
I AM SALOMAN. GIVE ME MY SWORD!
Human beings, perfected by our own technology. Only to be wielded by the chosen few. Not by the sheep but by those who are better, Those who are willing to make it to the stars through blood.
So we strap on weapons that work - weapons divinely authorized for our success in spiritual warfare: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace. Then we take up the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, as well as the sword - the very Word of God. But
they run in among their own men to restrain their fury; and if any of their enemies see them or call to them, they are preserved by that means; and such as can come so near them as to touch their garments have not only their lives, but their fortunes secured to them;
A man who can kill several people with a sword is merely a living weapon. A great warrior can kill thousands of men with just his mind.
A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
May your swords stay sharp -Brom
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit; occidentis telum est.
A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killers hand.
The king, the priest, the rich man - who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers.
Give me a sword and I will slay a man, give me a voice and I will slay a country.
It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.
Who wears white to a knife fight?
Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
with their pens, and no less great with their swords - fearing God very much, and fearing men very little, - they were a generation of men who have never received from their country the honor that they deserve.
Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.
Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!
Stern men with empires in their brains.
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
Those skilled in warfare move the enemy, and are not moved by the enemy.
The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper
The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.
Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends
of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.
Why, the man killed over two hundred demons with this sword. They say it is charmed such that whomever wields it cannot be killed by a demon." "How did he die?" "Knifed by an exotic dancer.
If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?
All bleed who fight with the sword. All confront, with greater or lesser difficulty, the worship of their own flesh. The swordmaiden faces particular obstacles in this matter: she will have seen, in the temples and elsewhere, many images of unscarred women.
A castle of defense, a bastion of might
A fort where the wise teach the young to fight
An armory of weapons, sharp as hooks
Are wrapped in leather and shelved as books
Where other men blindly follow the truth, Remember, nothing is true.
Where other men are limited by morality or law, Remember, everything is permitted.
We work in the dark to serve the light.
We are assassins.
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.
The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.
The men, who a moment before had been cursing and cumbersome creatures clambering down the clay bank into the clumsy boats, were mysteriously transformed into warrior silhouettes, spiky with weapons, who glided silent and noble through the vaporous night toward the misted shadows of the enemy shore.
A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper.
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
Every white knight needed a deadly black sword at his back.
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry,
A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
On the face of the black earth, but I say
It's what one loves.
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
Covenants without swords are but words.
Not all are called to the way of the sword or the gun or the ship, but all serve ka.
Knight without fear and without reproach.
Here I want to see those men of hard voice.
Those that break horses and dominate rivers;
those men of sonorous skeleton who sing
with a mouth full of sun and flint.
The true warrior understands that while one is learning how to use a sword,
We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
The times grow ever more interesting, my sweet, and when the times are interesting you can never have too many swords.
The world changes. Now, one needs no army and no sword to conquer the world.
It's cool. No sword. See? No sword. Calm thoughts. Sea grass. Mama cows. Vegetarianism.
Most people want to be perceived as Katana swords, but they don't spend enough time in the forge to even be butter knives.