Howard Tayler famous quotes

04-26-2025

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.
-- Howard Tayler

#Gun #Judging #Sound
The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.
-- Howard Tayler

#Size #Paychecks #Surviving
When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.
-- Howard Tayler

#Ideas #Messengers #Cases
The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.
-- Howard Tayler

#Law #Spirit #Prepared
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
-- Howard Tayler

#Spy #Three #Ugly
Only cheaters prosper.
-- Howard Tayler

#Cheater #Prosperity
Maxim 20: If youâ€™re not willing to shell your own position, youâ€™re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
-- Howard Tayler

#Winning #Shells #Mercenary
As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon
-- Howard Tayler

#Lying #Long #Enemy
Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn
-- Howard Tayler

#Adventure #Self #Body
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
-- Howard Tayler

#Running #Ordnance #Mercenary
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
-- Howard Tayler

#Lasts #Violence #Enough
Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock
-- Howard Tayler

#Elephants #Two #Next
Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/
-- Howard Tayler

#Children #Engineering #Iron

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