Mash Quotes

“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”
― Alan Alda

“The world would be a far better place if more people listened to the wisdom of Hawkeye Pierce.”
― Michel Templet

“Samurai are born to die.

Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden

“I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight. For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise.

He did the mash.
He did the monster mash.”
― Bobby Pickett

“You know, sometimes I think there should be a rule of war saying you have to see someone up close and get to know him before it's OK to shoot him.”
― Dennis Koenig

“This is the army! Nobody can do the best they can.”
― Henry Blake

“It's nice to be nice to the nice.”
― Frank Burns, MASH

“Once they had the barrel on flat, dry ground, Hiram pried open the lid. The pungent air set free from the mess of fermenting corn smelled exactly like pineapples.
Shine couldn’t fill her lungs up fast enough. She had only ever savored one of the strange, spiky-headed fruits—- for Christmas one year, a rare treat in these parts—- but she had declared it “divine.” That sweetness in the escaping air was a good sign.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Moonshine Women