# The coolest quote you know. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857 "2002-04-04T20:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darkscyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Darkscyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkscyde)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/21 "2002-04-05T06:23:22Z")
I always liked… “Our love is God. Let’s go get a slushie.” Christian Slater-“Heathers” ---
**Author:** ![reoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@reoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reoch)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/22 "2002-04-05T09:12:06Z")
Mine would be this… “And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love You make” -The Beatles Reoch ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/23 "2002-04-05T10:49:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuperNova \* > \*\*“I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, “I drank what?”” > -Chris Knight (Played by Val Kilmer in the classic “Real Genius” \*\* That reminds me of this line from a Wally Pleasant song. “One night after dreaming about drinking hemlock I convinced myself that I was reincarnated from Socrates. The next morning I went to a psychic astrologer who told me that I was not reincarnated from Socrates, and that **in all my past lives I was just as confused and boring as I am in this one.** ” For short and pithy I’ve always liked “all I know is that everything you know is wrong!” ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/24 "2002-04-05T11:05:48Z")
“I hate quotes. Tell me what you know.” ``` -R.W. Emerson ``` “I’m am not tragically colored…I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow gave them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it.” ``` -Zora Neale Hurston ``` ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/25 "2002-04-05T11:30:49Z")
“its easier and usually better to to get forgiven than ask for permission” -bernie ward who used ot be a talk radio host in sf ( i think kgo was the station) ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/26 "2002-04-05T14:21:27Z")
“Familiarity breeds contempt…and children.” - Mark Twain "Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/27 "2002-04-05T14:23:59Z")
“Fishing for a good time starts with throwing in your line.” - Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/28 "2002-04-05T15:02:15Z")
The two in my sig, of course. And this one: Father William saved her from the streets She drank the lifeblood from the savior’s feet She’s Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice He takes her once a week on the alter like a sacrifice. – “Spreading the Disease”, _Operation: MindCrime_, Queensryche ---
**Author:** ![Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/29 "2002-04-05T15:13:45Z")
“Ere sin could blight, nor sorrow fade / Death came with friendly care. / The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, / And bade it blossom there.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Epitaph on an Infant. “Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, And whatever your labors and aspirations, In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” - Max Ehrmann, excerpt from Desiderata. “If I could put time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do / Is to save everyday, till Eternity passes away, just to spend them with you.” Jim Croce, excerpt from Time in a Bottle. “And wow! Hey! What’s this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like… ow… ound… round… ground! That’s it! That’s a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?” - The Sperm Whale falling to its death, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “Oh no, not again.” - The bowl of Petunias falling to its death, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In fact, I could probably quote that whole damn book. - Me ---
**Author:** ![Toaster52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Toaster52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toaster52)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/30 "2002-04-05T16:01:11Z")
I used to think of myself as being so wonderful when I came up with: _Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read._ Made it my sig for awhile. Then I ran across: _Those who do not read good books have no advantage over those who cannot read good books_…Mark Twain. _sigh_…what I get for not reading. A couple more that I like: _If a man’s got the rhythm, stand back and let him dance!!..Patrick Argabright_ _“I have done my best” That is about all the philosophy of living that one needs…Lin-Yutang_ ---
**Author:** ![Stinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Stinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/31 "2002-04-05T17:27:08Z")
Robert A. Heinlein ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/32 "2002-04-05T17:39:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H.L. Mencken and > [@](#): > > Remember, boys and girls, if you’re in a room with a loaded gun, make sure you’re the one holding it. Captain Combat, SCTV ---
**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:** [April 5, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/33 "2002-04-05T17:50:16Z")
Heh heh. You asked for it. The Loch Ness Monster’s Song Sssnnnwhuffffll? Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hlf? Gdroblboblhobnglb gbl gl g g g g glblg. Drublhaflblhaflubhafggabhafflhafl fl fl- gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm. Hovoplodok-doplodovok-plovodokot-doplodokosh? Splgraw fok fok splgraffhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok! Zgra kra gka fok! Grof grawff gahf? Gombl mbl bl- blm plm, blm plm, blm plm, blp. -Edwin Morgan (By the way, the above poem is supposed to be the Loch Ness monster surfacing to look for other dinosaurs. When it doesn’t find any, it swears, and then goes back underwater. I think it’s cool.) And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams. -Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. - T.S. Eliot, East Coker Actually, anything by T.S. Eliot or Dylan Thomas. Love them. ---
**Author:** ![KaliMavisEris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@KaliMavisEris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KaliMavisEris)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/34 "2002-04-05T17:54:35Z")
“Nothing is true, everything is permitted” Hassan-i Sabbah and also “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear and “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” Aleister Crowley ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/35 "2002-04-05T17:57:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* > \*\* > ‘Effete corps of intellectual snobs’ (usually read as ‘effete snobs’) > > - S. Agnew \*\* I thought it was “impudent snobs”, but then I’m just a nattering nabob of negativism. ---
**Author:** ![Solomon7t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Solomon7t](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solomon7t)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/36 "2002-04-05T18:54:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuperNova \* > \*\*“I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, “I drank what?”” > -Chris Knight (Played by Val Kilmer in the classic “Real Genius” \*\* OMG, I was totally gonna say that. **Real Genius** 4L ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/37 "2002-04-05T20:36:59Z")
“Nuts!” —Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, Bastogne, 1944 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/38 "2002-04-05T22:45:30Z")
My favourite is the last lines from a Matthew Arnold poem, “Self Dependence”… ‘Resolve to be thyself, and know that he Who finds himself, loses his misery’. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/39 "2002-04-05T23:04:53Z")
… in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. _Anne Frank_ When I first read that it brought tears to my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/40 "2002-04-05T23:09:39Z")
I’ll go with the classics (besides my sig) One ring to rule them all One ring to find them One ring to bring them all And in the darkness, bind them. -Tolkien [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857.md?page=3)