Great barbarian quotes

[Hypersmurf]

Farfig used that thing for the rest of the campaign as a club. By the end it was so beaten and splintered it would make you cry.

I once knew a fighter who'd at some point gone through a rift into a Gamma World campaign and come back.

He carried a Mark VII Laser Blaster Rifle around on his shoulder everywhere he went.

"It's a Staff of Lightning," he told us. "I saw a wizard use it once. Never figured out how to make it work, but one day I bet I can get some wizard to fix it..."

His companion had one bionic eye and one bionic leg - he could see for miles, and run really fast in circles...

-Hyp.

 

[Replicant]

"Praise not the day until evening has come; a woman until she is burnt; a sword until it is tried; a maiden until she is married; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk."

"The deeds of dead men are sung, and also the deeds of heroes who live, but never are sung the deeds of ordinary men."

And to a man who is afraid:

"That is because you think upon what is to come, and imagine fearsome things that would stop the blood of any man. Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by knowing that no man lives forever."

All three quotes are from Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, a great and underappreciated book upon which the movie "The 13th Warrior" is based.

 

[Replicant]

"Though life is lost, one thing will outlive us: memory sinks not beneath the mould.
Till the Weird of the World stands, unforgotten, high under heaven, the hero's name."

"Our lord has a need ... for a hewing with blades
to throw back the threat at his throat and at ours.
Frightened men are not fit to follow him;
rather we rally none but the dauntless
who ask no quarter from ax or arrow
and eye unblinking the ice-cold edges."

Poul Anderson, "Hrolf Kraki's Saga"

 

[Krusk]

Personal favorite quote is haiku composed by James Bond in manner of Japanese poet Bassho...

"You only live twice:
Once when you're born, once when you
Look Death in the face."

From novel, You Only Live Twice, written by Ian Fleming.

Or alternatively,

"GRRRAAAUGH!"

 

[starwolf]

"Praise not the day until evening has come; a woman until she is burnt; a sword until it is tried; a maiden until she is married; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk."

"The deeds of dead men are sung, and also the deeds of heroes who live, but never are sung the deeds of ordinary men."

And to a man who is afraid:

"That is because you think upon what is to come, and imagine fearsome things that would stop the blood of any man. Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by knowing that no man lives forever."

All three quotes are from Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, a great and underappreciated book upon which the movie "The 13th Warrior" is based.

Actually the first two are real world Viking quotes. Crichton just reused them.

 

[DungeonKeeperUK]

Not a barbarian quote but one directed at the barbarina, after getting board of the "conversation" the others were haveing Muk the dwarf barbarian went off to throw stones down a hole in teh desert floor form where Shadows had just attacked the party, quickly repremanded by the thief in the party with...
... all together now...

"Fool of a Muk...."

 

[Emirikol]

LOTHAR, of the Hill People!




Remember that skit on Saturday Night Live?


Now there were some great quotes.

EM

 

[Replicant]

Actually the first two are real world Viking quotes. Crichton just reused them.

Good point, and one I'm well aware of. Crichton was simply my source material. Have you read Eaters, by the way?

 

[Vargo]

"Gorge, guzzle, and wench, for tomorrow we get gutted!"

Then a wench's husband caught up with him while he was gorged and guzzled, and he got gutted.

Don't remember where I read it, but it's a good one...

 

[Larry Fitz]

In a campaign I ran, where all of the characters were from a barbarian tribe, a wizard had very nearly handed the party a TPK, then left. One of the barbarians gets a very serious look on his face and says, "Here's the plan: First I get better, then we go kill that guy!" The other barbarians nodded in agreement.