In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Galadriel55]

"про запас" actually means "for a back-up" or "for a case of emergency". However, it is more accurate in the overall meaning the way I translated it, I think...

*pulls hand away from keyboard: must...not...discuss...Russian...!!!...*

OK. Seriously. I'm probably boring y'all to death with my Russian. Why does it keep coming up in so many threads that I post in? I have to stop.

[Galadriel55]

Looks foul, and feels foul as well.

Between major and minor there is but half a tone.

Она хоть бывшая, но поданная русская ~

To avoid problems with Google Translate (which is probably drunk again ), the latter one means She, though the former, is true/loyal/something-I-can't-translate Russian.

I think my new signature is very appropriate, considering that those Downers who are in school/Uni are going though the same pains as I (hetic studying and exams). It means, Hold on, people! Summer is comming soon!

[Kuruharan]

Here lies...

He was terrible at intrigue. Forgot which goblet he'd put the poison in. Wasn't finished gloating to his enemy when he keeled over.

...which I stole from some Dragon Age DLC (I think...I actually don't remember).

I replace it with

Nobody has more control over you than you yourself

[Formendacil]

It has been a very long run (almost three years, if I am right), but my quote from Sigurd and Gudrun has been replaced.

'Wake now, wake now! War is kindled. Now helm to head, to hand the sword. Wake now, warriors, wielding glory! To wide Valhöll ways lie open.'

[Kuruharan]

I hereby do lay to rest:

A government's job is to disappoint those whom they govern.

A statement made by a friend of mine intending to be satirical...but is completely true in every way.

I replace it with this:

...wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
- The House at Pooh Corner

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

I hereby do lay to rest:

A statement made by a friend of mine intending to be satirical...but is completely true in every way.

Isn't that a statement made by some...one? I remember reading it while searching up someone's famous quotes. Maybe it's morm's qoute's author. But then there are so many true quotes of that nature about the government that maybe it just sounds similar.

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Isn't that a statement made by some...one?

Why yes. It was a statement made by a friend of mine who currently lives in Kentucky.

I remember reading it while searching up someone's famous quotes. Maybe it's morm's qoute's author. But then there are so many true quotes of that nature about the government that maybe it just sounds similar.

It probably just sounds similar, or maybe my friend was quoting somebody and I didn't realize it.