History Main / LiteraryAllusionTitle

* ''[[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Uncanny X-Men]]'' #100, "Greater Love Hath No X-Man" (from John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this...")

* SpiderRobinson, ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon''

** ''EastOfEden'' (Genesis 4:16)

** ''PaleFire'', novel (''Theatre/TimonOfAthens IV''.iii); {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the text!

* ''[[{{V-2009}} V]]'' (2009 series)

* "The Dogs of War", song by PinkFloyd (''Theatre/JuliusCaesar III''.i)
** Also from that play, IronMaiden's "The Evil That Men Do".

* The ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "I Robot, You Jane." This doubles as an allusion to Tarzan.

* ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' - The Creator/MichaelMoore documentary about the presidency of GeorgeWBush, referencing Bradbury's classic ''Literature/{{Fahrenheit 451}}''. Mr. Bradbury accused Mr. Moore of "stealing" his title, though he himself has invoked the LiteraryAllusionTitle several times in his career.

* ''TheSumOfAllFears'', Creator/TomClancy novel and film (1943 speech)

* A Japanese ''{{Pokemon}}'' episode is "Do Magnemite Dream of [[{{Mascot}} Electric Mice]]" (in English, "Sparks Fly From the Magnemite")

* Novels by IainBanks:

* ''OverTheWineDarkSea'', novel by Creator/HarryTurtledove

* ''The Remorseful Day'', the title of the last InspectorMorse novel. (Last line of ''More Poems'' XVI, "How clear, how lovely bright")

* ''VideoGame/EyeOfTheBeholder'' ("Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", a phrase from the 1878 novel ''Molly Bawn'')
* {{Metallica}}'s "Eye of the Beholder".

* "Hearts and Minds", episode of ''Series/{{V}}'' (1965 speech)
** Also a ''LOST'' episode.

* "The Bug, the Witch, and the Robot", ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' arc (play on ''TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', novel)

* "The Lyin', the Watch, and the Wardrobe", ''UglyBetty'' episode
* "The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe", ''DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' short story

* ''Prospero Lost'' and ''Prospero Regained'' by L. Jagi Lamplighter, in her ''ProsperosDaughter'' trilogy. (Though the middle work is not included.)
* "Paradise Lost", subtitle of ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX Mega Man X8]]'' (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem)

* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', radio/book/TV/movie series created by DouglasAdams (play on the title of ''The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe'')

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* ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' novel by JDSalinger ("Comin' Thro the Rye", poem)

[[folder: Margaret Wolfe Hungerford]]
* ''EyeOfTheBeholder'' ("Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", a phrase from the 1878 novel ''Molly Bawn'')

* "The Dogs of War", song by Pink Floyd (''Theatre/JuliusCaesar III''.i)

[[folder:JohnLennon / PaulMcCartney]]
* "We Are The Eggmen", episode of ''Series/DueSouth'' ("I Am the Walrus", song)
* "Fry Am The Eggman", episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' ("I Am the Walrus")
* "A Little Help From My Friends", episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' ("With a Little Help from My Friends", song)
* "And in the End...", episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' ("The End", song)
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* "Ashes to Ashes", song by David Bowie (Burial Rites 1 and 2)

[[folder:David Bowie]]
* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' (title of song)
* ''AshesToAshes'', as mentioned above (title of song)
* ''Literature/DiamondDogs'' by AlastairReynolds (title of song and album)
* "Turn and Face the Strange", ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode ("Changes", song)
** And it could be argued that the series name ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' may be an example, although it may be coincidence.
* ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'' (title of an obscure-ish song)
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[[folder:Robbie Robertson (of The Band)]]
* Nazareth, band ("The Weight", song).
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Despite the name, the quote need not come from literature ''per se''. The most common non-literary sources for titles are probably songs (see also TitledAfterTheSong) and political speeches. Many of these quotes will be StockQuotes. A subtrope of ShoutOut. Also see StockEpisodeTitles.

