1. "Two men walk into a bar. The first man orders a scotch and soda. The second man remembers something he'd forgotten, and it doubles him over with pain. He falls to the floor shaking and then through the floor and into the Earth. He looks back up at the first man, but he doesn't call out to him. They're not that close." Wesely from Angel

2. "come home with this shield or upon it." -a spartan mother equips her son

3. "spartans do not ask how many, but where they are." -?

4. Spartans MIA: Sam, spartan 001- last seen onboard on covenant ship before it blew. Holly, spartanG003- defending spartan kelly from a hunter on planet onyx. Will, spartan 043-fighting 2 hunters in hand to hand combat. Kurt, spartan 051/lieutenant commander kurtAmbrose-destroyed a covenant army on onyx with 2 nukes. Spartans dont die.

5. "you want peace, prepare for war."

6. true story: german soldierLt. Eberhard von Loebbecke stood ona secured bridge on the don river when a russian T-34 appear on the road ahead of him.the Lt. who had lost hisarm by a frence machingunner in france stood upright before the T-34. The russian tank fires a round at him, and and itticked his empty sleeve and explodeds a few yards behind him. he's knocked to the ground but imeadialty bounces back up on his feet to direct return fire. In their open turret, the Soviet crew stared in amazment at the man who had apparently lost his arm to the shell and yet bounced up off the ground without any discomfort. While they hesitated, a German AT gun put a found into the T-34, and it blew in front of Loebbeckes eyes. -page 193-194 in the book enemy at the gates the battle for stalingrad.

7. An old man wandering around the Olympic Games looking for a seat was jeered at by the crowd until he reached the seats of the Spartans, whereupon every Spartan younger than him, and some that were older, stood up and offered him their seat. The crowd applauded and the old man turned to them with a sigh, saying "All Greeks know what is right, but only the Spartans do it."

8. "Because we fight close to the enemy." King Agesilaos when asked why their swords were so short.

9. "Add a step forward to it." A Spartan mother to her son when he complained his sword was too short.

10. "Why is it you Spartan women are the only ones who rule over your men?" An Athenian Woman. "Because we are the only women too who give birth to real men." a Spartan woman.