Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[siraks]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Here is one of my all-time favorite movie quotes, from the 1982 Conan the Barbarian.

Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

LOVE IT . hahaha. classic.

[Anke Wehner]

I think I prefer the "Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper." version (Cohen the Barbarian in The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett)

image of Cohen

[WT Sharpe]

.....We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
..........— Elie Wiesel (1928- ), Romanian-born writer, now residing in the United States. The Nobel Address (1986) <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-acceptance.html>.

[KenIsaacson]

Here's an exchange between Winston Churchill and Lady Astor:

Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."

[astrangerhere]

But you know as as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean wither my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

- Patrick O'Brian in the first in his Aubrey/Martin series Master and Commander

[KenIsaacson]

"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain

[covingtoncat73]

"I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake."
- From Following the Equator by Mark Twain

[WT Sharpe]

.....With a slight shift in the focus of our attention, Art can be described as a psychopathic reaction of the race to the stresses of its existence.
..........— Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), British mathematician, philosopher. Adventures of Ideas (1933), Part IV, Chapter XVIII, Section IV: "Truth and Beauty" (page 272).

[maianhvk]

"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'."
— Groucho Marx

[WT Sharpe]

....."Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil. You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing."
..........— Oscar Wilde [Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde] (1854-1900), Irish writer. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter 1.

[BenG]

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."

-- W. C. Fields

[pilotbob]

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

[KenIsaacson]

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” — Sun Tzŭ

Not bad, as plans go.

[WT Sharpe]

.....Security is a kind of death.
..........— Tennessee Williams (1914-1983), American dramatist. Interview, Esquire (September 1971). Quoted in The Great Thoughts (1961) by George Seldes (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin).

[Krinks]

"If news travels at anything less than the speed of light now, it just means we weren't paying attention."
--Bruce Sterling
"Holy Fire"