"War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself."
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"Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!"
"Some of the guys when they play, they try to keep it reality. Nah, I need the best everything."
"If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work."
"Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports."
"It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win."
"Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist."
"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."
"The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.'"
"I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it. I'm just gonna use every feature to make me outrageous - the best."
"Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with."
"Each team always has that one power player, even Carmelo. Those are the guys who would represent the logo."
"Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it."
"I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good."
"I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch."
"Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me."
"If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call."
"The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined."
"The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups."
"You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective."
"While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave."