The Invisible Man, LOTR Marty-Sue parody, and quotes (not from FA)
I want to write a review on The Outsiders, but I don't have the book with me, so I'll put it off.
Instead, I'll write a quick review on The Invisible Man:
Not what I expected. Turned out to be more than a what-if story - became something of a horror story. I was amazed by the accuracy and detail of how the Invisible Man moved and worked - like how the empty sleeve pointed at the buttons on his shirt, and one by one in turn they were undone. And did feel sorry for the Invisible Man in the end, when he was dead. Excellent book in all, really, with all the brilliance of the time period. Makes you think twice about wanting to be invisible.
Delightful Mary-Sue LOTR parody.
]When you cannot clothe yourself in a lion's skin, put on that of the fox. - Spanish proverb
A donkey that travels abroad, will not return a horse. - Hebrew saying
It's easy to cut to pieces a dead elephant, but no one dares attack a live one. - Yoruba saying
The fish sees the bait, not the hook.
Though the enemy be only like an ant, regard him like an elephant. - African saying
One must plow with the horse one has. - Steiner saying
A sense of duty is moral glue, constantly subject to stress. - William Safire
New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time. - Francis Bacon
It is to be all made of faith and service.../It is all to be made of fantasy. - Shakespeare
O God! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. - Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Power corrupts, but absolute power is kind of neat.
The two divinest things this world has got: A lovely woman in a rural spot! - Leigh Hunt
WTF?
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. - T.H. Huxley
The first casualty when war comes is the truth. - Hiram Johnson
The greatest obstacle is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the merest trifle decides a battle. - Napoleon
A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24
Oderint, dum metuant. [Let them hate, so long as they fear.] - Accius
I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends. - Jeremiah 20:4
He who has the gold makes the rules. - The Golden Rule Rev. 2.0
Guerrillas never win wars, but their adversaries often lose them. - Charles W. Thayer
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Old saying
Or it just leaves us weaker for the next thing that wants to kill us. And the next thing. And the next thing. - Mason Dunne
He who wants to kill a snake must aim for its head. - Danish saying
It is a silly little game where nobody wins. - Thomas Fuller
He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth. - George Bernard Shaw