[[folder:Elvis Costello]]
* "Absent Friends," ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', Chapter 2 ("The Comedians", song)
* ''Less Than Zero'', novel by Creator/BretEastonEllis (title of song), and its sequel ''Imperial Bedrooms'' (title of album)
* ''Blood and Chocolate'', novel by Annette Curtis Klause (title of album)
* ''What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?", ComicBook/ActionComics #775 (play on "What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?", song [though the song was written by Nick Lowe])
* ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' was the name of an alias Costello used on his ''Blood And Chocolate'' albm, though Jared Hess [[WordOfGod claims]] he got it from a man he met using the name, and was unaware of (and embarrassed by) the Costello connection.
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[[folder:Al Dubin]]
* "I Only Have Eyes for You", episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (title of song)
* "Lullabies of Broadway", ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' issue (title of song)

[[folder:Bob Dylan]]
* Chapters of ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** "At Midnight, All the Agents...," Chapter 1 ("Desolation Row", song)
** "Two Riders Were Approaching...," Chapter 10 ("All Along the Watchtower", song)
*** In [[Film/{{Watchmen}} the movie]] both of these songs ''were actually used'' during the scenes covering the events of those chapters (albeit not the original Bob Dylan versions).
* "Joker & the Thief" by Wolfmother ("All Along the Watchtower", song)
* Music/JudasPriest, band ("The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", song)
* ''Rolling Stone'' Magazine ("Like a Rolling Stone", song).
* "Masters of War" AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Unbound audio drama (title of song)
* The novel ''Literature/WhenGravityFails'' (from the song "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues") and its sequel, ''Fire in the Sun'' (from "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue")
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[[folder:Albert Einstein]]
* "Watchmaker," ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', Chapter 4 ([[http://www.todayinsci.com/QuotationsCategories/W_Cat/Watchmaker-Quotations.htm apocryphal]] remark "If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker")
* ''Circumference of Darkness'', novel by Jack Henderson (attributed remark "As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it")
* ''God's Dice'', novel by S. Andrew Swann (1924 letter to Max Born)
* "God's Dice," Music/PearlJam song
* ''Subtle is the Lord'', Einstein biography by Abraham Pais (1921 remark to Oscar Veblen at Princeton University)
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[[folder:John Fogerty]]
* "Bad Moon Rising", ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' issue (title of song)
* "BadMoonRising", ''Wiki/TVTropes''.
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[[folder:George Harrison]]
* "Taxman, Mr. Thief", Music/CheapTrick song ("Taxman", song)
* ''Here Comes the Sun'', Tom Holt novel ("Here Comes the Sun", song)
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* Steppenwolf, band (title of novel)

[[folder:Buddy Holly]]
* "Not Fade Away", episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' (title of song)
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[[folder:Herman Hupfield]]
* ''Series/AsTimeGoesBy'', TV series (title of song)
* "A Kiss Is But A Kiss", episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' ("As Time Goes By", song originally from the musical ''Everybody's Welcome'')

[[folder:Mick Jagger]]
* ''A Deeper Blue'', by Creator/JohnRingo ("Paint It, Black", song)
* ''Sympathy For the Devil'', AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Unbound audio drama (title of song)
* "Painted Black", ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' story arc ("Paint It, Black", song)

[[folder:Billy Joel]]
* "Piano Man", episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' (title of song)

[[folder:Lyndon B. Johnson]]
* "Hearts and Minds", episode of ''V'' (1965 speech)

[[folder:Erica Jong]]
* "Fear of Flying", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

[[folder:Ben Jonson]]
* ThomasLigotti short story "Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes", from the opening line of "Song: To Celia" ("Drink to me only with thine eyes...")

[[folder:James Joyce]]
* ''A Swift Pure Cry'', novel by Siobahn Dowd (''{{Ulysses}}'', novel)
* "Portrait of Artist as a Young Virus", episode of ''Series/SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'' (''Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan'', novel)

[[folder:Carl Jung]]
* The ''Persona'' spin off series from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''.
* "The Darkness of Mere Being," ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', Chapter 9 (''Memories, Dreams, Reflections'', book)

[[folder:Juvenal]]
* "Who Watches the Watchers", ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode (''Satires'', poem collection)
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', comic book by Creator/AlanMoore and Dave Gibbons (referencing the same quote as the ''Star Trek'' episode)
** And "Who Watches the Watchmen?" by (Music/CoheedAndCambria Prize Fighter Inferno)--a side project of Coheed and Cambria's frontman Claudio Sanchez--which most likely references ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''
* The same quote but in [[AltumVidetur original latin]] gives the title of two ''{{Webcomic/Roommates}}'' pages. #326 and #327 "[[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-326-Quis-Custodiet-376916306 Quis Custodiet]] [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-327-Ipsos-Custodes-376917484 Ipsos Custodes]]?". These are also {{Pun Based Title}}s as appear in the arc where several characters from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' cameod.

