All I ever needed to know about life, I learned from The Princess Bride

1) Never trust poor lost circus performers.
2) If there are rocks ahead, we'll all be dead.
3) Shrieking eels always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh.
4) Inconceivable doesn't mean what you think it means.
5) Thibault cancels out Capo Ferro (unless the enemy has studied his Agrippa).
6) You use different moves when fighting half a dozen people than when you only have to worry about one.
7) Plato, Aristotle, Socrates...morons.
8) Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
9) Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
10) Anyone who says life isn't pain is selling something.
11) Mocking someone's pain can get you thrown down a ravine.
12) Never say you won't survive just because no one else ever has.
13) R.O.U.S.s DO exist.
14) If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.
15) Love cannot be tracked or broken.


16) When a job goes wrong, you go back to the beginning.
17) You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
18) Mostly dead is slightly alive.
19) True love is the greatest thing in the world (except for a nice M.L.T.)
20) Chocolate coating makes everything go down easier.
21) Real friends will help you storm a castle gate guarded by sixty men.
22) Mawidge is a dweam wiffim a dweam.
23) If you didn't say it, you didn't do it.
24) Death cannot stop true love, all it can do is delay it for a while.
25) War is a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.
26) People in masks cannot be trusted.
27) Lies do not become of men of action.
28) List everything among your assets, even if it's just a wheelbarrow carting an albino.
29) Scaling the face of a giant cliff is not as easy as it looks.
30) You should never trust the word of a spaniard.


31) If you see a boat following you in eel-infested waters, it's probably not a fisherman out for a pleasure cruise at night.
32) When jogging someone's memory, don't jog too hard.
33) Yelling a single phrase over and over makes you recover from certain death.
34) When asked a question for posterity, be completely honest.
35) There's not much money in revenge.
36) It's good to know someone on the Brute Squad.
37) After taking a miracle pill, don't go swimming for at least an hour.
38) Do good work and maybe they won't kill you in the morning.
39) When you're about to be killed by a pirate, just say the reason for you to live is true love.
40) Being nervous and concerned are NOT the same thing.
41) Always think everything could be a trap, and you'll still be alive.
42) Sword fights are always the best way to resolve an argument.


With thanks to the "Hallo. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." group on Facebook.

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