I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

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It takes a woman nine months to make a baby, nine women cannot make a baby in a month.

Classic (and likely mangled by myself) computer science quote which I always enjoy encountering in the wild!

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From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me

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“Friends and Family fuck you first”. Sounds like a pretty shitty quote, but it proves to be true as you get older.

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Two from my mom… 1 - I cut, you choose.

2 - If a boy will cheat with you, he will cheat on you.

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„Old habits die hard“

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“Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong.”

  • Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away
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