[[folder:Irving Kahal]]
* "I'll Be Seeing You", ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' episode (title of song)

[[folder:Gus Kahn]]
* "Dream a Little Dream", ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode
* "Dream a Little Dream of Me", ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' issue (title of song)
* "Dream a Little Dream of Me", ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode

[[folder:Nikos Kazantzakis]]
* "The Last Temptation of Homer" and "The Last Temptation of Krust", episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("The Last Temptation of Christ", novel)
** Also possibly "Lisa the Greek" ("Zorba the Greek", novel)

[[folder:John Keats]]
* ''Season of Mists'', multi-issue arc in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' by Creator/NeilGaiman, and subsequent single-volume collection ("Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness", sonnet)
* ''Literature/HyperionCantos'', by Dan Simmons (''Hyperion'' and ''The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream'', poems)
* ''Unweaving the Rainbow'', by Creator/RichardDawkins (''Lamia'', poem)
* ''Literature/TenderIsTheNight'' by Creator/FScottFitzgerald (''Ode to a Nightingale'')

[[folder:John F. Kennedy]]
* "Long Twilight Struggle", ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode (inaugural address)
* ''TabletopGame/TwilightStruggle'', board game
* ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', DC comic book by Darwyn Cooke ("New Frontier" speech, 1960)
* "New Frontier", song by [[Music/SteelyDan Donald Fagen]]

[[folder:Francis Scott Key]]
* ''Twilight's Last Gleaming'', 1971 novel and 1977 film ("The Star-Spangled Banner")
* "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
* "Proof Through The Night", episode of "Airwolf" ("The Star-Spangled Banner")
* "No Refuge Could Save", Creator/IsaacAsimov short story ("The Star-Spangled Banner")

[[folder:Stephen King]]
* ''Manhwa/{{Redrum 327}}'' ({{Manhwa}} by Ko Ya Sung) ("Literature/TheShining")

[[folder:Rudyard Kipling]]
* ''Literature/FromHereToEternity'', novel by James Jones ("Gentlemen-Rankers", poem)
* ''Film/TheThinRedLine'', novel by James Jones ("Tommy", poem)
* "Thin RED Line", Arakune's theme music in the videogame ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''
** Although, as "Tommy" lampshades, "thin red line" was an older phrase used in the newspapers etc. at least since the Crimean War.
* ''Insurance: The White Man's Burden'', a Goon Show episode. ("The White Man's Burden", poem)
* ''Film/WhiteMansBurden'', motion picture starring Creator/JohnTravolta and Harry Belefonte

[[folder:John Knox]]
* ''The Monstrous Regiment'', novel by Storm Constantine ("The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women", tract)
* ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', Discworld novel

[[folder:JohnLennon / PaulMcCartney]]
* "We Are The Eggmen", episode of ''Series/DueSouth'' ("I Am the Walrus", song)
* "Fry Am The Eggman", episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' ("I Am the Walrus")
* "A Little Help From My Friends", episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' ("With a Little Help from My Friends", song)
* "And in the End...", episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' ("The End", song)

[[folder: Phillip Larkin]]
* "ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth", comic, that line was in Philip Larkin poem: "Church Going".

[[folder:C. S. Lewis]]
* "The Bug, the Witch, and the Robot", ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' arc (play on ''TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', novel)
* "The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men Evolution}}'' episode
* "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe", ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode
* "The Lyin', the Watch, and the Wardrobe", ''UglyBetty'' episode
* "The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe", ''DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' short story
* "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' episode
* "The Great Divorce", a short story by Kelly Link (title of [[Literature/TheGreatDivorce an allegory]])
* ''Sixpence None the Richer'', American pop/rock band (title taken from ''Mere Christianity'')
* ''The Problem of Susan'', a short story by Creator/NeilGaiman ("The Problem of Pain", essay)

[[folder:Abraham Lincoln]]
* ''For Us, The Living'', novel by Robert A. Heinlein (Gettysburg Address, speech)
** The title of Ayn Rand's first novel, ''We the Living'', may also have been alluding to this
* ''The Last Full Measure'', novel by Jeff Shaara, third in the Civil War Trilogy (Gettysburg Address, speech)
* "The Stormy Present", episode of ''Series/TheWestWing'' (1862 annual speech to Congress)
* "A House Divided", episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' (1858 speech accepting senatorial nomination)
* "House Divided", episode of ''Series/{{House}}''
* "A Milhouse Divided", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

[[folder:Jack London]]
* "The Call of the Simpsons", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild'', novel)
* ''The Call of the Wild'', Music/TedNugent and the Amboy Dukes album

