# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/21 "2004-05-11T14:42:03Z")
I had a pendant with “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another” and two swords crossed above it. It’s from Proverbs 27:17. It looked well cool. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/22 "2004-05-11T15:20:54Z")
Another translation of a good one already provided by **DesertGeezer** : “The finest blade stays in the scabbard.” - Iaido saying ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/23 "2004-05-11T16:28:03Z")
Sword lovers live life to the hilt! (I just made that up) Upon offering someone a shot of rotgut liquor: “This will put a hinge in your sword.” ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/24 "2004-05-11T16:56:51Z")
If you’ve got room for silly, here’s one that you’ll find on bumpers at pretty much every Ren Faire: _I like men in short kilts with long swords_ ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/25 "2004-05-11T17:03:10Z")
From _Bowling for Columbine_: “I use the pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword. But you must always keep a sword handy for when the pen fails.” -James Nichols _Kill Bill Volume 2_ “That’s right. I killed your master. And now I’m gonna kill you, with your own sword, no less, which in the very immediate future, will become… my sword.” -Ellie Driver ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/26 "2004-05-11T17:35:35Z")
> [@Sweetums](#): > > Sweetums > Swordsman, Reference Librarian, Doper. I am curious, sir, how you come by the appelation of a swordsman. If you would? ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/27 "2004-05-11T18:09:19Z")
You can have my sword when they pry it from your cold, dead abdomen. ---
**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, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/28 "2004-05-11T18:22:59Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > I am curious, sir, how you come by the appelation of a swordsman. > > If you would? ``` Long tiime SCA member. Companion of the Order of the White Scarf. I have also studied kendo, and other Eastern martial arts. Besides the SCA I have done quite a bit of outside study in the Western martial arts, particularly the documents of Marazzo, Saviolo, and DiGrassi. Much of this study has been put to practical use in raising the bar for many of the SCA fencers in my area. I and others have been instramantel in turnin the emphasis from just a game to a scolarly pursuit. I am often called on to provide sword training to local actors, though I am not a member of SAFD I have had some degree of training in that respect as well. ``` So, if such can be said to exist in this modern era, I am a swordsman. ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/29 "2004-05-11T18:25:46Z")
“Big gigantic knives don’t kill people. People kill people.” ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/30 "2004-05-11T18:41:09Z")
This isn’t verbatim because I don’t have the book with me, but I always enjoy this bit of Peter David’s _Sir Apropos of Nothing: The Woad to Wuin_: “My sword flashed, and my blood sang the song of death. Which, if you don’t know it, goes something like this – _death death death death death death death la la la la death death …_” It’s the lalas in the middle that always get me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/31 "2004-05-11T22:58:12Z")
“I am not left-handed.” ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/32 "2004-05-11T23:14:34Z")
Not exactly about swords, but close enough: > [@](#): > > **Soap** in _Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels_ > Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, fuck-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good, because they don’t make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. Shit 'em right up. Makes it look like we’re serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro. To which I believe the response was ‘Jesus Christ, Soap, I don’t want to know what you did in your past life.’ ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/33 "2004-05-12T00:04:14Z")
“I have a katana because it’s almost as effective as the chainsaw, and you can run with it. '” A friend of mine, talking about why he likes the katana in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/34 "2004-05-12T03:55:28Z")
Thanks so much everybody! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/35 "2004-05-12T07:08:46Z")
“The pointy end goes into the other man.” From “The Mask of Zorro” Tris ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/36 "2004-05-12T07:18:21Z")
LOL **Ross** And in a similar line of thinking: From a National Sword Association bumper sticker: “When _swords_ are outlawed, only _outlaws_ will have swords”. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/37 "2004-05-12T12:41:49Z")
Swords, not nukes. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/38 "2004-05-12T14:22:39Z")
Plures crapula quam gladius perdidit. Translation: “Drunkenness takes more lives than the sword.” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/39 "2004-05-12T16:11:53Z")
My old friend used to say that swords don’t jam, have no moving parts, and don’t need to be reloaded. He also said that if they run out of bullets, we’d be in charge. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589/40 "2004-05-12T17:51:30Z")
“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.” - Napoleon [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-got-a-great-quote-about-swords/244589.md?page=3)