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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#1151: Jul 13th 2015 at 1:53:43 PM

"Has anyone noticed that our country looks like a chicken?" - General Tso

But seriously, China's borders look kinda like a chicken.

"If he's the man of steel, I spit Kryptonite" - Winston Churchill rapping his support of Operation Unthinkable

"The gatling guns aren't here yet? Oh well, #YOLO" - George Armstron Custer, June 24, 1876

"Do these bodyguards make me look short?" - Napoléon Bonaparte

"Has anyone noticed that our country looks like a dong? Finland's the balls and Sweden is the shaft. I can't rule over a kingdom that looks like male genitalia. Arrange for the Russians to take the rest of the east at once." - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.

SantosLHalper Since: Aug, 2009
#1152: Jul 13th 2015 at 2:56:00 PM

"No doubt the world will remember my heroic efforts to defeat the Taiping rebels!" -General Tso

OmegaShadowcry Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man from The Arena Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man
#1153: Jul 26th 2015 at 9:35:32 AM

"Next, don't spend so much time planning. Just go Leeroy Jenkins on them!" -Sun Tzu

"If the root of all evils is a love of money, then the sum of all evils is— Wait a minute, the sum of evil is still evil..." -Numerous Philosophers

"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous
MrsRatched Judging you from Nowhere Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Judging you
#1154: Aug 17th 2015 at 6:17:29 AM

"I have had it with these motherfucking stakes in this motherfucking plains"

Joan D'Arc

"Damn diarrhea"

Tokugawa Ieyasu

edited 17th Aug '15 6:18:23 AM by MrsRatched

Haw Haw Haw
WillyFourEyes I have seen the amateur, and it is me. (Old Enough To Drive) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#1157: Sep 13th 2015 at 9:07:14 PM

This kinda thing may have already been done here but still.

"Alright guys let's do this. ADDDOOOOLLLFFFF HITTTLLLEERRR!!!!"

-Adolf Hitler, upon invading the USSR

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
simon_lucas98 Since: Feb, 2015
#1158: Sep 14th 2015 at 4:16:00 PM

"Naw, man. Nuclear war is nothing to be freaked out about."

- Oppenheimer

edited 14th Sep '15 7:57:58 PM by simon_lucas98

SpaceWolf from The Other Rainforest Since: Apr, 2012
#1159: Sep 14th 2015 at 4:19:43 PM

"These socks are too fluffy for my taste." ~ Oscar Wilde

This is a signature.
WilliamRadarStorm my current job from News Station NT Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
my current job
#1160: Sep 14th 2015 at 6:08:21 PM

"You. Stop drinking now." Several white people, Civil Rights-era.

The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
SantosLHalper Since: Aug, 2009
#1161: Feb 27th 2016 at 1:02:37 PM

"There is nothing worse than thread necromancy." - Abraham Lincoln

CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from that rainy city where they throw fish (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#1162: Feb 27th 2016 at 3:31:14 PM

"Go to a play? Sure. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?" - Abraham Lincoln

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#1163: Feb 29th 2016 at 10:42:10 AM

I'm going to go down in history for how good I am as a Shakespearean actor - John Wilkes Booth.

handlere The Exia is my waifu from Hell Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Robosexual
The Exia is my waifu
#1164: Feb 29th 2016 at 11:02:28 AM

"But the question is- will it blend?" Joseph Mengele, pitching a new experiment to Hitler.

Seen in the profile picture: the Gundam Flauros Rebake Full City, piloted by McGillis Itsuka, captain of the Turbines
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#1165: Feb 29th 2016 at 11:48:25 AM

"Damn it, who spiked the cocktails?"-Socrates

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#1166: Feb 29th 2016 at 12:10:40 PM

[up] [up]Jesus Chris'.

...I'm going to Hell for laughing at this. But since I'm here:

"If you want blood, you've got it!" - Elizabeth Bathory's servants to her.

edited 29th Feb '16 12:11:05 PM by Gaon

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
golgothasArisen Since: Jan, 2015
#1167: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:26:16 AM

"I'll take you to the candy shop." -Marilyn Manson

edited 3rd Mar '16 5:26:54 AM by golgothasArisen

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"
PresidentStalkeyes The Best Worst Psychonaut from United Kingdom of England-land Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
The Best Worst Psychonaut
#1168: Mar 3rd 2016 at 3:44:29 PM

"Y'know, when my daddy was Director o' the CIA, he warned former President Carter that these fish, they were a little temperamental. They didn't like bein' fished for. But he didn't listen. An' yet we blame the fish for that attack! I dunno about you, but I think it's downright unconstitutional. I know the human being an' fish can coexist peacefully. I'm gonna make it happen. And that's why, Tony-tones, you gotta ban Fish and Chips!"

~George W Bush

"If you think like a child, you will do a child's work."
handlere The Exia is my waifu from Hell Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Robosexual
The Exia is my waifu
#1169: Mar 5th 2016 at 11:50:36 AM

We've got your T-shirt and you left fingerprints and all, you're so dumb! Yeah, you're really dumb! Oh well!
-Police Officer in Victorian London

Seen in the profile picture: the Gundam Flauros Rebake Full City, piloted by McGillis Itsuka, captain of the Turbines
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#1170: Mar 5th 2016 at 1:14:06 PM

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but it's obvious you came to the fight unarmed.

—Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, aka Notorious R.B.G.

edited 5th Mar '16 1:17:46 PM by TheWanderer

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
Until further notice
#1171: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:52:24 PM

"I will build a great wall - and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me - and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our Northern border, and I will make the barbarians pay for that wall. Mark my words."
- Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China

edited 8th Mar '16 4:09:35 PM by Pyrite

Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
SpaceWolf from The Other Rainforest Since: Apr, 2012
#1172: Mar 8th 2016 at 4:02:13 PM

"I am the walrus." (Oscar Wilde)

edited 8th Mar '16 4:02:25 PM by SpaceWolf

This is a signature.
Superjohn Boisterous woman from Empire Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Boisterous woman
#1173: Mar 8th 2016 at 4:28:09 PM

Curse you sudden but inevitable betrayal!- Julius Caesar.

"Tatsumi... No matter how you spin it, we commit murder."
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#1174: Mar 8th 2016 at 6:14:25 PM

We don't need no water—Let the motherfucker burn! Burn, motherfucker, burn!-Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Who watches the watchmen?
golgothasArisen Since: Jan, 2015
#1175: Mar 8th 2016 at 8:04:45 PM

"We should lend some water to foreign countries, since they need it more than we do." -California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger

edited 8th Mar '16 8:05:27 PM by golgothasArisen

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"

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