Quotes from Winston Groom

One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

To save energy, do not go out lookin' for trouble; chances are, it will find you soon enough.

You might not be the smartest feller in town, but you've got more sense than most people.

The one thing I remember from Fort Benning is that they didn't seem to be nobody much smarter than I was, which was certainly a relief.

Bullets an stuff be flying all over. It is something I simply cannot understand - why in hell is we doing all this, anyway? Playing football is one thing. But this, I do not know why. Goddamn.

cowardly decadent idealistic democracies, forever arguing among themselves and letting their people vote on everything!

Bubba then grabbed a hold of my leg and his eyes got all cloudy and that terrible pink sky seem to drain all the colour in his face. He was trying to say something, and so I bent over real close to hear what it was. But I never could make it out. So I asked the medic, ' You hear what he say?' And the medic say, 'Home. He said, home.' Bubba, he died, and that's all I got to say about that.

There was some people hurt far worst than I was in that hospital, let me tell you. Poor old boys with arms and legs and hands and who knows what else missing. Boys what had been shot in their stomach and chests and faces. At night the place sound like a torture chamber - them fellers be howling and crying and calling for their mamas.

Be very suspicious if somebody says they want to make a movie of your life story.

Your chances of winnin' the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket.

Dream, but don't quit your day job.

At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everybody cussing and sweating and scared, woods set on fire, damn near put the rain out!

Maybe I am a idiot, but at least I ain't stupid

After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of figured that if we was willing to do that to ourselves, then what the hell would we of done to them? They taking the wounded out of there, when along come Sergeant Kranz, hair all singed off, clothes burnt up, looking like he just got shot out of a cannon.

life is like a box of chocolates. You never know which kind you're gonna get.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know which kind yo're gonna get

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get next.

I got to pee.

Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!

The Cracked Eggs, he says, have broken up.

When you feel there is an unfair burden on your shoulders, that's just the way it is sometimes.

I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but somethin down in me sinkin fast. I am jus a po ole idiot, an now I have got the whole human race to look after.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby.

I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain't sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.