# 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:** 2
**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, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/21 "2000-06-21T02:44:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > **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._ > > \*\* Prov. 15:1 “A soft answer turneth away wrath…” ---
**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, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/22 "2000-06-21T03:15:39Z")
**Danielinthewolvesden** : E-991 _Here Ipswich was raided, and very soon after that Ealdorman Byrhtnoth was killed at Maldon; and in that year it was first decided tax be paid to the Danish men because of the great terror which they had wrought along the sea coast. That was at first 10 thousand pounds. Archbishop Sigeric decided on the decision._ ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/23 "2000-06-21T07:01:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > 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. > \*\* “I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.” –Othello, Act 5, 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 21, 2000, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/24 "2000-06-21T07:12:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Prov 14:9 “Fools make a mock of sin; but amoung the righteous there is favor” > \*\* “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” –As You Like It, Act 5, scene i > [@](#): > > \*\* > "I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless! > -Gunnery Sergeant Hartman > \*\* “The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance” –Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, 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 21, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/25 "2000-06-21T07:16:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > _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._ > \*\* “And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.” –King Henry VIII, 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 21, 2000, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/26 "2000-06-21T07:20:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Sol.5:15 “His legs are as pillars of marble…” > \*\* “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.” –Hamlet, Act 1, 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 21, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/27 "2000-06-21T07:26:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Prov. 14:35 “the King’s favor is toward a wise servant; but his wrath is against him that causeth shame” > \*\* “For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear’d and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable, and humour’d thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!” –Richard II, 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 21, 2000, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/28 "2000-06-21T07:30:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > \*\* Prov. 15:1 “A soft answer turneth away wrath…” \*\* [/QUOTE] “You may as well say, that’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.” –King Henry V, Act 3, scene vii ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/29 "2000-06-21T07:34:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > _Here Ipswich was raided, and very soon after that Ealdorman Byrhtnoth was killed at Maldon; and in that year it was first decided tax be paid to the Danish men because of the great terror which they had wrought along the sea coast. That was at first 10 thousand pounds. Archbishop Sigeric decided on the decision._ > \*\* “The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other’s watch: Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other’s umber’d face; Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night’s dull ear, and from the tents The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation” –King Henry V, Prologue to Act 4 ---
**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, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/30 "2000-06-21T08:02:37Z")
\*\* [/QUOTE] “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” –As You Like It, Act 5, scene i [QUOTE] \*\* Prov. 29:1 “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/31 "2000-06-21T08:08:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Prov. 29:1 “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy” > \*\* “To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d.” –Hamlet, Act 3, 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 21, 2000, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/32 "2000-06-21T08:43:33Z")
Fast on those quotes, eh, DRY? prov.29:20 “seest thou a man who is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/33 "2000-06-21T08:48:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Fast on those quotes, eh, DRY? > > prov.29:20 “seest thou a man who is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him” > \*\* Daniel…is it just me, or do have your biblical references have “fool” in them? “I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad” –As You Like It, 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 21, 2000, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/34 "2000-06-21T09:05:27Z")
It’s a word that the KJV translators were fond of using instead of a few possible stronger words. We could ask our Hebrew experts what the actual translations are. However, re experiences-Eccl.1:9 “That thing that hath been, it IS that which shall be; and that which is done IS that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/35 "2000-06-21T09:13:04Z")
Of course, in my previous post, the first “have” should have been “half”–“do HALF your posts have ‘fool’ in them?” > [@](#): > > \*\* > Eccl.1:9 “That thing that hath been, it IS that which shall be; and that which is done IS that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” > \*\* “We defy augury: there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?” –Hamlet, Act 5, 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 21, 2000, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/36 "2000-06-21T09:39:51Z")
Eccl.3-8 "For every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to sow, and a time to reap; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain; A time to get, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace. and on that note, to bed for me. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/37 "2000-06-21T09:50:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Eccl.3-8 "For every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven; > A time to be born, and a time to die; > A time to sow, and a time to reap; > A time to kill, and a time to heal; > A time to break down, and a time to build up; > A time to weep, and a time to laugh; > A time to mourn, and a time to dance; > A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather together; > A time to embrace, and a time to refrain; > A time to get, and a time to lose; > A time to keep, and a time to cast away; > A time to rend, and a time to sew; > A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; > A time to love, and a time to hate; > A time of war, and a time of peace. > and on that note, to bed for me. > \*\* “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in YOUR philosophy.” –Hamlet, Act 1, scene v (emphasis mine) Good night: “To sleep: perchance to dream” –Hamlet, Act 3, 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 21, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/38 "2000-06-21T21:30:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, > Than are dreamt of in YOUR philosophy.” > –Hamlet, Act 1, scene v (emphasis mine) > > \*\* Gen1:1 “Bereshith, God created the heaven & the earth” ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/39 "2000-06-21T21:49:54Z")
Hope it’s OK to join in… A lot of people got very philosophical here today, I thought Confucius may be a good source: 500 BC CONFUCIAN ANALECTS Confucius The philosopher Tsang being ill, Meng Chang went to ask how he was. Tsang said to him, “When a bird is about to die, its notes are mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are good.” Appropriate for today… ---
**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, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/40 "2000-06-21T22:46:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > 500 BC > CONFUCIAN ANALECTS > Confucius > > The philosopher Tsang being ill, Meng Chang went to ask how he was. Tsang said to him, “When a bird is about to die, its notes are mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are good.” > > Appropriate for today… > > \*\* Mark.15:34 “And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi,la’ma sabach’thani” or Luke 23:43 “…Verily, I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959.md?page=3)