# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/41 "2000-06-22T04:00:35Z")
A-714 _Here Guthlac the saint passed away._ ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/42 "2000-06-22T05:27:18Z")
This’ll bring me into this. I’ll be using _Faust_. The English translation I’m using will be that of Stuart Atkins. I’ll indicate the speaker and line numbers. Faust : "If only I might see that people’s teeming life, share their autonomy on unencumbered soil; then, to the moment, I could say : 'tarry a while, you are so fair – the traces of my days on earth will survive into eternity! – Envisioning those heights of happiness, I now enjoy my highest moment. (_FAUST falls backward and is caught by the LEMURES, who lay him on the ground_) ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/43 "2000-06-22T06:52:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > A-714 > _Here Guthlac the saint passed away._ > \*\* John 19:30 “… he said, it is finished, and gave up the ghost” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/44 "2000-06-22T07:01:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > This’ll bring me into this. > Faust : > "If only I might see that people’s teeming life, > share their autonomy on unencumbered soil; > then, to the moment, I could say : > 'tarry a while, you are so fair – > the traces of my days on earth > will survive into eternity! – > Envisioning those heights of happiness, > I now enjoy my highest moment. > (_FAUST falls backward and is caught by the LEMURES, who lay him on the ground_) > \*\* Eccl:1:2-4 “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity; What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth fro ever.” ---
**Author:** ![Iolanthe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7bcc69/32.png) [@Iolanthe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iolanthe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/45 "2000-06-22T21:17:24Z")
This is fun. This is great fun. One day, if I ever work up the nerve, I’m challenging **Dry** to a battle of Shakespeare quotes. But until that day… I’m using quotes from **Homicide: Life on the Street** > [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > 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 > \*\* (On a very sad note, this is what came to mind when I read about Wally. It fits.) “It’s not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title…He is in all sense a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.” - John Munch, Scene of the Crime, Homicide: Life on the Street ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/46 "2000-06-22T22:49:10Z")
> [@](#): > > “It’s not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title…He is in all sense a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.” 500 BC CONFUCIAN ANALECTS Confucius (Sorry, my source is all one long document, so reference is same) The philosopher Tsang said, "The officer may not be without breadth of mind and vigorous endurance. His burden is heavy and his course is long. "Perfect virtue is the burden which he considers it is his to sustain;-is it not heavy? Only with death does his course stop;-is it not long? ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/47 "2000-06-23T00:30:51Z")
“Like horseshoes he forges decree after decree- Some get it in the forehead, some in the brow, some in the groin, and some in the eye. Whatever the execution- it’s raspberry to him And his Georgian chest is broad.” -Osip Mandelsatm 1934- Osip ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/48 "2000-06-23T00:39:47Z")
\*\* [/QUOTE] “It’s not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title…He is in all sense a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.” - John Munch, Scene of the Crime, Homicide: Life on the Street \*\* [/QUOTE] prov14:20 “he that handleth a matter wisely shall find good…” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/49 "2000-06-23T00:44:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > The philosopher Tsang said, "The officer may not be without > breadth of mind and vigorous endurance. His burden is heavy and his course is long. > "Perfect virtue is the burden which he considers it is his to sustain;-is it not heavy? Only with death does his course stop;-is it not long? > > \*\* Prov25:2 “It is the glory of g-d to conceal a thing; but the honour of kings is to search out a matter” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/50 "2000-06-23T00:48:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > “Like horseshoes he forges decree after decree- > Some get it in the forehead, some in the brow, > some in the groin, and some in the eye. > Whatever the execution- it’s raspberry to him > And his Georgian chest is broad.” > -Osip Mandelsatm 1934- > Osip > \*\* Prov25:3 “the heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of a king is unsearchable”. ---
**Author:** ![jamshid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jamshid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jamshid)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/51 "2000-06-23T01:32:03Z")
I shall endeavour to keep up the pace. My books of choice are the collected works of Mark Twain. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: “Many a time I had seen a couple of boys, strangers, meet by chance, and say simultaneously, “I can lick you,” and go at it on the spot; but I had always imagined until now that that sort of thing belonged to children only, and was a sign and mark of childhood; but here were these big boobies sticking to it and taking pride in it clear up into full age and beyond. Yet there was some- thing very engaging about these great simple-hearted creatures, something attractive and lovable. There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fish-hook with; but you didn’t seem to mind that, after a little, because you soon saw that brains were not needed in a society like that, and in- deed would have marred it, hindered it, spoiled its sym- metry – perhaps rendered its existence impossible.” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/52 "2000-06-23T04:11:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Eccl:1:2-4 “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity; What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth fro ever.” (275-280) MEPHISTOPHELES : “I’m sorry I can’t offer high-flown language, not even though all here assembled may deride me; pathos from me, in any case, would make You laugh if You had not stopped laughing long ago. I’ve no remarks to make about the sun or planets, I merely see how mankind toils and moils.” Missed the lines for my last one, those were 11579-11587. ---
