The Quotable Quote Thread

[infierno]

Post your favorite quotes here.  Whether it be historical quotes, movie quotes, or quotes from literature, let's hear 'em!

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

-Vernon Law

If you're going through hell, keep moving!

- Winston Churchill

Nothing is quite as exhilarating as being shot at with no effect.

- Winston Churchill

... two of these coming from the titleholder of Most Quotable Person to Ever Live himself.

Now for some of my favorite literature quotes:

Your status as a doomed man lends your words a certain prestige and authority. As the time nears, I think you'll find that people will be eager to hear what you have to say. They will seek you out. [...] You can't let down the living by slipping into self-pity and despair. People will depend on you to be brave. What people look for in a dying friend is a stubborn kind of gavel-voiced nobility, a refusal to give in, with moments of indomitable humor.

- Don DeLillo, White Noise

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realize that the colour of an eye half seen, or the source of some distant sound, are closer to Giudecca in the hell of un­knowing than the existence of God, or the origins of protoplasm, or the existence of self, and even less worthy than these to occupy the wise. It’s a bit much, a lifetime, to achieve this consoling conclusion, it doesn’t leave you much time to profit by it.

- Samuel Beckett, "First Love"

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

 - Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

"Enjoy every sandwich." - Warren Zevon (1947 - 2003)

[infierno]

^ Great quote from an awesome musician!

[stryderg]

I like the one in my signature:
Diplomacy is the weapon of the civilized warrior.
- A. T. Hun (Robert Asprin)

[raider4]

“Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” (Homer J. Simpson)

[wilecoyote]

My personal favorite is:

“Friends are enemies who have not attacked you yet.”

Quoted by Skipper from the Penguins of Madagascar Cartoon series.

[atomicfloozy]

I have a new favorite quote from just a week ago:

"For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it.
If only we're brave enough to be it." - Amanda Gorman, "The Hill We Climb"

The whole poem is full of inspiring quotable lines.

[infierno]

Jan 29, 2021 20:44:01 GMT wilecoyote said:

My personal favorite is:

“Friends are enemies who have not attacked you yet.”

Quoted by Skipper from the Penguins of Madagascar Cartoon series.

This is actually fairly profound for a children's cartoon quote. 

[paulcollins]

“What is it?”
“The uh, stuff that dreams are made of.”

Maltese Falcon, and, in a round about way, The Tempest.

[infierno]

^ One of the all time greatest films!

[atomicfloozy]

It's turned cold here in Dallas & I encountered this gem:

"It's so cold I saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets."

[bigwalleye]

Personal favorite:

"What one fool can understand, another can."

[atomicfloozy]

Feb 10, 2021 23:57:32 GMT bigwalleye said:

Personal favorite:

"What one fool can understand, another can."

Ooh, the first time I saw that quote was in Professor Polya's book "How to Solve It" years ago when I was struggling with Calculus.

[bigwalleye]

It was a favorite of one of my mentors, Dick Feynman.

[atomicfloozy]

You must have been lucky to sit in one of Feynman's lectures.

My late husband knew Mr. Feynman. He was spouse number 2 & was several years older than me. When I met him, he was teaching mathematics at a community college after retiring from IBM. He used to tell me stories about Sagan, Feynman, & others. I used to think he was just full of hot air until on our honeymoon trip we stopped by Berkley & all of those old professors knew him. Lol. I still think about half of what he told me was hot air, but I don't doubt that he had at least met most of the people he told me about.