# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/41 "2010-05-07T22:02:22Z")
We could make apathy a core value around here, if only we gave a flying [fig]. (OK, this was a collaborative effort, but I am claiming credit.) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/42 "2010-05-07T22:14:33Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > “Art makes meaning, and meaning is art. Nothing exists but art.” > > I think it makes sense, and it’s certainly pretentious enough. But, do you think it’s actually quotable? Pretentious yes, pithy no. Drop either sentence to make it “quotable,” though I disagree both ways. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/43 "2010-05-07T23:09:11Z")
Not original with me, but I like “Time wounds all heels”. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/44 "2010-05-08T00:07:38Z")
“No good deed goes unpunished.” I don’t know who first said it. I first heard it in the song “Crumbling Down” by John Mellencamp. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/45 "2010-05-08T02:44:36Z")
“Nothing bad ever happens. Until it does.” I like to say that to people who whine about doing stupid or thoughtless things and then whine about how it was never a problem before. Because they’ve done it any number of times before. And nothing bad ever happened before. ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/46 "2010-05-08T03:28:45Z")
Mine’s a variation, “I trust him as far as I can throw myself.” ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/47 "2010-05-08T03:41:34Z")
I say “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it,” although I’m sure a lot of other people have come up with the same thing. ---
**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 8, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/48 "2010-05-08T08:46:56Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > I don’t know who this is by: > Malt does more than Milton can to justify god’s way to man. That’s A.E. Housman, from the poem _Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff_ ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/49 "2010-05-08T11:13:29Z")
How about “there was no greater loss, than when Heaven ceased to exist.” ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/50 "2010-05-08T11:29:21Z")
“Winners never quit, and don’t trust whitey.” [Thank you Lois Griffin] ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/51 "2010-05-08T11:39:58Z")
The way you dance is the way you fuck, the way you feel is the way you walk. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/52 "2010-05-08T11:57:26Z")
Said to my stepmother in the midst of an argument: “You wanna know a difference between you and me? People will cry at _my_ funeral.” Not exactly a Power Of Positive Thinking moment, but it remains true to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/53 "2010-05-08T11:59:03Z")
“At times it is tempting to ignore those data that contradict our preconceived ideas.” I got this from a book, but if I could eliminate the cases of this I deal with, I think I would be a lot more satisfied. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/54 "2010-05-08T12:00:24Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Said to my stepmother in the midst of an argument: > > "You wanna know a difference between you and me? People will cry at _my_ funeral This is something I wish my dad would think about. He has almost no real friends, and makes me almost routinely think about just driving away when I stay over. He’s never wrong, and his list of possible offenses is something I’ve never run into in other situations. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/55 "2010-05-08T12:16:06Z")
I’m not worried about what you intend to do; I’m worried about what you’re actually going to do. ---
**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 8, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/56 "2010-05-08T16:28:48Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I say “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it,” although I’m sure a lot of other people have come up with the same thing. I usually say, “We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.” Just seems more energetic, you know? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/57 "2010-05-08T22:20:54Z")
My quote is quite useful if you have just hit your thumb with a hammer. It consists of just one word in different forms. Spoiler for those offended by profanity. Fuck! fucked fucking fuckers, fuckingly fuck fucked fucks. I think it is a grammatically correct sentence. My spell checker flags one word though. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/58 "2010-05-09T22:09:13Z")
“All problems can be solved by the suitable application of high explosives, however, some are more fun when solved with a chainsaw.” That’s original with me, although it started as a paraphrase from a book by Arthur C. Clarke, and evolved to the final form over time. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/59 "2010-05-10T07:00:06Z")
“It’s not who you know, it’s who you know knows.” ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490/60 "2010-05-10T13:57:11Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > How did I manage to mistype my own quote? > > Beer before liquor, you’re a dumbass. > Just drink whiskey, it’s all good. Could it possibly be the liquor? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-own-quotable-quote-also-critique-mine-and-others-please/538490.md?page=4)