# Notable Quotes (Nonreligious) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457 "2017-10-21T18:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/41 "2017-10-22T19:46:11Z")
“A thousand throats can be cut in a single night by a running man.”\* _—Klingon proverb_ \*Or maybe four thousand; who knows? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/42 "2017-10-22T19:48:31Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > It’s great to have a dad who can give you advice like that when you need it! Number one! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/43 "2017-10-22T19:59:06Z")
“No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough.” – Roger Ebert ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/44 "2017-10-22T21:27:15Z")
“No movie should be longer than two hours, the endurance of the human bladder.” and “Ingrid, it’s only a _moooovie_!” _—Alfred Hitchcock_ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/45 "2017-10-22T21:31:29Z")
“Yes we can’t!” _—Alfred E Obama, 2008_ [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/40/6b/5b406b0653a07a652d1a870da5629738.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/40/6b/5b406b0653a07a652d1a870da5629738.jpg)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/46 "2017-10-22T21:35:45Z")
One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. –Lao-Tzu “Men think themselves free because they are conscious of their volitions and desires, but are ignorant of the causes by which they are led to wish and desire.” -Spinoza ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/47 "2017-10-22T22:18:49Z")
“Well son, a funny thing about regret is - that it’s better to regret something you _have_ done, than to regret something you _haven’t_ done.” - Butthole Surfers, “Sweat Loaf”, from their _Locust Abortion Technician_ album. “Your best? Lo-szhers always whine about their best…Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.” - Sean Connery, _The Rock_ “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” - I’m sure it’s ancient - the first time I heard it was from Tom Waits on _ **Fernwood Tonight** _ ('79?) Speaking of _FT_ - [“If we can’t kid each other - WHO CAN WE KID?”](https://youtu.be/jWgcghQAeEo?t=181) I have been lauded as a bounteous fount for this kind of thing, hence - “I shall return”. Interesting that trolling here would get be getting all religious-y. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/48 "2017-10-22T22:43:53Z")
Shrewdness is a one-dimensional form of intelligence, an intelligence that does not evaluate but merely pursues. - Bill James ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/49 "2017-10-23T01:25:01Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > … > “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” - I’m sure it’s ancient - the first time I heard it was from Tom Waits on _ **Fernwood Tonight** _ ('79?) > … Came her to post that…you win! I would have credited \*VARIOUS \* You will EAT IT and God Damned like it!! _my mom_ Improvise, overcome and adapt! \*various training seminars \* There is no I in teamwork! _some idiot who did not see the ME_ What doesn’t kill you,make you stronger! _some dead guy_ I regret that I have but one life ! _me, just now_ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/50 "2017-10-23T01:45:57Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > Came her to post that…you win! I would have credited \*VARIOUS \* ::tips hat::Figured I’d do some internet snoopin on the bottle/lobotomy thing and apparently it’s from a comic I never heard of - [Fred Allen](https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/fredallen384342.html). Before my time, I spose. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/51 "2017-10-23T04:00:30Z")
“Make one mistake and you pay for it the rest of your life.” \* —Snoopy\* ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/52 "2017-10-23T05:34:14Z")
“No, I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them.”–Edith Wharton “Enjoy the war. The peace will be terrible.”–Anon. German officer in early 1945 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/53 "2017-10-23T13:49:56Z")
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” - George Washington ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/54 "2017-10-23T16:53:06Z")
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from mistakes. Mistakes come from bad judgment. “The race is not always to the swift nor the fight to the strong- but that’s the way to bet.” - Damon Runyan “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. Then give up. No sense being a damn fool about it.” - WC FIelds ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/55 "2017-10-23T18:12:14Z")
> [@](#): > > I thought we could use a thread featuring quotes that offered insight or inspiration. And since this is my thread, I am prohibiting **religious guff**. [Religious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer), but not guff, IMO: _O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other._ ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/56 "2017-10-23T19:01:24Z")
“If they move, kill 'em.” - William Holden in\* The Wild Bunch\* ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > “Failure is always an option.” > > _—Anonymous_ Internet rule 14: If you fail badly enough, could it not be considered an epic fail? “Those who often quote others have no original thoughts of their own.” _Oscar Wilde_ ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/58 "2017-10-23T22:10:02Z")
‘Work is the curse of the drinking classes’ - Oscar Wilde. ‘Vestis virum reddit / Clothes make the man.’ - Quintilian (among others). ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/59 "2017-10-23T23:28:46Z")
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/60 "2017-10-24T01:59:37Z")
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