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The Rogue Elf
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Live & Learn...
I was just wondering what were some of the sayings or quotes everyone lives by. I have a very long list, but I thought I'd share my favorites...
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." --Longfellow "As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." --John Wheeler "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw "Stop looking for good sense here, settle for any." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." --Martin Luther King "The walls most difficult to penetrate are those that surround our hearts." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "Don't knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run, he hates that." --Anonymous Last edited by Rána Eressëa : 02-27-2002 at 05:36 PM. |
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Uk
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"Enjoy life"
"Sh*t happens" "Its better to give, than to receive" "one ring to rule them all..........etc" - Tolkien "uve never had a friend like me" - genie in Disneys Aladin Sorry but these are really lame, and i cant think of any clever long ones at the moment, u must be doing a school topic on this or something? andy
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Radically Tolkienited
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: If home is where the heart is, and my heart is in heaven...that should answer your question. <+><
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"Dont consider yourself worthy for something you dont consider others to be worthy of"- Abbie Crane(Me)
"God dont create no junk"- Some one I dunno who. "Frodo Lives"-Someone from I think the Seventies "Dont meddle in the affairs of DRAGONS for you are CRUNCHY and taste good with KETCHUP"-My favorite bumper sticker "If a man knows not and knows not he knows not he is a fool-Shun him. If a man knows not and knows he knows not he is simple-Teach him. If a man knows and knows not he knows he is asleep-Wake him If a man knows and knows he knows he is wise-Follow him"-an Arabian Proverb "I think I'm gettin' the hang of this"-Sam Gamgee from LOTR:The Movie. Where there is smoke there is fire- An Indian Proverb
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Jesus is my all in all <><+<><+<><+<><+<><+<><+ People who are so concerned with escapism do have a name...we call them jailers. ~J.R.R Tolkien Radically Saved, Totally Tolkienited GOD... BLESS... AMERICA... |
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the greg the admin
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: NJ
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live & let live...or is it live and let die?
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protector of orphaned rabbits
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place!
Posts: 1,236
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"MY NAME IS GRAPES" ~ arthur Oemke
yea, i'll think of more inspiration al stuff in a minute.. oh yea! "i sit beside the fire and think..etc" "the road goes ever on and on..etc." and the bath song these are very useful to know and have handy
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan?
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Look before you leap; it will save you a good many bruises. ~ I dunno who said that.
I wil try and think of some more later
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Self-Appointed Lord of the Free Peoples of the General Messages
Join Date: Nov 2001
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” - Voltaire (1694-1778) “We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.” - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” - Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
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Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Far off in a dream
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"Never smile, even when you are sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile!" - Anon.
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken - winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes My sig "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take a risk with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." - Eric Klein (one of my friends)
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The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! ![]() "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come." |
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the greg the admin
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: NJ
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emplynx, that Thomas Edison one is mine! I use it all the time as an away message, and I live merely about two miles from the site which he invented the lightbulb.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: la dee da
Posts: 275
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"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"True friends stab you in the front." "Even a tough little chicken can only take so much pickin'" |
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Enting
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Oklahoma
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
- Dame Edith Sitwell I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred, I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. - Evelyn Underhill You can experience the reality of what you believe in only one way, by putting it to the test. There is nothing at all that will light up the flame in your lantern except the wind of your going. Nothing else at all. -Elizabeth Goudge Logic doesn't always make sense. -Me |
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Halfwitted
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Eryn Vorn
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"If you're lost in the desert, look for a well." - The Little Prince
"Each of us is like a solitary candle, alone in the dark." - The Abyss "Majority does not determine sanity." - George Orwell "No man has walked so long in the Shadow that he cannot return to the Light." - Robert Jordan (lol!) "It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years." - Don't know who.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Canada
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Here's some I liked:
"Endeavour to do good" - a sign outside a Buddhist temple. Simple and sweet. I like it.
"Live like there's no tomorrow. Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt." - I've seen variations of this one, so I may have got it mixed up. The most recent time I saw it was in a bathroom stall. I find it hard to live up to, except for the dancing part, but it's nice. |
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Bard of Mangled Songs
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila
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"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live you're life in such a way that when you die the world cries and you rejoice" - an old indian proverb, I think "The trouble with an-eye-for-an-eye is that the whole world goes blind" - Gandhi "Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts certainly do" - Anonymous "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" - my Chem Teacher
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Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert Accio, Ash Nazg! Elennuru s?*la lúmenn' omentielvo (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures... |
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The Rogue Elf
Join Date: Jan 2002
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"Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run..." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice (Ah, yes, I love this fellow
![]() "'Seek and ye shall find,' they say...but they don't say what you'll find." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "Doors have locks, locks need keys, which you don't have. Let's hope the doors are open." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "The grass is greener on the other side...until you get over there and find out it's all artificial turf." --Anonymous "Video games don't effect kids. If 'Pacman' effected our generation as children, we would run around in darkened rooms while munching on pills and listening to repetitive music." --Anonymous "Curiousity killed the cat, but the cat has got nine lives - and you don't." --Me Last edited by Rána Eressëa : 02-28-2002 at 04:51 AM. |
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Bard of Mangled Songs
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila
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"Find out what you don't do well, then don't do it." - ALF
"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans." - John Lennon "When it comes to hair, winter is fine. It's the fall you have to watch out for." - my mom to my dad "It is better to light just one little candle than to mumble in the dark" - me
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Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert Accio, Ash Nazg! Elennuru s?*la lúmenn' omentielvo (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures... |
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan?
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"Lá carita i hamil mára alasaila ná, not to do what you judge good would be unwise" ~ Tolkien, somewhere in his many works
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The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka |
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium)
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Well I try to live by them...
Many problems are solved solely by not making a problem out of them. To dream of the person you want to be, is to waste the person you are. You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish proverb or so they told me) Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistant one. (A. Einstein) |
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan?
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"What we call human nature is in actuality human habit" ~Jewel
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The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka |
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EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED
DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Littleton, CO
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Here are a couple of mine....
"My candle's burning at both ends, it will not last the night; but ah my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light". - Edna St Vincent Millay "If you set out to take Vienna, you take Vienna" - Napoleone Buonoparte "Ours in not to reason why, ours is just to do and die" - Wadsworth(?) "I would never join any club that would stoop to having a person like me as a member" - Groucho Marx "Frame by Frame, death by drowning...in your own...analysis...." - King Crimson, Discipline, "Frame by Frame" "So have a good drown...As you go down...All alone...Dragged down by the stone...." - Pink Floyd, Animals, "Dogs" "Remember, folks, here's a little bit of clown in all of us. G'night and God Bless" - Red Skelton "In an insane world, the sane man must appear insane" - Mr. Spock, Star Trek "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. teach him to fish, and you feed him for life." - Unk "Two great men, yet brothers not, make the North united stand; its power is seen to grow, and fear posses'd the Eastern lands" - Al Stewart, "Nostradamus" "In the darkness, light is life" - Sean, Cave Meister Extraordinaire "No, THIS is the summit! It's not much farther.....C'mon, guys, we can make it..." - Me, Pikes Peak Ascension, 2000 "Holy Hannah!" - Me, Favorite Interjectional Phrase "Load, tell me a story about another time you were a major load..." - Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000 And a few anonymous ones: "Avoid alcohol while taking this product" "Press Flap A into Tab B" "Warning: Do Not Immerse" "Do not remove this tag under penalty of law" "Please ensure you are fully clothed before opening door" "Management not responsible for lost articles"
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
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