Quotes from David Weber

I see you're closer to on time than usual!

as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul

you can't waste resources reinforcing failure Ã¢â'¬Â¦

perhaps the cardinal element, was the belief that the book was never closed, never ended. God was infinite; Man's understanding was not. And so, there would always be more for Man to learn, more for God to teach him, and as the doctrine of the Test taught, it was best to pay attention to one's lessons, whatever the form in which they might come.

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.

She'd headed the terraforming teams, and it was her leadership which had carried the task through to success. She and her people, watched over by Kau-yung's flagship, TFNS Gulliver, had battled the planet into submission while most of the colony fleet had waited, motionless, holding station in the depths of interstellar space, light-years from the nearest star.

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you should never ascribe to malice what can be put down to incompetence.

A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.

recipient and that, as a surprise honeymoon gift, I'd

swung the door shut behind him.

Parallel worlds, right? Aston nodded. Our sci-fi writers love 'em. They still do back home, Ludmilla assured him.

Falderson, he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, is as stupid as the day is long. He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

Snakelike butt-coverers, the whole lot of them.

logic, as the TFN knew, was often no more than a way of going wrong with confidence

What's conquered by the sword is owned only so long as the sword stays sharp. What's brought together in amity, in recognition of common needs and purpose—of common enemies—has the strength to stand even after swords are no longer required.

The mental pane of glass shattered.

A fool who knew a little was far more dangerous than someone who at least had the wit to admit he knew nothing.

but it's been my observation that justice is conspicuous by its absence when it comes to politics and entrenched, self-serving regimes.

if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.

only carry about a hundred

high-pitched wail of the emergency General Quarters

in a voice flat with the panic-resisting armor of training.