In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Pitchwife]

Retired for now, but bound to be back sooner or later (it's just too good):

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men fight for what they meant under another name. - William Morris

Replaced for the moment by

Come not between the sheep and his pasture! Or he will not slay thee in turn. He will bear thee away on his horns to the pens of lamentation, where the tufts of thy head shall be nibbled, chewed and ruminated on in all eternity.

which came to me this afternoon as I was reconstructing the fence that keeps our two rams from my wife's flower-bed. (I know, it's rather silly...)