[[folder:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]
* ''The Children's Hour'', play by Lillian Hellman (title of poem)
* ''The Children's Hour'', novelette and later novel from the Man-Kzin Wars series, by Jerry Pournelle and SMStirling

[[folder:Courtney Love]]
* ''[[http://www.mighthavebeen.net/ My Name Is Might Have Been]]'', webcomic by Creator/CatherynneMValente, Ferrett Steinmetz, and Avery A. Liell-Kolk ("Celebrity Skin", song)

[[folder: Sidney Lumet]]
* "Dog Day Afternoon", ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' episode (title of film)

[[folder: Andy Lyons]]
* ''When Saturday Comes'', film (title of magazine)
* "When Saturday Comes", ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' episode (title of magazine)

[[folder:Marines' Hymn]]
* ''The Halls of Montezuma'', 1951 film
* ''To the Shores of Tripoli'', 1942 film

[[folder:Christopher Marlowe]]
* ''A Thousand Ships'', first trade paperback for the ''Age of Bronze'' comic book series by Eric Shanower (''Theatre/DoctorFaustus V''.i, play)
* ''Midnight Never Come'', novel by Marie Brennan (''Theatre/DoctorFaustus V''.i, play)

[[folder:Andrew Marvell]]
* ''A Fine and Private Place'', novel by Creator/PeterSBeagle ("To His Coy Mistress", poem)
* ''Fine and Private Place'', novel by Ellery Queen
* "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", short story by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin ("To His Coy Mistress", poem)
* ''World Enough and Time'', novel by Robert Penn Warren ("To His Coy Mistress", poem)
* "World Enough and Time", ''[[FanFilm Star Trek: New Voyages]]''
* ''Worlds Enough and Time'', science fiction novel by Creator/JoeHaldeman

[[folder:The Marx Brothers]]
* "There Ain't No Sanity Clause", song by The Damned (''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', film)
* ''A Night At The Opera'' and ''A Day At The Races'' were Music/{{Queen}} albums from 1975 and 1976, respectively.
* In a somewhat related note, Music/EltonJohn got the title to his 1973 ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player'' album, when his friend [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] kidded him that his stage name should be "John Elton". Elton raised his hand as if in a hold-up and jokily exclaimed what would be the title of the album. Elton put a ''GoWest'' movie poster in the album artwork as a tribute to the Marx Brothers.

[[folder:Michael Masser and Linda Creed]]
* "I Believe the Children Are Our Future", episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' ("Greatest Love of All", song)

[[folder:Somerset Maugham]]
* ''Appointment in Samarra'', novel by John O'Hara (''Sheppey'', play)
* "Appointment in Samarra", episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

[[folder:John McCrae]]
* "When Flanders Failed", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("In Flanders Fields", poem)

[[folder:Hughes Mearns]]
* ''The Man Who Wasn't There'', film ("Antigonish", poem)

[[folder:Herman Melville]]
* "To The Last Will I Grapple With Thee", episode of ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' (''Literature/MobyDick'', Captain Ahab's last words)

[[folder:John Milton]]
* ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'', Discworld novel ("L'Allegro", poem)
* ''Tripping the Light Fantastic'', album by [[http://www.theenid.com/ The Enid]]
* ''Tripping the Live Fantastic'', live double album by Music/PaulMcCartney
* ''Literature/ToReignInHell'', novel by Steven Brust (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem)
* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem) The WorkingTitle of the trilogy, ''The Golden Compasses'', as well. The American title of the first book, ''The Golden Compass'', comes from this, although the "compasses" Milton referred to were the drawing instrument, not the navigational tool which the alethiometer superficially resembles. (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem)
* ''Literature/InDubiousBattle'', novel by John Steinbeck (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem)
* "Paradise Lost", ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode
* ''Prospero Lost'' and ''Prospero Regained'' by L. Jagi Lamplighter, in her ''ProsperosDaughter'' trilogy. (Though the middle work is not included.)
* "Paradise Lost", subtitle of ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX Mega Man X8]]'' (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem)

[[folder:Edward R. Murrow]]
* ''Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck'', film (characteristic sign-off phrase)

[[folder:Thomas Nashe]]
* ''Brightness Falls From the Air'', novel by James Tiptree ("A Litany in Time of Plague", poem)

[[folder:The New England Primer]]
* "My Soul to Keep", episode of ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds''
* The novels in Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series all use either quotes from or variations on the "My Soul to Keep" verse. They are:
** ''My Soul to Take''
** ''My Soul to Save''
** ''My Soul to Keep''
** "My Soul to Lose" (the prequel novella)
** The forthcoming (as of March 2011) ''If I Die''.

