In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Rilwen Gamgee]

Alas, my old signature must lay to rest; I would keep it, but there's the 3-line rule to consider... Analogies are wonderful :

"A film is like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin." -- Denzel Washington

As to my new one, it's quite a lovely psalm-- and a long one, at that! My signature is but a snippet.

[Lindolirian]

"A good reputation is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."

I liked this one because of the attitude toward reputation which is a lot like it is here on the Downs, and also because of the day of death thing which goes right along with the morbid theme. But I got tired of it. I'm still leaving the other one up because it's not ready to come down yet.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

1. Aragorn: What do you expect? You're a stupid and pointless character.

2. Théoden: So eat, drink and be Pippin! Forget the fact that tomorrow we may be needed to ride our horses at breakneck speeds!

3. Sauron: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.

4. Éomer: Is it just me, or does he keep talking, like we're listening or something?

5. Beacon man #1: How did we get stuck with this job anyway?

6. Merry: Raised to the ground? Isn't that an oxymoron?

7. Aragorn: But it’s near the water. I’m afraid of the water.

8. Boromir: I'm just here for the refreshments.

9. Faramir: In place of a dark lord, you will have a QUEEN! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the...

10. Faramir: Uh . . . Orcs killed him?

These are quotes from the New Movie Script project.

Too much links. The golden letters blind me.

[Rimbaud]

Never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea.

Ah, Nick.

[The Saucepan Man]

The dough-faced ploughboy coughed and hiccoughed his way through Loughborough.

A wonderful illustration of the complexities of pronunciation in the English language, courtesy of a letter in my daily newspaper.

But now for something completely different ...

[Mithalwen]

Brooke replaced Brooke....

so farewell then "Most individual and bewildering ghost" maybe I will be a bewildering ghost in my next death........ it was a hard call...


and while I am at it..I am ready for another change ....so I may as well add this now

"Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance" ..

[Nuranar]

Farewell to thee, O plain-spoken sailor-man!

Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate.

Super-points to whoever can identify the source for this next one. (It ain't gonna happen. )

[HerenIstarion]

...You shouldn’t listen to all you hear...

[Formendacil]

"Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him." - Proverbs 26:12

Farethee well, first of my avatars....

I would not have replace thee, but as I was posting in this thread, I was struck with an idea for a new avatar.

Therefore, in a matter of minutes, thou wilt be no more.

[Amanaduial the archer]

And here I lay to rest possibly my shortest sig, duration-wise:

The whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume

But then, it was only meant to be a temporary, Easter style siggy. And along comes my new one, which is from the book I am currently reading: The Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams. Brilliant book, though maybe a little grisly. Snitter, the character who sings this little ditty, is a brilliant character: utterly mad, but all the better for it...

The whitecoats painted a mouse bright blue, and stuffed his ears with sneezing glue.
They shone a biscuit in his eye, to see what lay beyond the sky.
The mouse he knew not what he did, he blew them up with a saucepan lid...

[Firefoot]

Didn't last very long, but another random quote laid to rest:

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."