Howard Tayler Quotes

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

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.

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/

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

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

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

Only cheaters prosper.

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.