L5r:Quotes
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Quote <div style="text-align: right;">''Speaker / Literary work''</div> <div class="plainlinks" style="text-align: right; font-size: 8pt;">Source</div> <noinclude>[[Category:QotD for year year]]</noinclude>
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[edit] September 2007
[edit] September 30, 2007
If it's got four legs and isn't a table, it it's swim in the water and isn't a boat, if it flies and isn't a kite - the Unicorn will eat it.
[edit] September 29, 2007
Do not choose a famous name. Choose your name and then make it famous
[edit] September 28, 2007
To be born at all is to have died before.
[edit] September 27, 2007
First we are enveloped by the womb; then we are enveloped by custom; finally we are enveloped by death.
[edit] September 26, 2007
Understand the Will of Heaven and you make all things possible. Ignore it, and you will accomplish nothing.
[edit] September 25, 2007
When the samurai-sama come into our establishment they feel that they can let down the weight of the world. They laugh, dance, and enjoy simple pleasures. Occasionally the mood and the sake affect the samurai. It doesn't matter who it is, if anyone causes trouble in my building, my guard Domon will throw him out of the building.
[edit] September 24, 2007
Beware the arrival of the Emerald Magistrates, for we will shed light on your darkest, hidden crimes and bring the iniquitous to answer for their sins. You cannot escape the Emperor's justice.
[edit] September 23, 2007
The mind of Tengoku gives no thought to foreign barbarians.
[edit] September 22, 2007
My father understood that it is not enough to say that the Mandate of Heaven is absolute. Men must understand it and treat it as such. For if they not, they become little more than beasts, and if his subjects became as beasts, then all that he built would fall apart.
[edit] September 21, 2007
It's clearly untrue that Unicorn samurai learn their manners from their horses. No horse has ever tried to shake hands with someone.
[edit] September 20, 2007
The Scorpion, they wear masks as a sign they can't be trusted and then become offended when you don't. Can't these people make up their minds?
[edit] September 19, 2007
Lion samurai are brought up to be staid, dependable, hard-working, loyal and obedient. I had a pony like that once.
[edit] September 18, 2007
Dragon wisdom is vastly over-rated. Making sense to yourself is easy; it's making sense to others that is hard.
[edit] September 17, 2007
Everyone knows that the Crane are the most elegant Clan in the Empire. Everyone knows it because we tell them over and over again.
[edit] September 16, 2007
Lady Shiriko claimed today that the Crab are no different than the ogres they fight. I must disagree - no one has ever heard of an ogre using chopsticks.
[edit] September 15, 2007
When a wild duck flies straight through your kitchen door you shouldn't expect to find leeks on its back as well.
[edit] September 14, 2007
The Mantis are proud descendants of a Hida who couldn't keep his hands to himself and a Matsu without a single shred of property.
[edit] September 13, 2007
If you have offended against Heaven, your prayers will not hide you.
[edit] September 12, 2007
A warrior's failure dooms only himself ; a courtier's failure dooms the entire Clan.
[edit] September 11, 2007
The Phoenix ambassador goes on and on about peace in the Empire. It is noble, I guess, to want for the Empire what you can't get at home from your kin.
[edit] August 2007
[edit] August 10, 2007
When Scorpion fight Scorpion strange things are bound to happen.
[edit] August 9, 2007
There was only one manner in which problems were truly solved. Deception.
[edit] August 8, 2007
I return you to whatever foul hell spawned you.
[edit] August 7, 2007
You are the last of your line. You have no siblings, no children. Your father’s legacy will end with you.
[edit] August 6, 2007
Every day an adventure! Every battle a festival!
[edit] August 5, 2007
Your task is done, my friend. Everyone will know of your valor. I will tell the world.
[edit] August 4, 2007
My students, I have nothing more to teach you... but you have only begun to learn the Seppun's lessons.
[edit] August 3, 2007
I relish danger over the boredom of an idyllic paradise. I will be indebted to you forever if you spare me that fate.
