# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/101 "2017-10-26T18:31:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > “There are two types of people in this world. Those who can count, those who can’t, and those who can, but do it badly.” - Anon. “There are 10 types of people in this world – those who understand binary, and those who don’t.” “There are two types of people in this world – those who separate people into two types, and those who don’t.” "There are two types of people in this world – those who finish what they started, and ---
**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 26, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/102 "2017-10-26T19:53:17Z")
“I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realize it’s me.” “A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.” \* —Dave Allen\* ---
**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 27, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/103 "2017-10-27T05:13:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realize it’s me.” > > “A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.” > \* > —Dave Allen\* For that first quote, you’ve pretty much described every Vietnam War vet still traipsing around Southeast Asia (except now it’s become 40 or more years ago). For the second, that was the mantra of an American journalist and essayist I worked with in Bangkok. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/104 "2017-10-29T04:24:26Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > "There are two types of people in this world – those who finish what they started, and “There are two types of people in this world – those who can extrapolate from incomplete data…” ---
**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 29, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/105 "2017-10-29T17:59:09Z")
“My boys need room!” _—Cosmo Kramer_ ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/106 "2017-10-29T19:59:28Z")
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” - Aral Vorkosigan, _A Civil Campaign_ “The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.” - Mark Twain “The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.” - Mark Twain > [@The Two Towers](#): > > A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful; and there great lords had dwelt, the wardens of Gondor upon the West, and wise men that watched the stars. But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better, as he thought, being deceived—for all those arts and subtle devices, for which he foresook his former wisdom, and which fondly imagined were his own, came but from Mordor, so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child’s model or a slave’s flattery, of that vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength. ---
**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 29, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/107 "2017-10-29T21:19:07Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” - Aral Vorkosigan, _A Civil Campaign_ “Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” - Abraham Lincoln ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/108 "2017-11-14T05:59:58Z")
A principle that can’t bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn’t worthy of the name. — Louisa May Alcott, _An Old-fashioned Girl_ ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/109 "2017-11-14T16:11:31Z")
“One man’s ball sweat is another man’s fragrant musk.” _—The Onion_ ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/110 "2017-11-14T21:35:09Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > “Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” - Abraham Lincoln “Burnside is the only person I know of who can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” _Abraham Lincoln_ ---
**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:** [December 6, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/111 "2017-12-06T05:12:23Z")
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” – Walt Whitman ---
**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:** [December 6, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/112 "2017-12-06T12:41:14Z")
“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that.” “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” _—George Carlin_ ---
**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:** [December 9, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/113 "2017-12-09T07:08:01Z")
“Maybe the People are always those who used to live the generation before last.” – John Steinbeck, in answer to a man decrying the depths to which the current crop of Americans had sunk. And this was in 1960! ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/114 "2017-12-09T21:42:56Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > “There are 10 types of people in this world – those who understand binary, and those who don’t.” What do you call someone who doesn’t understand hexadecimal? How the fifteen should I know?! ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/115 "2017-12-09T21:47:15Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > “Those who often quote others have no original thoughts of their own.” _Oscar Wilde_ > [@standingwave](#): > > A witty saying proves nothing. > Voltaire “The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.” - W Somerset Maugham ---
**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:** [December 9, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/116 "2017-12-09T21:52:13Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > “Maybe the People are always those who used to live the generation before last.” – John Steinbeck, in answer to a man decrying the depths to which the current crop of Americans had sunk. And this was in 1960! “Baby Boomers—the most insufferable generation ever.” —_Cracked_ ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/117 "2017-12-09T22:05:34Z")
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” – Paul Dirac “Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.” – Opening lines of “States of Matter”, by D. L. Goodstein “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams “Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein ---
**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:** [December 9, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457/118 "2017-12-09T22:10:47Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > What do you call someone who doesn’t understand hexadecimal? > How the fifteen should I know?! Why do software engineers celebrate Christmas on Halloween? Because 25 DEC = 31 OCT. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-quotes-nonreligious/799457.md?page=5)