I’m a current high school senior, and our senior quotes were due Friday. I’ve never been much for deadlines. Anyway, if you have any suggestions (i.e. whatever’s in your sig, as this place has great sigs), I’d really appreciate it, and I will let you know which I choose.
Ideal quote: Funny, but not corny, and it almost makes you think.
I’m a fan of Twain’s essays and short stories:
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
“Adam was but human- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
I forget where I found this quote. All I know is that it’s by someone/thing named Green Eyes:
“Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spikey person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.”
Hey, just use Carlin’s in your sig line. In Real Life out here that is often the case. A good plan executed now is better than the perfect plan executed too late.
Palm - I like that last one a lot.
Bill - Carlin is the man, and the only reason I’m considering not using that quote is because so many people have heard me say it already. For future reference, it’s from his “State Prison Farms” bit, and if you can, download it, or find some other way to listen to it.
Thanks, you two. Any more takers?
Mine was FNORD, nobody got it, it was great.
btw, Palmyra, if I use that last one, I’m attributing it to you.
From a Smithsonian article on research in near absolute zero physics: “…in a state so non-intuitive as to be called weird…”
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — oscar wilde.
My senior quote was “Laziness is a virtue, but being virtuous is bad,” which was pretty much the idea I live(d) by.
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After a while you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but often ture. Mr Spock.
How about The Unsilent Party? I know I’m waiting to use that one here in Nowharesville.
My senior quote was originally, “get me the Hell out of here,” but this was rejected by some yearbook bureacrat-in-training. So I changed it to “no comment.” This was also rejected because it was feared that the publisher would be too stupid to print it.
I can’t remember what my third choice was. It’s probably important never-to-be-forgotten words to live by, and that’s why I’m now such a chump.
How about “Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings. They did it by killing all those who opposed them.” – Anon.
Or, if you want something with a social message “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” – Brooke Shields
That is by the science fiction author Bruce Sterling: http://www.eff.org/pub/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/comp_game_designers.article
Here’s a Twain quote which I use occasionally as a sig: “For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”
This isn’t funny, but it’s good. It’s by J. Michael Straczynski, from his excellent sf series “Babylon 5” - “The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
We didn’t have senior quotes (too many seniors and not enough space in the book), but our class motto was “Mmmmmm…crunchy toast.” It’s best not to ask.
I’m partial to:
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again…and then quit. Don’t be a damn fool about it.” –Winston Churchill
“I think a yo-yo will be a wonderful thing to play with and a horrible thing to be.” –Steve Martin
“If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten” –George Carlin
“Thick, hearty and dense! That’s for me!” –Space Ghost
“I’m a people person, as long as they’re very attractive people.” –Craig Kilborn
“Smile! Someday the Earth will fall into the sun and we’ll all be dead!” –Katrina Ohlemacher
“A part of me will miss high school. Thing is, it’s the part of me that likes to break glass and kill small animals.” –Juniper200 (from my high school quote journal)
“I’ll miss you guys in the way I would miss my spleen. I wouldn’t really notice it was gone, but I’d probably feel some kind of void.” –Sarah Johnson
How about Karl Marx’s last words, to his housekeeper who was trying to get a prophetic final quote from his deathbed:
"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough."
My first one is going to be They Might Be Giants, My second from Army Of Darkness (Yay Bruce Campbell, I’m getting this on Dvd for my b-day!), and my last from me.
I can give you only one piece of advice - don’t be vindictive.
My senior class had senior wills and not senior quotes. We could leave things to teachers, fellow students and the rest of the faculty. Recently, I came across the old book with the senior wills in it. I smiled when I saw some of the things I left to my teachers - my music teacher, my physics teacher, my journalism teachers. It quickly turned to a frown when I saw what I left to former girlfriends and people I didn’t like.
Be positive. It will give you something to smile about in ten years.
“If at first you don’t succeed, hire somebody who will.”
My personal motto. 
My quote (I’m a senior this year also):
“Copy from one person, they call it plagiarism. Copy from many people, they call it research.”