In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard
I enjoy reading everyone’s signature quotes, but there is one problem – when the signature is changed, it changes on all past posts as well. Now I realize it’s time to change mine (it is somewhat long!), but I’ve grown rather attached to it. (Besides, I promised Kuruharan a bit of immortality for his balrog wing amendment on my quote!) So I would like to collect signature quotes here; before you throw your old quote into the Timeless Void, please turn it into a message and place it here to ensure that it will be remembered as long as the Barrow-Downs lives - pardon me, remains dead! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Here’s mine: RIP! “Mercy!“, cried Gandalf. “If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?” “The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering Seas,” laughed Pippin. “Of course! What less? But I am not in a hurry tonight.” “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things: Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – of cabbages – and kings – And why the sea is boiling hot – and whether balrogs have wings.” Lewis Carroll (amended by Kuruharan) [ October 15, 2002: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ] |
yes... just like posts....
i only put my nicks thats all but others put stuff of the book that ill maybe do... some times the sigatures are longer than the post! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] |
Why do I have a feeling the Barrow-Wight is about to bury this thread? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
For what it's worth, here are a few of mine that I enjoyed using. Quote:
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Just for the record, and in case I ever change mine (change is inevitable, after all) I'll rest assured that it's immortalized here:
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Incidentaly, I think my icon is better than Sharku's, being more colorful and an original piece by me. Ha, take that, Sharku. (e-mail me if you want to borrow some of my artwork for your very own icon!) [ March 31, 2002: Message edited by: Shadowfax Clawson ] |
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-- Sharkû, Photography Artist Extraordinaire |
Well, I still think mine is cooler. I used 6 different artistic mediums to create it. Perhaps I'll make a new, grander, even more ostentatious icon for future smiting.
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I would have to agree on "Sharkey's is better" just for the simple reason of, "You can actually see his". [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Here is my old sig, I laid down to rest. "'Don't meddle in the affairs of wizards,' he said in lofty tones, "for they are subtle and quick to anger.' A fellow sorcerer said that. Good at his job, knew alot about jewelry. Not bad at fireworks, either. Wasn't the snappy dresser Merlin was, though. Let's see, whats his name? Raist--no, that was the irritating young chap, kept hacking and spitting up blood all the time. Disgusting. The other's name was Gand-something or other..." [ April 08, 2002: Message edited by: zifnab ] |
I can't see myself changing my singnature, but just in case here it is:
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Thanks Thingol. http://www.plauder-smilies.de/person/znaika.gif
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Here I am depositing a truly great quote (especially if you are familiar with Bob's persona):
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Here lies my second signature:
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Lo, even Stephanos lays down the most concise of signatures...
'All is vanity' - Ecclesiastes May my notice of narcissism lay here in peace. Thank you and good night, quiet stars. |
They are dropping like the proverbial flies this week. Although I believe this latest addition to be "Not Dead, Only Sleeping".
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform ~ Arthur Rimbaud. |
I'll deposit my "resting" sig here too, just so I don't forget it [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Well, here goes this gem:
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Ok, I've changed my signature partly, so the part that got cut out will now R.I.P. here..
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How the mighty are fallen.
"I saw two shooting stars last night; I wished on them but they were only satellites. Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care." ~ Billy Bragg, A New England |
Here's my old one:
"There are no happy endings. Because nothing ends." -The Last Unicorn Not in the least Tolkien, yet still reminds me of him somehow. The idea that its all one big story - like Sam said, on the stairs of Cirith Ungol, about how (serious paraphrasing here) "we're in the story still! don't the tales never end?" "no, the tales themselves don't end, but the people in them come, and go when their part's ended." I always liked that part... |
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I've recently changed my sig, so I'll put both what it was and what it is now (so I don't have to write another entry here later [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]) RIP, old sig For, what with my whole world-wide wandering, What with my search drawn out thro' years, my hope Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope With that obstreperous joy success would bring, I hardly tried now to rebuke the spring My heart made, finding failure in its scope. -From "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning "Well, what is the answer?" Bilbo said, "It's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think from the noise you are making" -Bilbo to Gollum, during the riddle game And, my current sig, which I think I'll keep for a while longer. May those who love us, love us, and those who don't love use, may God tun their hearts, and if He cannot turn thei hearts, may He turn their ankles so that we may know them by their limping. -Irish blessing "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." -Abraham Lincoln [ June 13, 2002: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ] |
Here I lay to rest my first sig. ^^ Twill eventually be a quote in my story, but for now, it's retired and replaced. Requiescat en pace, and so forth.
