What inspiring quote have you found here?

[diaglo]

And, of course, there's the perennial:

"What Would Teflon Billy Do?"

you mean this one: http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2722750&postcount=50

 

[Zander]

Someone has in their sig the following quote. I don't recall who that person is for which I apologise. I find the quote oddly comforting:

"However great your achievements or terrible your failures, a billion Chinese just don't care."

 

[howandwhy99]

And, of course, there's the perennial:

"What Would Teflon Billy Do?"

That's a great one, but I'm not sure I would call it perennial just yet.

I can acronym the following and I bet you still know what it says.

Odaditotg Atoeajpiotrt

Spoiler

I'm sure there is an acronym for Diaglo in there somewhere. The Gods have a sense of humor y'know.

 

[Klaus]

The weird thing is...

I understood that!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Nick Diamos

That's a great one, I think along the same lines

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

"The zeitgeist of OGC herein and within this manuscript of gamewielding shall be inscribed to be deciphered on the Blue Area of the Moon, not including Chapter Six. And anything from the SRD is Open Content."-Nellisir

 

[KB9JMQ]

I can acronym the following and I bet you still know what it says.

Odaditotg Atoeajpiotrt

Yep that is a great one. Should we feel weird that we understand that ?

 

[Mark Hope]

Odaditotg Atoeajpiotrt

I felt compelled to hurt myself for understanding that one.

I also keep a file with quotes from here and elsewhere that have tickled my fancy. There are lots in there, but these are my absolute favourites. However, I never bother to note the source, so to all of those who I am now quoting without atribution, my apologies (except for the first one, because I happen to remember that it's by George Bernard Shaw, and he's dead anyway):

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I wonder why they don't complain that in Chess, the queen is 'broken', bishops only being able to move diagonally is 'unrealistic', and that castles shouldn't even be allowed to move at all?

Offering unique dice to gamers is like waving a gold chain in front of a pimp.

Some people may think they're puttin' it to the Man by wearing their d20 hate on their sleeve, but really, the Man wouldn't know a d12 from a Dee Snider. The Man thinks we're all stupid dorks.

Run my little chunks of XP, Run!!

Actually, I dislike the term “undead”. I'd appreciate it if you referred to us as “differently alive”. Or “vitally challenged” if you like.

The whole idea is that there isn't just one cosmic force about to destroy Creation, there's a whole bunch of cosmic (and not-so-cosmic) forces that are all about to destroy Creation. Between declining empires of elemental supermen, zombie hordes, vengeful elder ghosts, dead primal gods, imprisoned demon-Titans, Cthulhu elves, Satanic pirates, necrophagic dinosaur-men, miscellaneous ancient artifact/WMDs, international mercantile conspiracies, curse-addled reality ninjas, Conan-wannabe werewolves, assorted Godzilla-knockoffs, well-meaning but terminally misguided anime heroes, mutants up the wazoo, and the Machine God and his Aztec Cyborgs™, Creation is about ten seconds away from getting gang-banged to death by every epic-fantasy cliché in the book all at once.

*roll* No, you don't find any traps, and in fact that big red lever over there appears to be made out of candy!

Einstein couldn't just be a rather clever German; he has to be Viscount Einstein of Earth's Lost Moon, Prince of the Laser Lobsters, who created relativity in a psychic duel with Hitler's cyber-clone and the Anti-Pope Francis Bacon.

NOBODY expects the D&D rules revision! Our chief change is the ranger. And the druid. Our TWO chief changes are the ranger and the druid and the way magic spells work. Arg! Our three chief changes are the ranger, the druid, the way magic works and shiny new covers I'LL COME IN AGAIN!

God grant me the strength to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot, AND FLAMETHROWERS FOR HANDS!!!

And my all time #1 that should be branded into the flesh of all DMs everywhere:

No storyline survives contact with the players.

 

[KaosDevice]

I can't remember who said it or quoted on here but it was essentially to the effect of the Cthulhian outer gods looking at the earth as a source of experience to level up and collect followers. It made me chuckle.

 

[Conaill]

Some other pieces of ENWorld Wisdom:

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Nick Diamos

An oldie and a goody, but I'm not sure who Nick Diamos is, or why his name should be attached to this.

This is also known as "Hanlon's Razor", after a Robert J. Hanlon, and has also varioulsy been attributed to Napoleon, Goethe, Heinlein and others.