# Quotes/Passages that stick in your mind **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460 "2006-12-01T12:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/21 "2006-12-01T16:38:23Z")
_Murtaugh:_ God hates me. _Riggs:_ Hate him back. It works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/22 "2006-12-01T16:52:20Z")
“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid; neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee, withersoever thou goest.” - Joshua 1:9, KJV “Kids are great! You can teach them to hate the same things you do, and they practically raise themselves, what with the internet and all.” – Homer J. Simpson “The earth is hard, but the treasure fine. So deep will I dig.” – Gene Eugene ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/23 "2006-12-01T16:57:58Z")
Something important: Our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. George C Marshall Secretary of State 5 June 1946 Harvard Graduation Something to make you think: When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods. - Jacob Bronowski Two more favorites: P. J. O’Rourke A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense. George Orwell Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/24 "2006-12-01T17:37:28Z")
A ship in the harbor is safe. But that is not what ships are made for. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/25 "2006-12-01T17:50:40Z")
Lt. Frank Drebin on taking chances in life, from an episode of _Police Squad!_ (later reused in _The Naked Gun_): “You take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/26 "2006-12-01T17:50:41Z")
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:10 I read that in the bulletin at church one day maybe 10 years ago and kept the bulletin. I kept loving the quote so much that I got it tattooed (the passage name) on my leg. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/27 "2006-12-01T18:27:07Z")
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to tell which was which.” –George Orwell (_Animal Farm_) “If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.” –Q (“Q Who”) “You don’t like the Goths?” “No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!” “Persecution?” Padway raised his eyebrows. “Religious persecution. We won’t stand for it forever.” “I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased.” “That’s just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their business unmolested, as if they owned the country. If that isn’t persecution, I’d like to know what is!” –L. Sprague deCamp (_Lest Darkness Fall_) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/28 "2006-12-01T18:29:33Z")
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread And having once turned round, walks on And turns no more his head Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. —Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge Brrr! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/29 "2006-12-01T18:43:46Z")
"I used to go around thinking that lie was unfair, and then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe” ~Marcus Cole, _Babylon 5_ ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/30 "2006-12-01T18:47:45Z")
“A noble spirit embiggens …” ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/31 "2006-12-01T19:12:54Z")
When I was in architecture school above the doorway of our studio on the doorframe were scrawled the words **“Illegitimi non carborundum”** in black marker. When we finished our projects and it was time to haul them down to the presentation area to present them to a jury of professors and visiting architects where you would have to defend your work against their critiques, we would hit the saying with our hands on the way out of studio. Loosely translated from Latin it means “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/32 "2006-12-01T19:14:04Z")
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. –Herbert Spencer It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/33 "2006-12-01T19:22:38Z")
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation”. “Fiat justitia et ruat caelum” (Let justice be done though the heavens fall). ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/34 "2006-12-01T19:37:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent] “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation”. [/QUOTE] I generally find that violence is the _first_ refuge for many incompetent people. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/35 "2006-12-01T20:30:02Z")
“Culture, born of society, eventually kills society.” **Andre Gide** - _The Immoralist_ ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/36 "2006-12-01T20:30:07Z")
“When the fox hears the rabbit scream he comes a-runnin’… but not to help.” -Hannibal This always makes me think how something that is so much a regular part of nature, can seem so sinister and cruel. “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” -Stalin “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust, and when you’re up, it’s never as good as it seems, and when you’re down, you never think you’ll be up again. But life goes on. - Blow ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/37 "2006-12-01T20:36:56Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] “Fuck you. I hate your fucking guts.” Oh…you mean _published_ quotes. Nevermind… [/QUOTE] “I don’t think I ever really loved you.” “He expressed himself as well as someone violently in love can be expected to.” –Pride and Prejudice ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/38 "2006-12-01T20:41:15Z")
"… Who shall remember my house, where shall live My children’s children, when the time of sorrow is come? They shall take to the goat’s path, and the fox’s home Fleeing from the foreign faces and the foreign swords… Before the time of cords and scourges and lamentation Grant us thy peace. Before the stations of the mountain of desolation, Before the certain hour of maternal sorrow, Now at this birth season of decease, Let the Infant, the still unspeaking and unspoken Word, Grant Israel’s consolation To one who has eighty years and no to-morrow. -_A Song for Simeon_, T. S. Eliot ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/39 "2006-12-01T21:14:57Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] “I have measured out my life in coffee spoon.” [/QUOTE] [ultra nitpick] I have measured out my life _ **with** _ coffee spoon_ **s** _ [/ultra nitpick] Sorry, I’m still working on my OCD. from [here](http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/781.html), an excellent resource on poets and poetry ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460/40 "2006-12-01T21:22:21Z")
In the real world As in dreams Nothing is quite What it seems _–The Book of Counted Sorrows_ Don’t know why, but that passage crosses my mind at least once a day…has for years now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-passages-that-stick-in-your-mind/382460.md?page=3)