# Anyone got a great quote about swords? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589 "2004-05-11T06:20:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/1 "2004-05-11T06:20:38Z")
I’m asking for a friend (her husband collects swords). TIA! ---
**Author:** ![cmason32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmason32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmason32)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/2 "2004-05-11T06:29:40Z")
_You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some Watery Tart threw a sword at you!_ ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/3 "2004-05-11T06:41:04Z")
“Steel true, blade straight.”—Epitaph of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Well, it’s not _really_ about swords…but it still sounds good. Or, that bit from the begging of _Conan the Barbarian_, young Conan’s father’s lesson… > [@](#): > > Fire and Wind come from the Sky, from the Gods of the Sky. > But your God is Crom, and he lives in the Earth. > > Once Giants lived in the Earth, Conan, > and in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, > and took from him the enigma of Steel. > > Crom was angered and the Earth shook, > and Fire and Wind struck down these giants, > and threw their bodies onto the waters. > > But in their rage, > the Gods forgot the secret of Steel > and left it on the battlefield. > > And we who found it, are just men, > Not Gods, Not Giants, just men. > > The Secret of Steel had always carried with it a mystery, > you must its secret Conan, you must learn its discipline. > > For no one, on one on this earth can you trust, > not men, not women, not beasts, > > _lifts sword_, _this_ you can trust. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/4 "2004-05-11T10:22:00Z")
I have a button that I put on my fencing bag every so often. It reads “Any excuse to wear a sword is a good excuse!” Now, where’s **Sweetums** when he’s needed? CJ ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/5 "2004-05-11T10:28:31Z")
_But just as lightning equalizes the tension in two differently charged strata of the air, so will the sword always be, and remain till the end of the world, the finally decisive factor._ Friedrich Wilhelm ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/6 "2004-05-11T10:29:06Z")
“They jest at scars that never felt a wound.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/7 "2004-05-11T10:54:11Z")
Isaiah 2:4 > [@](#): > > And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Alternatively: Joel 3:10 > [@](#): > > Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/8 "2004-05-11T11:00:06Z")
Matthew 10:34 > [@](#): > > Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 26:52 > [@](#): > > Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Luke 22:36 > [@](#): > > Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/9 "2004-05-11T11:11:33Z")
**From “Saturday Night Live”:** Trebek: Okay, let’s just move on. Burt, can you please pick a category. Connery: Pick Swords. Reynolds: Yeah, sure, gimme Swords. Trebek: It’s “S” Words. It’s “S” Words. And for how much, Mr. Reynolds? Reynolds: Ah, hell, let’s go nuts, Swords for $48,000. Trebek: We’re not doing Swords. You know, why don’t we move on to Final Jeopardy. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/10 "2004-05-11T11:15:19Z")
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/11 "2004-05-11T11:16:36Z")
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/12 "2004-05-11T11:23:42Z")
The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp - Terry Pratchett ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/13 "2004-05-11T12:44:58Z")
Peace through superior swordplay. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/14 "2004-05-11T12:46:48Z")
_Those who beat their swords into plowshares will soon be plowing for those who don’t."_ ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/15 "2004-05-11T12:49:06Z")
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever. Edmund Burke ---
**Author:** ![electrozion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@electrozion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electrozion)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/16 "2004-05-11T13:05:45Z")
“The game of chess is like a sword fight - you must think first, before you move” (from an intro on the Wu Tang Clans “36 Chambers” LP - originally from some old ovie I don’t know) ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/17 "2004-05-11T14:06:22Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > I > Now, where’s **Sweetums** when he’s needed? > CJ ``` Oooh a challenge! ``` I choose for my weapons, not my shining blade, but “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” and Stevenson’s “Home Book of Quotations” Better to die with the sword, than by the sword SAMUEL DANIEL, History of the Civil War He knew me and named me The War thing, the comrade, Father of honor, and giver of kingship, The fame-smith, the song-master, Bringer of women. W.E. HENLEY, The Song of the Sword I’ll Make thee glorious by my pen, And Famous by my sword JAMES GRAHAM, My dear and Only Love Why, then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Sweetums Swordsman, Reference Librarian, Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/18 "2004-05-11T14:07:10Z")
A good sword is the one left in its scabbard. –Japanese proverb A short sword for a brave man. –French proverb God grant me a good sword and no use for it. –Polish proverb An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword. –George Herbert, 17th century Welsh poet and cleric. Many more can be found [here](http://www.worldofquotes.com/index.php). ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/19 "2004-05-11T14:12:53Z")
THE BORE: The Duke has a long arm! CYRANO: But not so long As mine, when it is lengthened out . . . (Shows his sword): As thus! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/20 "2004-05-11T14:36:51Z")
Ooooh, another one: "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise King born of all England. " _Malory: Le Morte d’Arthur_ There’s a bucket load of sword quotes [here](http://www.howardianswordclub.gothere.uk.com/Howardian_quotes.htm) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589.md?page=2)