# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [December 7, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/61 "2021-12-07T20:54:05Z")
'Twas the knight before Christmas, and all through the domicile, Not a creature was stirring, not even a momicile. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/62 "2021-12-07T21:00:01Z")
veni, vidi, ¡gooooool! (I came, I saw, I scored) - Diego Armando Maradona ---
**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:** [December 7, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/63 "2021-12-07T21:18:26Z")
veni, vidi, oops - hope the ref didn’t see that, ¡gooooool! (I came, I saw, I cheated, I scored) - Diego Maradona ---
**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:** [December 7, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/64 "2021-12-07T22:12:21Z")
Even though this is from Bill Cosby, I’m going to quote it, because it still makes me laugh. "Away to the window I flew like a flash "Tore open the shutters “And threw up–” ---
**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:** [December 8, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/65 "2021-12-08T03:40:16Z")
With Christmas soon upon us, I offer this gem — “Chestnuts roasting in the microwave, Jack Frost nipping at our necks. Yuletide carols being played by a choir On their portable tape decks.” _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [December 8, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/66 "2021-12-08T15:07:48Z")
I have to add my mother’s version… "Children roasting on an open fire “Jack Frost nipping at their toes…” Mother was an odd duck. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/67 "2021-12-08T22:26:58Z")
or “Chester’s nuts” ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/68 "2021-12-16T20:21:14Z")
I’m dancing with tears in my eyes, 'cause the girl in my arms is a boy. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/69 "2022-01-04T02:38:41Z")
Me at work, when a rival department (a geeky Finance rivalry), invited us over for some coffee and delicious desserts: “With enemies like these, who needs friends?” One of my greatest, and I think I got one short “ha ha”. Wasted brilliance. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/70 "2022-01-04T20:11:31Z")
“I got things to do, places to go, and people to be!” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/71 "2022-01-12T21:40:56Z")
And then there’s the classics: To be is to do. Socrates To do is to be. Sarte Do be do be do. Sinatra F=ma Newton F - ma = 0 L’Hopital Well shut **ma** mouth. Foghorn Leghorn ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/72 "2022-01-12T23:47:33Z")
It is better to have lost your gloves than to never had gloves at all. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/73 "2022-01-15T23:46:23Z")
Please be generous, I misquoted on purpose. The original and real quotation was from ~~Messi~~ Pelé, but that would have taken the fun out of it, would it not? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/74 "2022-01-17T21:54:49Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > Does a misquote – that _was_ actually a quote – count? > > If so, I offer this one, attributed to Mae West: > > **“A hard man is good to find.”** > > _ **-“BB”-** _ what did the Romans say after the orgy? Vidi Vici Veni I saw! I conquered! I came! > [@panache45](#): > > Some are born mediocre, and others have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Shakespeare Or, as my brother says while gesturing towards his wife, Some are born O’Boogies, some have it thrust into them. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/75 "2022-01-17T22:21:34Z")
“I have a dream, that my four little children will make millions of dollars while working for their daddy in the White House, being judged by the slickness of his pitches! I have a dream today!” --Emperor Orange Julius I. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/76 "2022-02-17T02:24:12Z")
I’ll be back … right after these messages. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [March 28, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629/77 "2022-03-28T19:50:03Z")
Stand not upon the order of your going, **FUCK OFF.** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misquote-a-famous-line/954629.md?page=3)