[[folder:Isaac Newton]]
* ''A Star Shall Fall'', novel by Marie Brennan (unpublished alchemical notes)

[[folder:The Nicene Creed]]
* ''The Life of the World to Come'', one of Literature/TheCompanyNovels by Kage Baker

[[folder: Friedrich Nietzsche]]
* ''Man and Superman'', play by Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw (''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'', book)
* "The Abyss Gazes Also," ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', Chapter 6 (''Beyond Good and Evil'', book)
* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'', video game (title of book)
* Every single chapter of the VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} series.
** Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (recurring phrase most common in ''Beyond Good and Evil'')
** Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (title of book--in English, ''Beyond Good and Evil'')
** Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra (title of book--in English, ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'')
* ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'', orchestral work by Richard Strauss
* ''VideoGame/TooHuman'', video game (title of book--''Human, All Too Human'')

[[folder: Eugene O'Neill]]
* "Long Day's Journey", episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' (''Long Day's Journey Into Night'', play)

[[folder: George Orwell]]
* ''Series/BigBrother'', reality television show (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', novel)
* ''1Q84'', novel by HarukiMurakami; the letter Q and the Japanese number 9 are homophones (''1984'', novel)
* ''Room 101'', [=BBC=] chat show (''1984'', novel)
* "2+2=5", a Music/{{Radiohead}} song (''1984'')

[[folder: Trey Parker and Matt Stone]]
* ''What Would Brian Boitano Make'', cooking show ("What Would Brian Boitano Do?", song from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'')

[[folder: Thomas Percival]]
* ''Fables and Reflections'', single-volume collection of ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' issues (''[[LongTitle A Father's Instructions; Consisting of Moral Tales, Fables, and Reflections; Designed to Promote The Love of Virtue, a Taste for Knowledge, And an Early Acquaintance with the Works of Nature.]]'')

[[folder:Plato]]
* ''Two Worlds'', a German developed action RPG that apparently draws its name from Plato's concept of the worlds of Form and Things.

[[folder: Edgar Allan Poe]]
* Novels by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes:
** ''Demon in my View'' ("Alone", poem)
** ''Token of Darkness'' (paraphrase of "The Raven", poem)
* "The Telltale Head", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("The Telltale Heart", short story)
* "Murders in the Rue Morgue", Music/IronMaiden song (title of short story)

[[folder: Alexander Pope]]
* ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', film (''Eloisa to Abelard'', poem)
* ''The Moving Toyshop'', detective novel by Edmund Crispin (''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'', poem)
* "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

[[folder: Jean Racine]]
* "Sleep of the Just", issue of ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' (''Abrégé de l'histoire de Port Royal'', book)

[[folder: R.E.M.]]
* "Shiny Happy People", episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' (title of song)
** ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' also uses this title. Another pair of episodes is named after "It's the End of the World As We Know It" (a 2 parter: "It's The End of The World"/"... As We Know It.")
* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' also does this with "Losing My Religion"

[[folder:Cardinal Richelieu]]
* ''The Last Argument of Kings'', novel by Joe Abercrombie (English translation of Latin motto "Ultima ratio regum" inscribed on cannons)

[[folder:Robbie Robertson (of The Band)]]
* Nazareth, band ("The Weight", song).

[[folder: Gene Roddenberry]]
* "Final Frontier", theme song to ''Series/MadAboutYou'' (opening narration to ''Franchise/StarTrek'')
* "The Final Frontier", ''Series/NorthernExposure'' episode

[[folder: Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
* "Fear, Itself", episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (first inaugural address)
* "Fear Itself", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''
* "Fear Itself", episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''
* ''Series/FearItself'', a short-lived Creator/{{NBC}} anthology series
* "Fear Itself", a horror/investigation based tabletop RPG by Robin D. Laws
* ''Comicbook/FearItself'', a CrisisCrossover from Creator/MarvelComics, 2011
* ''One-Third of a Nation'', Living Newspaper play by Arthur Arent (second inaugural address)

[[folder: Donald Rumsfeld]]
* "Known Unknowns", episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' (2002 White House press briefing)
* ''Stuff Happens'', play by David Hare (2003 speech [[note]]"Stuff happens and it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." (regarding the rampant looting in Baghdad; April 11, 2003)[[/note]])

