Murc Game - Speak only in quotes

[Brian Ellis]

A fine romance with no kisses.
A fine romance, my friend, this is.
Dorothy Fields, A Fine Romance (1936 song); music by Jerome Kern

[az]

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

[Brian Ellis]

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

OUCH, that one is stretching it a bit!

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interrèd with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men,
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [79]

[Claymonkey]

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. - Julius Caesar

[Brian Ellis]

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill, Letter, 11 November 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides

[Gurm]

There was a young lady from Niger,
who smiled as she rode on a tiger.

They came back from the ride
with the lady inside
and the smile on the face of the tiger!

- Traditional Limerick

[Jessterw]

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger

- Survivor

[Brian Ellis]

Unser Sterben ist mehr eine Angelegenheit der Weiterlebenden als unserer selbst.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924) ch. 6, sect. 8 (translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

[Claymonkey]

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. - Lois McMaster Bujold

[SitFlyer]

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

[Brian Ellis]

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

What is the connection between that and the previous quotation?

Whereas then a rattle is a suitable occupation for infant children, education serves as a rattle for young people when older.
Aristotle, Politics bk. 8, 1340b 2931

[Claymonkey]

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

[ZokesPro]

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Daniel J. Boorstin

[Gurm]

Here's two:

We don't need no education!
We don't need no thought control!
No dark sarcasm in the classroom...
Teachers leave them kids alone!

(Waters/Gilmore, "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2")

Mother, don't wanna go to school today!
Think I'd rather go outside and play!

(Cherone/Bettencourt, "Mutha")

[Brian Ellis]

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three.
Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1958)