# Misquote a famous line **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 19, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629 "2021-11-19T15:05:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/21 "2021-11-21T16:02:00Z")
To go, BOLDLY, where no one has gone before! (originally a split infinitive) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/22 "2021-11-21T16:35:02Z")
It’s a craptastic day in the Neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/23 "2021-11-21T18:15:46Z")
Scuze me, while I kiss this guy. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/24 "2021-11-21T18:20:33Z")
Carpe Tedium (seize the boredom.) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/25 "2021-11-21T18:49:44Z")
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations, she’s giving me her citations ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/26 "2021-11-21T19:17:26Z")
“When you come to the fork in the road, take it.” Yogi Berra. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/27 "2021-11-21T19:39:31Z")
I have returned…my Christmas gifts. Gen. Douglas MacArthur The only thing we have to fear is - fear, all the way down. President Roosevelt. History is Bunker Hill. Henry Ford ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/28 "2021-11-21T20:16:31Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > To go, BOLDLY, where no one has gone before! > > (originally a split infinitive) Well, with Jean-Luc Picard / Patrick Stewart, it’s “To baldly go where no one has gone before.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/29 "2021-11-21T20:50:38Z")
Over the river and through the woods to the Godfather’s house we go… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/30 "2021-11-21T21:05:36Z")
Bah! Hamburg! Christmas a hamburg, uncle? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/31 "2021-11-21T22:08:20Z")
Sign when you enter a casual dining establishment: “Please seat yourself.” My late husband would always read that as: “Please eat yourself.” ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/32 "2021-11-21T22:20:33Z")
That which does not kill us makes us stranger. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/33 "2021-11-21T22:25:09Z")
“Play it again, Sam.” “Time wounds all heels.” “If it ain’t broke, fix it 'til it is.” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/34 "2021-11-21T22:33:52Z")
Good neighbors make good fences. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/35 "2021-11-22T01:04:58Z")
When lovely woman stoops to folly, in low-cut gown – men murmur, “Golly!” _– Oliver Goldsmith_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/36 "2021-11-22T09:41:46Z")
Some are born mediocre, and others have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Shakespeare ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/37 "2021-11-22T16:57:40Z")
More than a feeling Never on Sunday is more than a feeling ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/38 "2021-11-22T17:11:43Z")
Tip o’ the mornin’ to you. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/39 "2021-11-22T19:55:05Z")
“man woman camera iguana tv shirt.” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/40 "2021-11-22T20:01:28Z")
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