 “My mama always said, life was like a box a chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” |
 “Life is not like a box of chocolates. A box of chocolates is all good. I mean, it would be like a box of chocolates if there was a occasional turd.” |
 “Forrest Gump’s mother had a lot of catchy sayings. I never really understood any of them. Life is not like a box of chocolates. Life is more like a wad of gum stuck to the bottom of your favorite pair of shoes. The more you try to clean up the mess, the stickier it becomes.” |
 “Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you’re stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there’s nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there’s a peanut butter cup, or an English Toffee. But they’re gone too fast. The taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you’re desperate enough to eat those, all you’ve got left is a — is an empty box, filled with useless brown paper wrappers.” |
 “Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” |
 “Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will.” |
by Winston Groom that the film is based on. They are a more politically correct version of the opening lines of the novel, which are: “Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they says folks sposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you — it ain’t always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interestin life, so to speak.”
(1953) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Comments? Questions? Corrections? Post them on my quotations Facebook group.
More movie quotes…
