# Share your own quotable quote! Also critique mine and others (please?). **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490 "2010-05-06T07:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Creole\_Tomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Creole\_Tomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creole_Tomato)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/21 "2010-05-06T20:38:50Z")
I don’t trust any beer I can see through, or any man I can’t. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/22 "2010-05-06T21:04:39Z")
Time flies when you’re in a coma. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/23 "2010-05-06T21:17:25Z")
You’re just renting my skills- you’re not buying my soul. Art is anything you can get away with. Always yield to anything which outmasses you by more than two thousand pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/24 "2010-05-06T21:34:00Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Art is anything you can get away with. This I like. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/25 "2010-05-06T22:09:08Z")
Art without inspiration is craft. Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand. (Ok, that was Homer Simpson) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/26 "2010-05-06T22:14:00Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Art without inspiration is craft. > > Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand. (Ok, that was Homer Simpson) Both good, but don’t you have another quote… I thought I remembered you saying something once before… Something about your mother, right? ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/27 "2010-05-07T05:36:00Z")
“There’s always a break in the traffic.” Meant literally, like when you are waiting to turn at a busy intersection. I feel it probably has some deep meaning as well, but I don’t know what that might be. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/28 "2010-05-07T06:07:11Z")
Never attribute to Malice what Stupidity explains just as easily. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/29 "2010-05-07T13:52:18Z")
> [@Weedy](#): > > “There’s always a break in the traffic.” Meant literally, like when you are waiting to turn at a busy intersection. I feel it probably has some deep meaning as well, but I don’t know what that might be. …unless you live in Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/30 "2010-05-07T14:04:03Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Both good, but don’t you have another quote… I thought I remembered you saying something once before… Something about your mother, right? Oooh! Yes, that’s a good one from _Blade Runner_: “My mother? Let me tell you about my mother…” Or were you thinking about that Spanish brat? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bearman217](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@bearman217](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bearman217)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/31 "2010-05-07T14:06:02Z")
I thought of another quote while at work today. “Trust is something earned but not stolen, while stealing is how you earn something without trust.” We were discussing reporting thefts to management and it involved circular reasoning like this. Kind of annoying, but it makes a point. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/32 "2010-05-07T14:08:20Z")
> [@Weedy](#): > > “There’s always a break in the traffic.” Meant literally, like when you are waiting to turn at a busy intersection. I feel it probably has some deep meaning as well, but I don’t know what that might be. I also feel like this should have a deeper meaning, but I’m not sure what it is. My contribution: “You shouldn’t talk if you don’t know how to listen.” I said this to my officemate, and he liked it so much he wrote it up on his markerboard and then asked who he should attribute the quote to. I answered proudly, “Me!” ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/33 "2010-05-07T14:11:33Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Beer before liquor, never sicker. > Just drink whiskey, it’s all good. How did I manage to mistype my own quote? Beer before liquor, you’re a dumbass. Just drink whiskey, it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/34 "2010-05-07T14:23:47Z")
Paraphrased from Frank Zappa: Art is creating something from nothing, and then selling it. From myself: Never ask someone else a question without first asking it of yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/35 "2010-05-07T14:47:37Z")
My senior yearbook quote was something I made up: “No matter who you are or what you do, as long as I live there’s someone better than you.” It went over much better than I expected. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/36 "2010-05-07T15:23:56Z")
I’ve never seen it written as a seperate quote by anyone but me but: The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it. ``` George Orwell on spring and...toads. ``` I find it heartening. Only Eric Blair can start off with atom bombs and be heartening. I don’t know who this is by: Malt does more than Milton can to justify god’s way to man. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/37 "2010-05-07T16:28:16Z")
There wouldn’t be so much news if people would just stay home and quit _doing_ stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/38 "2010-05-07T17:46:32Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > A friend of ours screwed up this saying when he was drunk but we liked his version much better so we use it all the time: “How’d you like a knucklefish sandwich?” I may have to start using this. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/39 "2010-05-07T17:59:37Z")
I like mine, but I don’t think it’s terribly deep - “Everything’s getting so meta we’re all going to disappear up our own assholes.” It’s just something I said to Jim while we were watching tv or something, and I liked it enough to make it my sig for now. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/40 "2010-05-07T18:18:39Z")
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