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It's an African proverb that doesn't just have to mean travel. In Wikipedia, if you are removing a red link, that does not need any help (hopefully). But, if you are creating an article, then get some people on board. Pingy/ Pongy 🍉 23:13, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Based on a quote from Walt Disney. Creating your first article can seem daunting at first, but overcoming that first hurdle is the first step for many of our editors in order for them to eventually become proficient contributors. Besides, we all dream of bringing an article to good status. --( Roundish ⋆ t) 23:41, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Based on the thought that after you die you won't be able to leave behind anything in this world except for how people think of you. I think it's important to remember that our impressions on people is what will live on after us, so why not leave a good one? Our legacy is who we are after we leave this world. Natalius ( talk) 10:01, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Quote by Theodore Roosevelt. In my opinion, this is representative of the 5th pillar (Wikipedia has no firm rules) because it encourages you to believe you can do something and do it. The 5th pillar also supports that. Many editors don't think they are capable of editing wikipedia. I was the same when I started. TigerScientist Chat > contribs 20:11, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Based on the famous latin quote ( Veni, vidi, vici — I came, I saw, I conquered). The variant means "I came, I saw wikipedia. It was on the computer.", which seems a fitting modern-day variant reflecting the omnipresence of Wikipedia on the world's screens. — WT79 ( speak to me | editing patterns | what I been doing) 12:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
― Karl Marx, in the book: Eleven Theses on Feuerbach These words are also inscribed upon his grave, also just because he was a communist, it doesn't rid the quote of its universality. Excutient Talk 06:28, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
-Wilbur Wright said this, pertaining to how everyone needs to know something to succeed. WolfKanin ( talk) 18:59, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
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c 10:54, 3 July 2020 (UTC)-'Each is the maker of their encyclopedia'. Adapted from a quote of Sallust in a speech to Caesar. JonsterMonster ( talk) 05:06, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Unknown. Landryoliver ( talk) 02:36, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
-Meowth says this in Pokemon: The First Movie. Definitely words to live by. WikiSquirrel42 ( talk) 00:59, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
This came into my mind when I was researching for my homework. I modified it to make it related to Wikipedia. Democratics ( talk) 08:47, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
User:Nikolaiho20:10, 7 February 2016
Made me laugh the first time I heard this. TF { Contribs } 15:06, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Edit 1: adds links TF { Contribs } 10:36, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
By analogy with "the map is not the territory".
Almonaster ( talk) 05:32, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
BlAcKhAt9(9 ( talk) 18:25, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Since there was no reaction to: Has this motto been suggested before? this might be a better place to ask Lotje ( talk) 15:35, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
"i am manado, i was here from the beginning and now i will proclaim the end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okamialvis ( talk • contribs) 19:04, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
From Mick Goodrick's book The Advancing Guitarist, where he sets you up for some examples of "the effective use of space" in music, and presents you with a nearly blank page.
It's a useful reminder not to take yourself too seriously, and that humorous essays do have a use. Eman235/ talk 14:08, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Othello (1565), Act V, Scene II. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 15:34, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 11:27, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818), Canto IV. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:56, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), The Princess: Prologue (1847). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:34, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
The Blues Brothers (1978). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:17, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V (1597). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 10:10, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935), based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 10:07, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
John Dryden (1631–1700), Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), "Cymon and Iphigenia (From Boccace)". – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:38, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Moonstruck (1987). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:38, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), As You Like It, Act I, Scene III (1623). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 10:26, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
The Maltese Falcon (1931). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 10:26, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene I (1623). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 09:20, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Now, Voyager (1942). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 09:11, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene IV (1623). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:24, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Touch of Evil (1958). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:17, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 BC), Carmina 4/1:3. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 09:11, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Colley Cibber (1671–1757), Shakespeare's Richard III (Altered), Act V, Scene III.
The Quiet Man (1952). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:57, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 2:6. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:27, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Edit 1 with a different set of links. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:27, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Henry IV, Part 1 (1598), act 2, scene 3. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:07, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Young Frankenstein (1974). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:57, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Decimus Laberius (c. 105 – 43 BC). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:30, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Richard III, act V, scene VIII. – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 07:16, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
City Slickers (1991). – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 06:58, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Vanilla Sky (2001) DrkBlueXG ( talk) 20:49, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
"When the plumbing gets tough, the tough get plumbing!" -Salvador Drainato Long John Spaghetti, Meme Lord 02:13, 29 January 2019 (UTC) (Added by Long John Spaghetti) — Preceding
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"Live a life that you think someday you will be proud of. If you think you don't, have the courage to start all over again." -benjamin button — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.121.187.253 ( talk) 05:58, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
"The day's young but I'm not." -Hey breej Hey breej ( talk) 20:00, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
"In a week, I will be donating $1,000,000 to a recipient determined by the word count of the Wikipedia article about this event. If it's even, the money goes to pro-choice activists. If it's odd, pro-life." -[ XKCD 545] 'Ridge( Conversation| Fascination| Imagination) 22:32, 14 June 2021 (UTC)