Don’t know about the quote, but when it comes time to sign the yearbooks, a rubber stamp (with your signature) that says “It has been really great knowing you, have a fun summer and a wonderful life!” will save you a lot of writing…
“I want to share something with you – the three little sentences that will get you through life. Number one, “Cover for me.” Number two, “Oh, good idea, boss.” Number three, “It was like that when I got here.”
-Homer Simpson
That was my senior quote. It seems to fit what a senior quote should be for some reason. Plus, you get the Simpsons in your yearbook. Woo-Hoo!
Or maybe “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
– Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1758
Or maybe, “Solipsism is its own reward.” Crow, MST3k.
Or maybe my personal favorite, “Furthermore, that common advantage which results from a self-governing state is not recognized by anybody so long as it is possessed - the possibility of enjoying what one has, freely and without incurring suspicion for instance, the assurance that one’s wife and children will be respected, the absence of fear for oneself - for no one admits that he incurs an obligation to another merely because that other has done him no wrong.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Discourses, book 1 discourse 16 (italics mine)
You know, this suddenly reminds me that I was probably asked what my senior quote at some point.
Anyway, for a yearbook quote nothing can beat absurdity. Whatever you say, it MUST MEAN NOTHING AT THE TIME. Hopefully sometime people will look back on it and say, “I didn’t know what he meant at the time, but now it really makes sense.”