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It’s graduation season! Which, for all you seniors out there, means it’s time to pick a yearbook quote.
Not to put any pressure on you, but this is the most important decision* you’ll make this year. This is how you’ll be remembered by your classmates, teachers, and history itself.
It’s up to you whether you choose something poignant and wise or silly and ridiculous.
*Just kidding! It isn’t.
But don’t worry! We put together this list of senior quotes with the help of Reddit, Twitter, and the entire internet to help you make this crucial choice. Even if you don’t pick a quote from this list, one might be your jumping-off point to find the perfect one. Inspiration or not, we promise these will make you laugh. Or chuckle, at least.
1. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” —Elbert Hubbard
2. “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” —Lucille Ball
3. “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?” —RuPaul
4. “Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That’s one of my mottos.” —Stanley Hudson (The Office)
5. “Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn’t it? If you’re comfortable while you’re doing it, you’re probably doing it wrong.” —Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
6. “I’m in a glass case of emotion!” —Ron Burgundy (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
7. “You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. Y’know why? It’s got a 10-second memory. Be a goldfish.” —Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
8. “I make a habit out of doing things that people say I can’t do: Walk through fire, waterski blindfolded, take up piano at a late age.” —Rick Ford (Spy)
9. “When life gives you lemons, just say ‘f*ck the lemons’ and bail.” —Chuck (Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
10. “Our goal is to go out like Willie Nelson, on a high.” —Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
11. “Well, nobody’s perfect.” —Osgood (Some Like It Hot)
12. “Snap out of it!” —Loretta Castorini (Moonstruck)
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13. “If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.” —Ace Ventura (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
14. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” —Gloria Steinem
15. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” —Charles M. Schulz
16. “I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” —Groucho Marx
17. “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” —Terry Pratchett
18. “Hakuna matata.” —The Lion King
19. “I’m not sure what the future holds, but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate.” —Bill Murray
20. “Attention campers, lunch has been canceled due to lack of hustle. Deal with it.” —Tony Perkis (Heavyweights)
21. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Peter Drucker
22. “I’ll say this to you, my friend, with all the love in my heart and all the wisdom of the universe: Take it sleazy.” —Michael (The Good Place)
23. “I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man.” —Jay-Z
24. “Long story short, I survived.” —Taylor Swift
25. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” —Vidal Sassoon
26. “Gotta blast!” —Jimmy Neutron
27. “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” —Henny Youngman
28. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon
29. “Life’s a garden, dig it!” —Joe Dirt
30. “I’ve done my waiting! 12 years of it! In Azkaban!” —Sirius Black (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
31. “Life’s too mysterious to take too serious.” —Mary Engelbreit
32. “Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and hurt you.” —Rick Astley
33. “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” —George Carlin
34. “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” —Kurt Vonnegut
35. “Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.” —Alfred Adler
36. “Were we supposed to have a quote?” —Ann Paul Veal (Arrested Development)
37. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.” —Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own)
38. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” —William Shakespeare
39. “You met me at a very strange time in my life.” —The Narrator (Fight Club)
40. “I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me.” —Dwight Schrute (The Office)
41. “Be so good that they can’t ignore you.” —Steve Martin
42. “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world and there’s still going to be someone who hates peaches.” —Dita Von Teese
43. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.” —Clint Eastwood
44. “When I’m sad, I stop being sad, and just be awesome instead. True story.” —Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
45. “It’s not your job to be likable. It’s your job to be yourself.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
46. “All my life I’ve had one dream: to achieve my many goals.” —Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
47. “Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good.” —Peter Parker (Avengers: Infinity War)
48. “Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” —Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon)
49. “May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” —Chuck Palahniuk
50. “I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?” —Chandler Bing (Friends)
51. “‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ —Wayne Gretzky” —Michael Scott (The Office)
52. “Shoot for the moon; if you miss you will die in outer space, which is cool.” —Katya Zamolodchikova
53. “If I die, turn my tweets into a book.” —Gina Linetti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
54. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” ―Tina Fey (Bossypants)
55. “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” —Anonymous
56. “I did meet some of the most insufferable people, but they also met me.” —Shane Madej
57. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere’s Fan)
58. “My stummy hurt.” —Playboi Carti
