# Update some famous quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-some-famous-quotes/619676>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 23, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-some-famous-quotes/619676 "2012-04-23T10:27:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-some-famous-quotes/619676/1 "2012-04-23T10:27:23Z")

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No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; Although some men Really Should Be.

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, even as I ate cheese and pasta!

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**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:** [April 23, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-some-famous-quotes/619676/2 "2012-04-23T16:57:46Z")

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My favorite is from Pat Paulsen. During his mock Presidential bid in the 70’s, he updated Thomas Marshall’s (early 1900’s) “What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar” thusly:

“What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.”  
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-some-famous-quotes/619676/3 "2012-04-23T17:04:09Z")

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“Four score and seven years ago…”

“A lil while back…”

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**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-some-famous-quotes/619676/4 "2012-04-23T17:08:07Z")

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Don’t put Wite-Out on your teeth. Its not big, and its not clever!

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.  
Julian Huxley