Posted: 2/7/2003 9:30:23 PM EDT
| I've got my senior quote due this Wednesday (12th). 75 words, no foreign language (MOLON LABE!!), no profanity, no "questionable comments" and no abbreviations. anyway, what do you guys think i should include? |
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Had a similar kind of problem. I basically wanted my senior quote to be a big FU to the entire student body (had a rather bad overall HS experience), but they kept telling me I couldn't use 'that kind of language'. I'm sure there are TONS of quotes, from the Founding Fathers, or famous persons throughout history, that could fit the theme you wish to present. I ended up using a bastardized quote from Aristotle. 'Though I value both friendship and truth, piety demands I honor truth above friendship'. |
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"What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women." "These people I am forced to associate with all day, every day, make me think that somewhere, several villages are missing their idiots." "Until I came here and met the people who can be found here, I didn't know that some manic-depressives also had an imbecile stage." "An idiot in search of a village. That's what comes to mind when I encounter many of you." CJ |
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Mine was gonna be "A faint heart never fucked a pig." - motto, USS Lapon (SSN-I can't remember) and it would've gone in the yearbook to (totally student run, we had pictures of folks drinking) but my mother informed me of what she would allow my father to do me if I used such a thing, so I went with a Marine Corps quote. |
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“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." --Winston Churchill |
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"A man's character is his fate." -Heraclitus If I could re-write my senior quote, that's what i'd do. Nothing is more important than character. Dont marry a beautiful woman, marry one with virtue and character. It is character, it is virtue. All those ancient philosophers were right. Take their word for it. That is the way to happinesss: virtue and character. |
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Sylvan - That Kipling poem "If" is great. Another favorite of mine is titled "How did you die". Can't remember the author, but a sample: "How did you tackle that trouble that came your way? With a resolute heart and cheerful Or hide you face from the light of day with a cowardly soul and fearful? Oh a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce or a trouble's what you make it It isn't the fact that your hurt that counts, but only how did you take it. 2 more verses. Not quite Kipling, but not bad either. |
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"Moving on. Lessons of life learned. Nothing lost in the process. Another beginning to embrace. Enjoy." It's goofy enough to be a high school quote, and the first letters of the first two words in each sentence, spell MOLON LABE. Except the last sentence. Hey, molon labe has an odd number of letters. Also if any one is looking for acrostics, they probably won't see it. |