# Dueling Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959 "2000-06-20T08:13:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/1 "2000-06-20T08:13:45Z")
Dry & I are starting a literary battle of wits. He will use Shakespeare, and I get the Bible. Anyone else is welcome to join in, but if you want to do more than just post an occasional “well struck!” or “foul” or “OWWW”, then you have to follow the rules. 1. You get a literary source, and not one used by anyone else. Just one. 2. In order to keep it up to IMHO status, we will use educational sources, not “Milton Berles Laff book”, ie Great Books. 3. And, yes, it is a duel, and yes it will be slightly flame-like, but we are only playing “can you top this”, not really being nasty. Fire one! Prov. 19:1 “Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and a fool”. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/2 "2000-06-20T08:17:06Z")
Does Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series count? Or could I only use one book from the series? ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/3 "2000-06-20T08:30:45Z")
GREAT books, you…you… Prov5:23 “He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray”. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/4 "2000-06-20T08:42:23Z")
I don’t get the goal here, but I like the concept. I’ll go with the screenplay to Pulp Fiction, truly a great work… Jules: “It ain’t no ballpark either. Look maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but touchin’ his lady’s feet, and stickin’ your tongue in her holyiest of holyies, ain’t the same ballpark, ain’t the same league, ain’t even the same fuckin’ sport. Foot massages don’t mean shit.” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/5 "2000-06-20T09:18:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Prov. 19:1 “Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and a fool”. > \*\* “O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise” –Hamlet, Act 3, scene ii ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/6 "2000-06-20T09:24:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > GREAT books, you…you… Prov5:23 “He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray”. > \*\* “I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels” –King Henry VIII, Act 3, scene ii ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/7 "2000-06-20T09:25:11Z")
Prov.12:1 “Who so loveth instruction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/8 "2000-06-20T09:28:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > “It ain’t no ballpark either. Look maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but touchin’ his lady’s feet, and stickin’ your tongue in her holyiest of holyies, ain’t the same ballpark, ain’t the same league, ain’t even the same fuckin’ sport. Foot massages don’t mean shit.” > \*\* “Comparisons are odorous” –Much Ado about Nothing, Act 3, scene v ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/9 "2000-06-20T09:33:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Prov.12:1 “Who so loveth instruction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish” > \*\* “O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!” –Much Ado about Nothing, Act 4, scene i ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/10 "2000-06-20T09:49:45Z")
Prov15:14 “The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge, but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/11 "2000-06-20T09:52:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I don’t get the goal here, but I like the concept. I’ll go with the screenplay to Pulp Fiction, truly a great work… > > Jules: “It ain’t no ballpark either. Look maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but touchin’ his lady’s feet, and stickin’ your tongue in her holyiest of holyies, ain’t the same ballpark, ain’t the same league, ain’t even the same fuckin’ sport. Foot massages don’t mean shit.” > \*\* Prov15:4 “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness is a breach in the spirit” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/12 "2000-06-20T09:53:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Prov15:14 “The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge, but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness” > \*\* “And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.” –Richard III, Act 1, scene iii ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/13 "2000-06-20T09:56:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Prov15:4 “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness is a breach in the spirit” > \*\* “What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.” –King Henry VI, Act 3, scene ii ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/14 "2000-06-20T09:57:36Z")
but I’m off to bed: “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” –Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scene ii ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/15 "2000-06-20T09:58:34Z")
Prov 14:9 “Fools make a mock of sin; but amoung the righteous there is favor” ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/16 "2000-06-20T18:03:05Z")
I am choosing the script for **Reservoir Dogs** as my text. > [@](#): > > Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." > –Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scene ii MR. PINK: “Like a Virgin” is all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The whole song is a metaphor for big dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Occam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Occam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Occam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/17 "2000-06-20T19:37:09Z")
I’ll use ‘Full Metal Jacket’. Prov 14:9 “Fools make a mock of sin; but amoung the righteous there is favor” "I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless! -Gunnery Sergeant Hartman ---
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/18 "2000-06-21T01:31:49Z")
I will just be kibitzing though. My source is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. I am using Michael Swanton’s translation and notation: ## A= The Winchester Manuscript A2= The Wheloc Manuscript B= The Elder Abington Manuscript C= The Younger Abington Manuscript ( incorporating the Mercian Register ) D= The Worcester Manuscript E= The Peterborough Manuscript F= The Canturbury Manuscript ( The manuscript notation is followed by the year of the entry) **Danielinthewolvesden** : E-654 _And he was a great friend of God, and all people loved him, and he was very nobly born and powerful. He is now much more powerful with Christ._ ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/19 "2000-06-21T02:38:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I am choosing the script for **Reservoir Dogs** as my text. > > MR. PINK: > “Like a Virgin” is all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The whole song is a metaphor for big dicks. > \*\* Sol.5:15 “His legs are as pillars of marble…” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/20 "2000-06-21T02:41:47Z")
[QUOTE] \*\* I’ll use ‘Full Metal Jacket’. "I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless! -Gunnery Sergeant Hartman \*\*[/QUOTE Prov. 14:35 “the King’s favor is toward a wise servant; but his wrath is against him that causeth shame” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959.md?page=2)