**Author:** ![jamshid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jamshid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jamshid)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/53 "2000-06-23T04:34:13Z")
You make my life easy: “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/54 "2000-06-23T04:38:54Z")
> [@](#): > > I shall endeavour to keep up the pace. > > My books of choice are the collected works of Mark Twain. > > A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: > “Many a time I had seen a couple of boys, strangers, meet by > chance, and say simultaneously, “I can lick you,” and > go at it on the spot; but I had always imagined until > now that that sort of thing belonged to children only, > and was a sign and mark of childhood; but here were > these big boobies sticking to it and taking pride in it > clear up into full age and beyond. Yet there was some- > thing very engaging about these great simple-hearted > creatures, something attractive and lovable. There did > not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so > to speak, to bait a fish-hook with; but you didn’t seem > to mind that, after a little, because you soon saw that > brains were not needed in a society like that, and in- > deed would have marred it, hindered it, spoiled its sym- > metry – perhaps rendered its existence impossible.” I’ll go for the first one first : (2181-2182) MEPH. : “Simple folk never sense the devil’s presence, not even when his hands are on their throats.” ---
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/55 "2000-06-23T04:52:14Z")
E-787 [789] ( The scribe made an error in the dating, the 2nd date is correct. ) _…And in his days came the first 3 ships of Northmen from Hordaland: and then the reeve rode down there and wanted to compel them to go to the king’s town because he did not know what they were; and then they killed him. These were the first ships of the Danish men which sought out the land of the English race._ ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/56 "2000-06-23T06:43:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I shall endeavour to keep up the pace. > > My books of choice are the collected works of Mark Twain. > > A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: > “Many a time I had seen a couple of boys, strangers, meet by > chance, and say simultaneously, “I can lick you,” and > go at it on the spot; but I had always imagined until > now that that sort of thing belonged to children only, > and was a sign and mark of childhood; but here were > these big boobies sticking to it and taking pride in it > clear up into full age and beyond. Yet there was some- > thing very engaging about these great simple-hearted > creatures, something attractive and lovable. There did > not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so > to speak, to bait a fish-hook with; but you didn’t seem > to mind that, after a little, because you soon saw that > brains were not needed in a society like that, and in- > deed would have marred it, hindered it, spoiled its sym- > metry – perhaps rendered its existence impossible.” > \*\* Prov. 12:15-16 “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes…A fool’s wrath is presently known” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/57 "2000-06-23T06:47:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > (275-280) MEPHISTOPHELES : > “I’m sorry I can’t offer high-flown language, > not even though all here assembled may deride me; > pathos from me, in any case, would make You laugh > if You had not stopped laughing long ago. > I’ve no remarks to make about the sun or planets, > I merely see how mankind toils and moils.” > > \*\* Prov 17:22 “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/58 "2000-06-23T06:51:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > “Simple folk never sense the devil’s presence, > not even when his hands are on their throats.” > > \*\* prov16:18 “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/59 "2000-06-23T06:54:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > _…And in his days came the first 3 ships of Northmen from Hordaland: and then the reeve rode down there and wanted to compel them to go to the king’s town because he did not know what they were; and then they killed him. These were the first ships of the Danish men which sought out the land of the English race._ > > \*\* Gen. 4:8 " …and it came to pass…that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him" ---
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959/60 "2000-06-23T07:11:48Z")
E-1052 _…And then Earl Godwine turned out again until he came back to Bruges; and the other ships made their way back again to Sandwich. And then it was decided that these ships should turn back again to London, and that other earls and other oarsmen should be set for the ships. Then it was delayed so long that the ship-campaign was wholly abandoned and they all made their way home…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dueling-quotes/22959.md?page=4)