Search results for Proverb, Adaptation

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Popular Culture, with various adaptations in literary works

Do or do not. There is no try.

Yoda

You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Obi-Wan Kenobi (as portrayed by Sir Alec Guinness)

Use the Force, Luke.

Obi-Wan Kenobi (portrayed by Alec Guinness)

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Mario Puzo

Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family.

Mario Puzo

You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder, for money.

Mario Puzo

What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman?

Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola (in terms of popular culture through the film adaptation)

Fredo, you’re my older brother and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again.

Mario Puzo