# Pseudo-Feud **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 26, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640 "2009-09-26T12:27:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/1 "2009-09-26T12:27:42Z")
No rules, and I’m not scoring it, but I will collate (but not form the duplicates.) I just thought it would be fun thing to read! (I’m also gonna cross-post this at the Raff Boards, FYI.) Name a famous (or your favorite) quote from: 1. A book 2. A comedy movie 3. A dramatic movie 4. A celebrity (actor) 5. Politician 6. Sports figure (athlete or coach or whatever) 7. A proverb 8. Musician (or lyric) 9. A poet or poem 10. Your favorite of all time! (It can be one posted in your list already.) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/2 "2009-09-26T18:59:33Z")
1. " ‘That is well said,’ replied Candide, ‘but we must cultivate our garden.’ ” 2. “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” 3. “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” 4. “Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” 5. “Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.” 6. “Nobody goes there anymore…it’s too crowded.” 7. “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” 8. “Still a man hears what he wants to hear / And disregards the rest.” 9. “I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” 10. “No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” 11. Voltaire, _Candide_ 12. Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding, _Animal Crackers_ 13. Joe Mantell as Walsh, _Chinatown_ 14. Cary Grant 15. John F. Kennedy 16. Attributed to Yogi Berra 17. Parodied as “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.” 18. Simon and Garfunkel, _The Boxer_ 19. Robert Frost, _The Road Not Taken_ 20. H.L. Mencken (often paraphrased as “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people” or “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”) ---
**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/3 "2009-09-26T22:19:26Z")
1. So long, and thanks for the fish! 2. “I’m not dead!” 3. “Go ahead, make my day.” 4. “Na noo na noo.” 5. “I am not a crook.” 6. “People die every day.” (OJ Simpson) 7. It takes two to tango 8. “All you need is love.” 9. Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” 10. “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries.” ---
**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/4 "2009-09-26T22:27:01Z")
> [@cucuy](#): > > 1. So long, and thanks for the fish! > 2. “I’m not dead!” > 3. “Go ahead, make my day.” > 4. “Na noo na noo.” > 5. “I am not a crook.” > 6. “People die every day.” (OJ Simpson) > 7. It takes two to tango > 8. “All you need is love.” > 9. Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” > 10. “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries.” 1. _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ 2. Month Python’s _Search For the Holy Grail_ 3. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry 4. Mork from Ork (Robin Williams) 5. Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon 6. From an interview he gave while on his “If I Did It” book tour. 7. More of a saying than a true proverb 🙂 8. The Beatles, _All You Need Is Love_ 9. _The Raven_, by Edgar Allan Poe 10. Again, Monty Python I felt these answers were very obvious but if someone wanted the sources. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/5 "2009-09-27T00:22:12Z")
1. “For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.” 2. “One gay beer for my gay friend, one normal beer for me because I am normal.” 3. “I pardon you.” 4. “Beyonce made one of the best videos ever!” 5. “Ah, but in the morning, I will be sober. You however, will still be ugly.” 6. “What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.” 7. “Better to lose a minute in your life than your life in a minute.” 8. “Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I’m bored and old.” 9. For the moon never beams without bringing me beams of the beautiful Annabel Lee. And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee. 10. I’m not even supposed to be here today! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/6 "2009-09-28T12:53:23Z")
Maybe this should be moved to cafe society… ☹ I thought this would be popular! Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/7 "2009-09-28T13:20:57Z")
1. “It’s not just a tissue of lies; it’s an industrial broadloom carpet of lies.” _The White House Mess_ by Christopher Buckley 2. “And we’re just the ones to do it! Eggnog?” _Trading Places_ 3. “Shoot straight, you bastards, don’t make a mess of it!” _Breaker Morant_ 4. “I haven’t seen _Jaws 2_, but I’ve seen the house it built, and it’s beautiful.” Michael Caine 5. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961 6. “He must’ve made that movie before he died.” Yogi Berra, to his son, while watching a Steve McQueen movie 7. “This, too, shall pass.” 8. “In my daughter’s eyes, everyone is equal; darkness turns to light, and the world is at peace.” Martina McBride, “In My Daughter’s Eyes” 9. “Washington’s Monument, February 1885” by Walt Whitman: [Walt Whitman: Washington's Monument February, 1885](http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2190.html) 10. Too many to list, but Sullivan Ballou’s letter to his wife always gets me: [http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/ballou\_letter.html](http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/ballou_letter.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/8 "2009-09-28T16:22:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 1. “I haven’t seen _Jaws 2_, but I’ve seen the house it built, and it’s beautiful.” Michael Caine Except it is Jaws 4. ---
**Author:** ![Never\_Say\_Dice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Never\_Say\_Dice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_Say_Dice)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudo-feud/511640/9 "2009-09-28T22:35:24Z")
1. A book - “Never neglect ego. It separates us from the saints” _The Perfect Murder_ Donald E. Westlake, et al 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.