# I need a good quote for a ring **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117 "2003-05-14T03:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Azure\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/1 "2003-05-14T03:07:02Z")
My friends and I are planning on getting matching silver rings with our initials on the inside and a nice quote on the outside. As we will probably be attending colleges far away from one another, we’re trying to think of a sweet quote about friendship with bonus points if it has references to the distance that will soon be between us. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/2 "2003-05-14T03:23:27Z")
How about the line from E.T.? “I’ll be right here.” Maybe add an engraving of a heart. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/3 "2003-05-14T03:37:09Z")
How about “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them”? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/4 "2003-05-14T03:41:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Ash nazg durbatulúk, ash nazg gimbatul, > ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/5 "2003-05-14T03:56:35Z")
[Try this page](http://www.heartquotes.net/Friendship.html) Lotsa quotes. Though, being a dork, I’d have to go with everybody else. ---
**Author:** ![kiddokat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@kiddokat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiddokat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/6 "2003-05-14T04:05:33Z")
“Friends forever, and if we should part, it will be in distance, but never in heart.” “True friends grow seperately without growing apart.” ---
**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:** [May 14, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/7 "2003-05-14T04:41:18Z")
I harbour a secret wish to have the following quotation inscribed in my wedding ring: _Ami + amo = amiamo._ It’s an Italian pun, meaning “You love + I love = we love.” ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/8 "2003-05-14T04:48:12Z")
“Friendships come and go, but a good ring lasts forever.” -FabioClone “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” -Woodrow Wilson “Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” -Aristotle “The last thing you see before you die.” -That horror movie ---
**Author:** ![100watts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b487fb/32.png) [@100watts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/100watts)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/9 "2003-05-14T05:04:06Z")
It might be thought sappy, or childish, but I’ve always liked this bit from Winnie the Pooh: > [@](#): > > Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. > “Pooh!” he whispered > “Yes, Piglet?” > “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.” That last bit, “I just wanted to be sure of you” is what I’d suggest for a ring inscription. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/10 "2003-05-14T05:40:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*How about “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, > One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them”? \*\* But there’s gonna be, you know, two rings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/11 "2003-05-14T06:06:24Z")
Shakespeare, sonnet 109 (I think; this is from drunken memory): _O, never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify._ ---
**Author:** ![Azure\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/12 "2003-05-14T23:31:09Z")
Thanks for the great ideas! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-quote-for-a-ring/175117/13 "2003-05-15T01:07:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > **How about “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, > One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them”?** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\*Ash nazg durbatulúk, ash nazg gimbatul, > ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. \*\* I only looked into this thread to see how many posts it took before someone posted one or both of these. 😃