Quotes About Ron Swanson

#1. Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

Rob Sheffield

#2. I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson.

Nick Offerman

#3. There's only one thing I hate more than lying... Skim milk. which is water that's lying about being milk. Ron Swanson.

Ron Swanson

#4. Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

Nick Offerman

#5. They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.

Frederick Douglass

#6. I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.

Ron Swanson

#7. I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.

Ron Swanson

#8. Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society ... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children.

Max Meyer

#9. He thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Anne Tyler

#10. Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing

Ron Swanson

#11. History began July 4, 1776. Anything before that was a mistake.

Ron Swanson

#12. What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. I was born ready, I'm Ron F****** Swanson

Ron Swanson

#14. There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Tony Wilson

#15. He's a tourist. He takes pictures of people's lives, puts them in a scrapbook, and moves on. All he's interested in is stories. Basically Leslie, he's selfish. And you're not. That's why you don't like him.

Ron Swanson

#16. Dear Frozen Yogurt,
You are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or be nothing. Zero stars.

Ron Swanson