Beware the sleeping dragon. For when she awakes the Earth will shake [On China].

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.

Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.