The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Here was mine:
Veni, vidi, dormi
“Arriba, arriba”
Senor Speedy Gonzales.
Oh…
Being a dropout, I didn’t get one, but every year at least three or four people quoted Billy Joel:
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, because only the good die young.”
But then again, I went to Catholic school.
My friend has this on his Facebook in memorium of a friend. Don’t know it’s originator.
“Time is never wasted if you are wasting it with your friends.”
You could use the one banned for my yearbook. My friend, a big Buckaroo Banzai fan went with:
“Don’t pull on that. You don’t know what it’s attached to.”
The school administration refused it on the ground that it was obscene. It was nice to know my principal had a dirtier mind than a 17 year old boy.
(Ok, I know that’s no help but it’s my yearbook anacdote. {I went with an Iggy Pop quote myself}.)
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
I stand by my favorite: What a short and completely normal trip it’s been.
I’ve just submitted “A clever saying proves nothing” - a nice antidote to the swarms of smarmy ones out there.
This gets my vote.
Cynical. Funny. Hip. Brief. Current.
I put in that bit from Tolkien. . .
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I would like. . .” yadda yadda yadda or however it goes. That was 15 years ago.
I talked the staff into using this for the end of a college literary anthology, it’s from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
One learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do these things.
The old song: Life is just a bowl of cherries.
The chemist sings: Life is just a joule of barium.
The bullfighter sings: Life is a bull, and I will kill him.
The philosopher sings: Life is just.
The Taoist sings: Life is.
The photojournal sings: Life.
" ‘Shame?’ What is this thing you call ‘shame?’ "
Of course, unless you’re one of those people who makes administration need to revise rules about when pants must be worn, it might not be as approriate for you as it was for me.
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And potentially profitable. Since they seem to have money to throw around, you should see if they’d actually buy your quote space. It won’t wipe off as easily as it would on the back of a third rate boxer. Worst they can say is no.
Granted, I quoted an REM song, but I still like it.
“Live your life filled with joy and thunder.”
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
I can’t believe I actually remember mine:
When I entered this building this fall, I swore I won’t not succumb to Senioritis. And I can now say I have completely avoided…(yawn)…Senioritis
yikes - damn gerbils
that’s would not, not won’t not