[edit] August 2, 2007
We may die, perhaps, but we will not be defeated. If I die, it will be with my grandfather's blade in my hand.
[edit] August 1, 2007
No Scorpion gives away favors for free.
[edit] July 2007
[edit] July 31, 2007
Pain is a poor motivator. Fear works far better.
[edit] July 30, 2007
To learn about the Khadi, we must seek the knowledge at its source. We must enter the Burning Sands.
[edit] July 29, 2007
Do you truly want to know? The nightmares would be… unpleasant.
[edit] July 28, 2007
To set foot Gisei Toshi is to be changed by it forever.
[edit] July 27, 2007
Death is too easy a thing to give, Kaelung. I asked for a life. That is much more difficult.
[edit] July 26, 2007
Daigotsu, for all the darkness in his soul, is part of the Celestial Order, just as a predator has its place in nature.
[edit] July 25, 2007
The Sparrow Clan delegate is eager to continue the epic history of his clan which I understand he began to share with you upon your last visit. Is it true that he only made his way through the first four hours last time? Believe me from experience, he has a great deal left to tell.
[edit] July 24, 2007
Your power will be beyond measure, and the Dragons shall gain a foothold in this world.
[edit] July 23, 2007
Let mortals plot against the gods. They forget that the gods have plans for them as well.
[edit] July 22, 2007
Of course. The winter home of Toturi's children should be our highest priority. Surely the wars with the Dark Lord's spawn and the thieving Crane can be rescheduled.
[edit] July 21, 2007
A Dark Lord, his face masked in white, the last legacy of a fallen Emperor, guards the key to the god’s defeat.
[edit] July 20, 2007
Oni do not serve, nor obey. We dominate. We destroy.
[edit] July 19, 2007
Speak ill of them again and I will cut your tongue from your head and throw you over the wall. The scent of your blood will draw predators quickly, so pray that you bleed to death first.
[edit] July 18, 2007
Thank you. But the real test shall be whether or not it can heal as well as cut.
[edit] July 17, 2007
They believe that you have the plague. But we know better, don't we?
[edit] July 16, 2007
A man makes his own destiny. Each wave that tears its mark upon the shore can show you that.
[edit] July 15, 2007
All this time I have concerned myself with changing the Empire, but it is I who have changed.
[edit] July 14, 2007
I give you my name, demon, of my own free will.
[edit] July 13, 2007
It is not easy to watch a friend die
[edit] July 12, 2007
[edit] July 11, 2007
[edit] July 10, 2007
[edit] June 2007
[edit] June 24, 2007
"This is not the Empire I knew. This is paradise. This is Jigoku."
[edit] June 23, 2007
"I can breathe, so I can serve."
[edit] June 22, 2007
As Hommaru rode, he met with Otaku Kamoko and her army of mounted peasants. When she heard the news, it is said she smiled, and said, "Now we will see what mettle this shugenja is made of."
[edit] June 21, 2007
Toturi cried, "For Rokugan!" and their cheers echoed his battlecry as the combined might of three armies charged the walls.
[edit] June 20, 2007
Our alliance with the Shadow has been struck, bound with the blood of innocents and with the screams of the terrified.
[edit] June 19, 2007
The escaped Hanif slaves scattered, trying to elude the pursuing Senpet, but it appeared that they would nearly all be recaptured this night. Then, without warning, the Moto champion arose from the sands.
[edit] June 18, 2007
What is now has been before and will be again. All that is now is part of what has been and what will come to be.
[edit] June 17, 2007
In this time of strife, it is time for us to come together, like the folding of steel, once together we become stronger.
[edit] June 16, 2007
The Obsidian Hand, which had now turned Hitomi's entire arm to obsidian, had given her dark knowledge and powers, and she saw the terrible purpose to which her life must lead.
[edit] June 8, 2007
"Perhaps the people might need our help!"
"No, Mino-chan. A Minor Clan survives by being cautious, not curious."
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