The best Quotes from The Expendables

By the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you man and knife!

We are the shadows and the smoke, we rise. We are the ghosts that hide in the night.

Great, they got a small army. What have we got? [looks at Yin Yang] Four and a half men.

Sandra: "What are your names?"
Lee Christmas: "[points to himself] Buda..."
Lee Christmas: "[points to Barney] ...Pest"
Sandra: "Follow me, please."
Barney Ross: "Buda and Pest? Nice."

Being wealthy is very good. It allows people to be the real asswipes nature intended them to be.

Hale Caesar: "What happened to you?"
Barney Ross: "I got my ass kicked."

I promised myself, I'm gonna die for something that counts.

I once knew a man called Tool
To me, was the epitome of cool
He was good with a knife
Bad with a wife
But to think he could beat me
Dreaming he'd defeat me
Cool Tool
You gotta be a fool

Paine: "How many men you got?"
Barney Ross: "Just your mother!"

Yin Yang: "I need a raise."
Barney Ross: "Say what?"
Yin Yang: "I want it for my son."
Lee Christmas: "Since when did Yin Yang get a family?"
Yin Yang: "You don't ask, I don't tell."

You know, the enemy's always been terrified of noise, especially shotguns. With this big boy spitting out 250 rounds a minute, you tell me who's tolerating that. Absolutely zero.

Trench: "Have you been sick? You've lost weight."
Barney Ross: "Whatever I've lost you've found, pal."

Tool: "I got a great idea. Why don't you let me doodle, like, a Charlotte's web on your head? On the top of your head. You know, something different, something exciting. 'Cause you got one of them perfectly shaped domed, muscular heads. I could put a web on the top of the head. Maybe a pregnant Charlotte coming out of your ear, peeking around, making sure them bugs don't come inside. Her long legs dangling down your neck. Yeah. Sexy, right?"
Barney Ross: "Very sexy. He looks thrilled."

Paine: "Who sent you?"
Barney Ross: "Your hairdresser!"

Unlike people like her father, you, the Agency, you see life through a freaking keyhole because you let emotions cloud your judgment! Emotions are the cancer of the intellect!

Barney Ross: "What's wrong with this picture?"
Lee Christmas: "Everything."

You remember that time we was up in Bosnia? We took down them Serb bad boys? All our guys were gettin' chopped up all around us and there was blood everywhere. I never though I was gonna make it out of there and I know you didn't and you didn't either. Kinda feelin' like... dead too, ya know? My heads all very, very black place. Didn't believe in shit. Just goddamn Dracula black. I remember I got this bottle of this local shit they have over there. That slivovitz... I think that's what it was called. And I ain't feelin' no pain now... and I come up on this, uh... I come up on this overland bridge, and I see this... I see this... I see this woman standing there, ya know? And she's, uh... I stepped out and she saw me, and she's just lookin' right... right in my eyes. And I was lookin' right in her eyes, and I knew what she was gonna do. She looked at me, and I knew she was gonna jump. You know what I did, man? I just turned around I kept walkin'... until I heard that splash and she was gone. After... after taking all them lives, she was one that I could have saved, but I didn't, and... what I realized later on was if I'd have saved that woman, I might have saved what was left of my soul, ya know?

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

You are what you leave behind.

President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever.

Marihuana? That's not a drug, it's a plant.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

That's what divides one from a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you make it to be a champion, if you can´t go through, forget it.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

When we drink a cup of coffee or spoon heated chicken noodle soup or chili out of a Styrofoam cup, we are also taking in small doses of chemicals that leach from the container. Heat activates this transfer, as does oil, acids and alcohol.

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.

People love stories about the mafia: "The Godfather", "American Gangster".

You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things!

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

Life's just a game and lucky you, you're playing it with me.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Chefkoch: "Well, if you want him to get really fat as fast as possible, one of you will have to marry him."
Stan: "Marry him?"
Chefkoch: "It definitely worked for every woman i ever met."

Emotions are most dangerous when silenced.

I don't have friends, I have family.

"We have laws for these things."
"Until they fail. Then you have me."

You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.

Of all the threats from both your past and future. You've never faced anything like this.