Immortal words and Familiar Phrases



Immortal words and Familiar Phrases

You have heard these ideas and phrases before. Do you know where they came from or the associations they make?

“I am not a Crook.” Richard Nixon

• “I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.”

• “A rose is a rose is a rose.”

• “Go ahead, make my day.”

• Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.

• “Stifle yourself Edith”.

• “I think, therefore I am.”

• “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”

• “Ich bin ein Berliner

• “A Chicken in every pot.”

• Mr. Watson, come here I want you.”

• “All the world’s a stage …”

• “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

• “Power Corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

• “An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

• “Yaba-daba-doo.”

• “Give me liberty or give me death.”

• “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

• “This is another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.”

• “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, its’

• The fog creeps in on little cat feet.”

• “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

• “Let them eat cake.”

• “There are no second acts in American Life.”

• A Penny saved is a penny earned.”

• “Mission Accomplished.”

• “Anyone who hates children and dogs can’t be all bad.”

• “To boldly go where no man has gone before”

• “This doesn’t look like Kansas”

• “December 7, 1941, a day which will live in infamy.”

• “Frankly, my dear I don’t give a damn.”

• “Won’t you be my neighbor?”

• “I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers.”

• “War is hell.”

• “It is lucky that war is so terrible, else we should grow to love it too much.”

• “Rosebud.”

• “I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”

• “I could have been a contender.”

• “We made him a offer he couldn’t refuse.”

• “And that’s the way it is.”

• “And I hope you have had a good day.”

• “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

• “Dr. Livingstone I presume.”

• If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.”—G. Ford

• “Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. J. Carter

• “God bless us everyone.”

• “It’s not easy being green.”

• “Twas brillig an the slithy toves did gyre and gamble in the wabe …”

• “I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

• “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

• “and so it goes.”

• “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?”

• “Call me Ishmael.”

• “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

• “Fourscore and seven years ago.”

• "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"

• “Say good night , Gracie.”

• “Catch-22.”

• “Girls just wanna have fun.”

• “That one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

• “Go west young man.”

• “… and miles to go before I sleep.”

• “Heeeeeere’s Johnny.”

• “All for one and one for all.”

• “I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”

• “Born in the U.S.A.”

• “Quoth the Raven, nevermore.”

• “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

• “That’s all folks.”

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