"After four thousand years, death, blood, famine, war and pain, I'm left with the simple fact that it's all worth it because I fell in love with a twenty something (although she was fifteen when we met) writer from Northern Canada, who just happens to incinerate things when angry. If that doesn't tell you the Creator has a sense of humor, I don't know what will." --Puck, Brother Mine And I'm adding my second sig here: "You want to know what I realized then? I looked at him and realized I would fight, I would wound, I would kill, I would bleed, I would die and I would live for him and there was nothing I could do about it. It scared me, it shook me, but it was simple truth. It still is." --Meredith, Brother Mine Adding third sig now: Ye shall be free from slavery and ye shall dance, sing, and feast. Music shall surround you, for mine is the ecstasy of the spirit, and mine is also the joy of the earth! I do not demand sacrifice! For behold, I am the Mother of all living things! Create and heal! Be strong, yet gentle. Be noble, yet reverent. Bring forth and replenish! --The Charge of the Goddess [ June 22, 2002: Message edited by: Naaramare ] [ July 12, 2002: Message edited by: Naaramare ] |
Cutting down my sig, so goodbye "The light at the end of the tunnel is the on-coming train" I'll miss you, but since my exams are nearly over, you're not as relevant as you once were [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]
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So strange.. me, leaving my sig behind. It will probably be back one day, since it's one of my favorites. In the meantime, RIP.
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins. And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope. --Lloyd Alexander My new sig may not last long, either... hmmmmmmmmm. EDIT: I changed my sig again a few weeks ago, and didn't feel like digging up the thread. No reason to make another post, I suppose; I'll just drop it off here. It would carry off objects of which it grew fond And protect them by dropping them into the pond. --Edward Gorey, "The Doubtful Guest" If I can't figure out how to add extra spaces to my current sig, it may soon join the others.... --Belin Ibaimendi [ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: Belin ] |
<FONT COLOR=cc98cc>"Twenty-one!" said Gimli.
"Good!" said Legolas. "But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife-work up here." Everyone's prince will come; mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions. Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life. That was my old sig, now I just have a fairy. [ June 16, 2002: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ] |
i changed my sig a while ago, but i still remember it:
"I am not a tree-root, sir" i had that simply because it's my one of my favourite sentences in LotR, and it was the only thing i could think of when i was filling in my profile. [ June 16, 2002: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ] [ June 18, 2002: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ] |
Three books for the publishers under the eye
Seven for the zealists in their halls alone Nine for paying parents doomed to buy In the land of Tolkien where the readers lie. One book to rule them all, one book to find them One book to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the land of Tolkien where the readers lie. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Took it out of my signature because it was too long. |
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I recently removed the poem from mine since it was too long. I'm about to add to my sig, though. *grins*
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. |
I recently removed the poem from mine since it was too long. I just now redid the entire thing. Here's my old one:
AIM me: BulbaPk or CTHandSM All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. "The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain." -Bertrand Russell "There is no great genius without some touch of madness."-Lucius Annaeus Seneca Best wishes and tasty fishes until we meet again my friend! [ June 18, 2002: Message edited by: QuickSlash ] |
A change of mood has made me decide it's time to change my quote. Here's the old one:
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The new one has to do with the origin of my chosen name. |
when i first registered, i had
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Finnaly, I have what i have now. A Faerie. |
I just cut my sig down; this is what i eliminated:
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Your one-stop shop for Squatter's old signatures
Edit: I have amalgamated all of my discarded signatures into one post for neatness' sake. Enjoy perusing, and feel free to lift them for your own use. I never use the same sig twice.
