"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me."
That one was hard to come up with. I KNEW the quote, but couldn't place it for a while.
I've been tempted to throw in something from "Meet The Feebles" here, but I think that me and my roommate may be the only two people on the planet to have seen it.
"And you wouldn't be so brave if you'd ever smelled the Bog of Eternal Stench"