# A Yearbook Quote, Quickly! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780 "2000-02-13T19:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Mrunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrunner)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/21 "2000-02-14T14:01:00Z")
Gah!!! It’s a snow day (more of a sleet day, actually, but I digress), so I have a wee bit more time. Don’t stop th’ quoting. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/22 "2000-02-14T14:28:00Z")
Mine was “Sometimes you have to laugh at yourself, cause you’d cry your eyes out if you didn’t. -Emily Saliers” Good ang filled quote. It was actually a toss-up between that and “Everybody’s got something to hide, 'cept me and my monkey. -Lennon.” Here are some other winners: “Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.” - Jean de la Bruyere The World is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind some people dying all the time or maybe just starving some of the time which isn’t half bad if it isn’t you. -Lawrence Farlinghetti “When you finally do back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed, but your childhood.” Sam Ewing “There’s a divinity to our ends, rough hew them as we will.” Billy Boy Shakespeare, Hamlet. “Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.” Diana Black “The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: ‘Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.’” Nathan Brandon That’s all I have for now, let us know what you pick, and good luck! * * * Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/23 "2000-02-14T15:07:00Z")
Our school didn’t do year book quotes ☹ but, here is a random sampling 🙂 (Many of them stolen from the quotes the Dopers here use.) I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. The only thing necessary for the triump of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmud Burke 1795 We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. - Bern Williams One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others. It must be that since light travels faster than sound, that some people appear bright until they speak. Those that live by the sword get shot by those that don’t. Madness takes its toll on us all. Please have exact change ready. It is easier to love humanity as a whole than love one’s neighbor. - Eric Hoffer The Cat Does Not Negotiate With the Mouse. When you are all alone with no one else around you, do you still exist? The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. \*My personal favorite and perfect for my year book if we that kind of thing. \* I have never let schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/24 "2000-02-14T15:42:00Z")
“I don’t want the world, I just want your half.” -They Might Be Giants ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/25 "2000-02-15T06:25:00Z")
“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” -Beatles “The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say.” -Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/26 "2000-02-14T20:25:00Z")
Since Satan hasn’t posted to this thread yet, I’ll do it for him. How about… Yer Pal, Mrunner I like it. Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/27 "2000-02-14T21:58:00Z")
A ram is a sheep, and an ass is a donkey, but a ram on the ass is a goose. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Mrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Mrunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrunner)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780/28 "2000-02-15T03:40:00Z")
Oh, oh, I don’t know which to choose! I like a bunch… “I have never let schooling interfere with my education.” “I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.” "Everybody’s got something to hide, 'cept me and my monkey. " ‘I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.’ “May your life be like a roll of toilet paper-- long and useful.” Which to choose, which to choose? Oh well, I guess I’ll just hope for another snow day tomorrow… Yer Pal, Mrunner [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-yearbook-quote-quickly/13780.md?page=1)