In Memoriam In order to conform with the welcome new forum regulations I've selected a shorter signature quotation. I hereby commit the body of the old one to this thread. Rest in peace, old friend. Quote:
-- It's been a while since I changed my signature, so it's time to bid farewell to Herbert Asquith on the futility of war: Quote:
-- It's time to lay this one to rest with its fellows. Quote:
-- Although I used it for such a short time this quotation is by no means lower in my esteem than the others. Quote:
The twentieth century makes way for the third as Owen makes way for Terentianus Maurus. And in the natural course of things, Terentianus Maurus makes way for a rather more famous writer. Therefore his words of wisdom are set here for posterity: Quote:
-- This one was struck down by a sudden change of mood before its time: Quote:
This little gem has only been supplanted by Juvenal's definition that just about sums up the world as we know it. Quote:
A new forum merits a new signature. I lay the old one in the family vault. Quote:
-- Time, like an ever-flowing stream, bears all my sigs away. This nationalistic gem sums up an unsavoury national opinion in a nutshell. Quote:
Dante has made way for a local boy. The quotation's brilliant, though, and I'm sure that Tolkien must have liked it too. Quote:
-- I like Edgar's 'Poor Tom' act as much as the next heartless sadist, but when I found W.P. Ker's translation from a line in Hamthesmol, it just had to go. Quote:
Hamthesmol in translation makes way for an unfamiliar version of a familiar story. Blame my new linguistic studies for this change. Quote:
-- Once again we Britons are set to choose which gang of criminal incompetents will lead us for the next few years, so some very new Old English makes way for some rather more apposite old English Latin. Quote:
And continuing the trend of signatures in other languages, one English scholar makes way for a later one. Quote:
-- It's a good proverb, but it had to go in the end. I'm restoring my old habit of turning Wilfred Owen quotes into links. ”Man dēþ swā hē byþ þonne hē mōt swā hē wile” "A person does as he is when he may do as he will" - Durham Proverb XIV -- Well, nobody can stand war poetry for too long, so I've replaced Wilfred with a spot of aimless humour. Here's the defunct quote again Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout 'I see your lights!' But ours had long died out. -- This wasn't the best of my signatures, but it's the only one that I invented. I've replaced it with something rather more polished. Quote:
The time has come to replace Oscar Wilde with something else, so this quotation is going to its long home. Quote:
I think it's time to abandon my Latin silliness. Here let it remain for posterity. -- Tolkien rolls in his grave as I replace an Old English elegy with something French. C'est la vie. Quote:
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I guess I've just got bored of this one, I still really like it, but I wanted Al Capone's quote in my sig and quite like it only being one line.
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I cut my sig down to only one quote. Here's the one I lay down to rest:
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa |
Mine was nothing special but here it is anyway....
Why? Why should I know these things you ask me? I live this age day by day and learn more each day as you do. And when the new age comes? I will not know no more about that than I did of this one when it first came. |
well, if i can recollect all of them
(un chronological order): ...things might have been different, but they could not have been better... ...but what they are really like, or what lies beyond them, only those can tell, who have climbed them... Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him. <font color= "red">Beware of the wights if your path leads that way <font color= "red">Anger lurks here where is no trace of day <font color= "red">Roaming souls of the vagabond world <font color= "red">Raging in Darkness under skies ever cold <font color= "red">Over the valley and under the hill <font color= "red">Wraiths walk abroad, host of fear and thrill <font color= "red">Deadly their eyes, greenish burning within <font color= "red">Oath to keep, cracking bones and no skin <font color= "red">Woven are spells of the powerful word <font color= "red">Never to fail, be unbroken their sword… <font color= "red">So, beware of the wights on the <A HREF="http://www.barrowdowns.com" TARGET=_blank><font color= "red">Barrow-Downs</A> way! O! Water cold we may pour at need down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed; but better is Beer, if drink we lack, and Water Hot poured down the back that's all, methinks [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ] [ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ] [ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ] [ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ] |
I laith here to rest my former signatures.
1) "Ai! Laurie lantar lassi surinen, yeni unotime ve ramar aldaron!" 2) "Don't be humble. You're not that great." -Golda Meir, ruler of India 3) My beloved black-haired exotic dancer fairy... 4) "Notwithstanding, we'll make millions writing books on the way it should have been." -Incubus, "Warning" 5) And the final quote, which I now shall lay to rest: "My only conclusion is that I have no conclusions." Here's one that would have been here, but I never got a chance to put it in: "What's the point of having your cake if you can't eat it?" [ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: Ithaeliel ] |
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Nothin' gets atchya like a baked possum- unless there're two! I nice little quote. I forget where I got it from, so I might have taken it from some's sig without noticing, sorry if I did. The only proof that there is intelligant life elsewhere is that it hasn't tried to visit us. One of my favorites. Don't throw a brick straight up. May the Force be With You... Don't sweat petty things, don't pet sweaty things. [ July 10, 2003: Message edited by: Gimli Son Of Gloin ] |
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