[[folder: Gilbert Ryle]]
* "Ghost in the Machine", episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' (''The Concept of Mind'', book)
* ''Ghost in the Machine'', album by Music/ThePolice
* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell''
* "Ghost in the Machine", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays''
* "Ghost in the Machine", episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis''
* "Ghosts in the Machine", episode of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''

[[folder:Jean-Paul Sartre]]
* "[[Recap/FireflyE14ObjectsInSpace Objects in Space]]", ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode (''Being and Nothingness'', book)
* "Other People", short story by Neil Gaiman (''No Exit'', play)
* "No Exit", episode of ''Series/TheWestWing'' (title of play)
* "No Exit", episode of ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred''
* ''No Exit'', album by Australian band The Angels/Angel City
* ''Huis Clos'' chapter from "Ayla and the Mad Scientist"

[[folder:Friedrich von Schiller]]
* ''The Gods Themselves'', novel by Creator/IsaacAsimov ("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain", line from ''Die Jungfrau von Orléans'')

[[folder:Sir Walter Scott]]
* ''Sons of the White Dragon'', the first novel in Marcus Pitcaithly's ''[[Literature/TheHerewardTrilogy Hereward]]'' trilogy. The quotation comes from Ulrica's Death Song in ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}''.

[[folder:Maurice Sendak]]
* "Where the Wild Things Are", episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (title of picture book)

[[folder:Robert Service]]
* "Where Silence Has Lease", ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode ("The Spell of the Yukon", poem)

[[folder:Dr. Seuss]]
* ''Oh, the Things I Know!'', advice/humor book by Al Franken (''Oh, the Places You'll Go!'', picture book)
* "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (''One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'', picture book)

[[folder:George Bernard Shaw]]
* "Pygmoelian", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'', play)

[[folder: Mary Shelley]]
* "The Post-Modern Prometheus", episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' (''The Modern Prometheus'', [[EitherOrTitle subtitle]] of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'')

[[folder:Percy Bysshe Shelley]]
* "Who Mourns for Adonais?", ''Star Trek'' episode ("Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of Creator/JohnKeats", poem)
* "Look on My Works, Ye Mighty...," ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', Chapter 11 ("Ozymandias", poem)
* ''Series/ThePrisoner: Shattered Visage'', graphic novel ("Ozymandias", poem)
* "The Lone And Level Sands", ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' episode ("Ozymandias", poem)
* "Prometheus Unbound", ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode (title of play; also a reference to Aeschylus)
* "Prometheus Unbound", ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' episode

[[folder: Paul Simon]]
* "We'd Like To Know A Little Bit About You For Our Files", ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' episode ("Mrs Robinson", song)

[[folder:Stephen Sondheim]]
* Most episodes of ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.
* Several chapters of John Weir's book ''The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket''.

[[folder:Horatio Spafford]]
* ''Peace like a River'', novel by Leif Enger ("It Is Well Within My Soul", hymn)

[[folder:A Star Is Born]]
* ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand''

[[folder:Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelley]]
* "Like a Virgin", episode of ''Series/VeronicaMars'' (title of song and Music/{{Madonna}} album)

[[folder:Robert Louis Stevenson]]
* ''The Black Adder'', first season of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' (''The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses'', novel)

[[folder:Robert E. Stripling]]
* "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been", episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' (repeated question in the 1947 House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing that lead to the Hollywood blacklist, in which Stripling was the chief investigator)

[[folder:Sara Teasdale]]
* "Literature/ThereWillComeSoftRains", short story by Creator/RayBradbury ("There Will Come Soft Rains", poem)

[[folder:Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]
* Literature
** ''The Mirror Crack'd'', novel by Creator/AgathaChristie ("The Lady of Shalott", poem)
** ''Sick of Shadows'', novel by Sharyn [=McCrumb=] ("The Lady of Shalott", poem)
** ''Tooth and Claw'', novel by Creator/JoWalton ("In Memoriam A.H.H.", poem)
** ''To Sail Beyond the Sunset'', novel by Creator/RobertAHeinlein ("Ulysses", poem)
** ''The Crimson Petal and the White'', novel by Michael Faber ("The Princess", poem)
* Live Action TV
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]", ''Doctor Who'' episode ("In Memoriam A.H.H.", poem)
* Movies
** ''Film/KindHeartsAndCoronets'' ("Lady Clara Vere de Vere", poem)
* Other
** ''Red in Tooth & Claw'', a chapter of the second volume of ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. ("In Memoriam A.H.H.", poem)
** ''Red of Tooth and Claw'', an album by the band Murder By Death

