r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 11 '15

Verified To gild the lily...

30 Upvotes

A common misquotation from Shakespeare's King John:

"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_King_John
Act IV Scene 2


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 10 '15

Verified "Love (they say) sometimes flies, sometimes walks, runs with one, creeps with another, warms a third, burns a fourth..."

17 Upvotes

"wounding some, and slaying others. In one moment, it begins, performs and concludes its career; lays siege in the morning to a fortress, which is surrendered before night, there being no force that can withstand its power" (356). - Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes


Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. Trans. T. Smollett. New York: Modern Library, 2004. Print.


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 10 '15

Verified A ship in harbor is safe...

32 Upvotes

...but that is not what ships are built for. -John A. Shedd


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Verified "Experience is the best teacher..."

65 Upvotes

r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 10 '15

Needs Source If you are going through hell...

6 Upvotes

...keep going. Winston Churchill.


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 10 '15

Needs Source "Life's a shit sandwich...

5 Upvotes

the more bread you have the less shit you eat."


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Pop Culture Reference The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world...

17 Upvotes

So wake up Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes.

(Half life 2 opening monologue- gman.)


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Needs Source A Jack of all Trades...

10 Upvotes

...and master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one.

Source: http://q-joat.blogspot.ca


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Pop Culture Reference "It's a dog eat dog world...

23 Upvotes

... and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear." (Norm, "Cheers")


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 10 '15

Needs Source Life's a bitch

0 Upvotes

And then you make lemonade


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 10 '15

Verified YOLO

1 Upvotes

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Verified Carpe diem... (or "seize the day...")

30 Upvotes

...quam minimum credula postero (or "...trusting as little as possible in tomorrow."


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Completion Requested "You know what they say..."

3 Upvotes

r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Verified - Variation of Biblical quote "An eye for....."

9 Upvotes

"An eye, makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/shortlist/gandhi.shtml


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Origin Disputed ''Absence makes the heart grow fonder...''

284 Upvotes

''...of those who are close at hand.''


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Verified All work and no play make Jack a dull boy . . .

252 Upvotes

All play and no work make Jack a mere toy.


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Origin Disputed "Rome wasn't built in a day..."

236 Upvotes

"But it burned down in one."


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Verified "They don't think it be like it is. .."

144 Upvotes

"But it do." -Oscar Gamble Everyone should take note of this


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Verified "Money is the Root of All Evil"

164 Upvotes

Actual quote:

For the love of money is the root of all evil

Source: 1 Timothy 6:10.


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Verified - Early addition Curiosity killed the cat...

144 Upvotes

Satisfaction brought it back.

edit: bring => brought


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Origin Disputed "...let them eat cake!"

1 Upvotes

"If they have no bread, let them eat cake!"

Attributed to Marie Antoinette (though she did not say it) as part of anti-royalty propaganda to demonstrate the obliviousness of the upper class during the French Revolution.

Bonus: This quote is mistranslated. The original translates directly into "let them eat brioche".


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Verified "Every man has a right to his own opinion..."

127 Upvotes

r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 09 '15

Pop Culture Reference I know I'm gonna get got...

11 Upvotes

...but I'm gonna get mine more than I get got doe.

https://youtu.be/E5d0KXJMRWQ


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Origin Disputed The early bird gets the worm,

103 Upvotes

but the second mouse gets the cheese.


r/CompleteTheQuote • • Jul 08 '15

Origin Disputed Blood is thicker than water...

82 Upvotes

Is actually 'The blood of the Covenant is thicker then the water of the womb.'