# Good yearbook "ad" quote **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845 "2004-10-06T14:17:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/1 "2004-10-06T14:17:24Z")
Ok, so my senior (female) in high school is graduating and we are buying the requisite ad in the yearbook, you know, with her picture and some particularly clever and pithy quote. Does anyone have any website advice on where I might find one (quote, not picture, that I have)? Does anyone have a quote of their own, or that they have seen that they think is particularly good? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/2 "2004-10-06T14:30:43Z")
I dreamt I was back in uniform And a candidate for examination History - someone had blunder’d - And a voice rapped, ‘Knuckle under’ Living a law just short of delusion When we fall in love, there’s confusion This must be the place I waited years to leave - Pet Shop Boys, “This must be the place I waited years to leave” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/3 "2004-10-06T18:28:09Z")
How about the Wizard of Oz > [@The Wizard of Oz](#): > > Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got: a diploma. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/4 "2004-10-06T19:16:09Z")
You could use the one that was rejected when my friends and I graduated. It’s from The Clash’s “Magnificent Seven,” from _Sandinista_ : “Vacuum cleaner sucks up budgie. Oh oh, bye bye!” They said it was too suggestive for a 1981 yearbook. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/5 "2004-10-06T19:41:20Z")
“Congratulations, Sweetie! We’ll get those genital warts removed as your graduation present!” ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/6 "2004-10-06T22:03:34Z")
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/7 "2004-10-06T22:44:29Z")
We just dug up some random latin words, made up some more Latin-sounding words, and threw them together in a way that seemed to make sense. That way, whenever anyone asked what it said, we could say whatever we wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Elvez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@Elvez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvez)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/8 "2004-10-06T23:11:39Z")
Floyd is a good source for nihilist wisdom: “The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/9 "2004-10-06T23:25:12Z")
Things are going great, and they’re only getting better I’m doing all right, getting good grades The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades. Timbuk3 “The Future’s So Bright, I Gott Wear Shades” ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/10 "2004-10-09T07:50:27Z")
Nothing lasts, Life goes on, Full of surprises. You’ll be faced with problems of all shapes and sizes. You’re going to have to make A few compromises, For now. But only for now. - **Avenue Q** Can you tell us more about her, like what she’s done in high school (sports, music, drama…)? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/11 "2004-10-09T08:03:33Z")
> [@The Beatles](#): > > One sweet dream, pack up the bags, get in the limousine. Soon we’ll be away from here, step on the gas, wipe that tear away. One sweet dream came true today. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven: all good children go to heaven. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-yearbook-ad-quote/267845/12 "2004-10-09T19:23:10Z")
I second the Wizard of Oz quote. It’s perfect.