[[folder:Ernest Thayer]]
* "Homer at the Bat", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("Literature/CaseyAtTheBat", poem)

[[folder:Dylan Thomas]]
* "Dying of the Light", episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' ("Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", villanelle)
* ''Dying of the Light'', novel by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin
* "Into That Good Night", episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' ("Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", villanelle)
* ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' episode "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" ("The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait", poem)

[[folder:Alexis de Tocqueville]]
* "Democracy in America", ''Series/NorthernExposure'' episode (title of treatise)

[[folder:Pete Townshend]]
* "Won't Get Fooled Again", ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode (title of song)

[[folder:Mark Twain]]
* Live Action TV
** "The War Prayer", episode of ''Series/BabylonFive'' ("The War Prayer", essay)
** "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics", episode of ''Series/TheWestWing'' ("Chapters from My Autobiography", essay)
* Western Animation
** "The Principal and The Pauper", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', novel)
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[[folder:Virgil]]
* ''Theatre/ArmsAndTheMan'', Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw play (''Literature/TheAeneid'')
* "Greeks Bearing Gifts", episode of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' (''Literature/TheAeneid'')
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[[folder:Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]]
* "Ice 9", Joe Satriani song (''Cat's Cradle'', novel)
* "The Sirens of Titan", Al Stewart song (''The Sirens of Titan'', novel)
* ''Welcome to the Monkey House'', Dandy Warhols album (''Welcome to the Monkey House'', short story anthology)
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[[folder:David Foster Wallace]]
* "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," essay, and also title of a collection of essays)
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[[folder:Ken Walsh]]
* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', radio/book/TV/movie series created by DouglasAdams (play on the title of ''The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe'')
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[[folder:Margery Williams]]
* ''WebComic/SkinHorse'', webcomic by Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey Channing Wells (''The Velveteen Rabbit'', children's book)
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[[folder:Tennessee Williams]]
* "The Kindness of Strangers", episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' (''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'', play)
* ''Parrot Stories,'' debut album of Creator/AlexDay. (Also ''Streetcar'').
* "A Streetcar Named Marge", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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[[folder:The Wizard of Oz]]
* Live Action TV
** "Over the Rainbow", episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}''
** "The Man Behind the Curtain" and "There's No Place Like Home," episodes of ''Series/{{Lost}}''
* Western Animation
** "No Face Like Home", Slappy Squirrel segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''
** "There's No Place Like Home School", episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''
** "There's No Disgrace Like Home", episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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[[folder:Carter Godwin Woodson]]
* "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill", album (play off the title of ''The Miseducation of the Negro'', book)
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[[folder:William Wordsworth]]
* ''Splendor in the Grass'', 1961 film ("Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", poem)
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[[folder:William Butler Yeats]]
Practically all of these are from his poem "The Second Coming", which is a rather... ''popular'' source of titles. The National Lampoon once compiled a fake bestseller list consisting entirely of books whose titles come from "The Second Coming".
* ''Literature/ThingsFallApart'', novel by Chinua Achebe
* "Things Fall Apart", episode of ''Series/TheWestWing''
* ''Slouching Towards Bethlehem'', essay collection by Joan Didion
* "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", song by Joni Mitchell (although, the song is quite literally a rendering of Yeats' poem to music).
* "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}''
* ''Slouching Toward Gomorrah'' by Robert H. Bork and its subsequent rebuttal, ''Skipping Toward Gomorrah'' by Dan Savage.
* "Stumbling to Bethlehem", a song by Patti Scialfa.
* ''Ceremony'' and ''The Widening Gyre'', novels by Robert B. Parker
* Episodes of ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'':
** "The Widening Gyre"
** "Its Hour Come Round At Last"
** "Pitiless As The Sun"
* "The Second Coming", episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}''
* ''The Center Cannot Hold'', second book in the ''American Empire'' trilogy by Creator/HarryTurtledove
* The PC game ''Ceremony Of Innocence''
* ''SlouchingTowardsBedlam'', InteractiveFiction by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
* Creator/KevinSmith's Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Widening Gyre.
* ''Blood Dimmed Tides'', Tabletop RPG supplement for the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' line.
* "Turning and Turning" and "The Widening Gyre", episodes from the third season of SonsOfAnarchy
* The StarTrekNovelVerse sequence ''StarTrekMereAnarchy'', and all six books within the series (''Things Fall Apart''; ''The Centre Cannot Hold''; ''Shadows of the Indignant''; ''The Darkness Drops Again''; ''The Blood-Dimmed Tide''; and ''Its Hour Come Round'').
From other works:
* ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'', novel by Cormac [=McCarthy=] and film ("Sailing to Byzantium", poem)
* ''[[Literature/TheSarantineMosaic Sailing to Sarantium]]'', novel by Creator/GuyGavrielKay (title of poem; Sarantium is Kay's FantasyCounterpartCulture to Byzantium)
* ''Dancer from the Dance'', novel by Andrew Holleran ("Among School Children", poem)
* ''A Terrible Beauty'', pub in Renton, WA ("Easter 1916", poem)
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[[folder: Edward Young]]
* ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', Discworld novel ("Night Thoughts: Night I", poem)
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[[folder:Zhuangzi]]
* ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'', novel by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin (and two TV movie adaptations) (''Creator/{{Zhuangzi}}'', Chapter XXIII, philosophy[[note]]"To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high achievement. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on '''the lathe of heaven'''."[[/note]])
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* ''Film/The6thDay'' (Genesis 1:31)

* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'', trilogy by PhilipPullman (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem) The working title of the trilogy, ''The Golden Compasses'', as well. The American title of the first book, ''The Golden Compass'', comes from this, although the "compasses" Milton referred to were the drawing instrument, not the navigational tool which the alethiometer superficially resembles. (''Paradise Lost'', epic poem)

* ''Theatre/KissMeKate'', Broadway musical (''The Taming of the Shrew'', II.i)
* ''PassingStrange'', Broadway musical (''Theatre/{{Othello}} I''.iii)
* ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', play by TomStoppard (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}} V''.ii)

* ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', novel by JohnGreen (Julius Ceasar)

* The ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel series ''Mere Anarchy'', and all six books within the series (''Things Fall Apart''; ''The Centre Cannot Hold''; ''Shadows of the Indignant''; ''The Darkness Drops Again''; ''The Blood-Dimmed Tide''; and ''Its Hour Come Round'').

* The same quote but in [[AltumVidetur original latin]] gives the title of two ''{{Webcomic/Roommats}}'' pages. #326 and #327 "[[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-326-Quis-Custodiet-376916306 Quis Custodiet]] [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-327-Ipsos-Custodes-376917484 Ipsos Custodes]]?". These are also {{Pun Based Title}}s as appear in the arc where several characters from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' cameod.

** ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', {{W|orldWarII}}W2 history book and subsequent TV miniseries (''Theatre/HenryV'', IV.iii)

** ''TheSoundAndTheFury'', novel (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}} V''.i)

* ''TheFaultInOurStars'', novel by JohnGreen (Julius Ceasar)

* "The Sweet Hereafter", ''TwoPointFourChildren'' episode (title of film)

** According to Singer's commentary, the movie is directly named after an article from ''Time'' magazine. The article, of course, quoted ''{{Casablanca}}''

* "A Tale of Two Kitties", [[LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] cartoon marking the debut of Tweety.

* "The Lady Vanishes", ''{{Wings}} episode
* "The Lady Vanishes" ''{{Dallas}}'' episode

* Season 6 of ''TwoPointFourChildren'' had a run of episodes called "The Lady Vanishes", "Vertigo", "The Trouble With Harry" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

* ''TheThinRedLine'', novel by James Jones ("Tommy", poem)

* "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", ''TwoPointFourChildren'' episode

* "Dog Day Afternoon", ''TwoPointFourChildren'' episode (title of film)

* "When Saturday Comes", ''TwoPointFourChildren'' episode (title of magazine)

* ''The Life of the World to Come'', one of TheCompanyNovels by Kage Baker

* ''EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', film (''Eloisa to Abelard'', poem)

* "We'd Like To Know A Little Bit About You For Our Files", ''TwoPointFourChildren'' episode ("Mrs Robinson", song)

* ''NoCountryForOldMen'', novel by Cormac [=McCarthy=] and film ("Sailing to Byzantium", poem)

* "No Exit", episode of ''{{The 4400}}''

** ''WhatDreamsMayCome'', novel and subsequent movie adaptation (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}} III''.i)

* ''WhatDreamsMayCome'', 1998 (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', III.i)

* ''The Black Adder'', first season of ''Series/{{Blackadder}} (''The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses'', novel)

* ''Seize the Fire'', ''StarTrekTyphonPact'' novel ("The Tyger", poem)