Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher
Truer words were never spoken
I love Mark Twain quotes:
It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
-- Commenting on the Bible.
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off guard and allow you opportunity to commit more.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Quote from: "Amanda"I love Mark Twain quotes.
But you forgot his best Book-related quote: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it is too dark to read.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"In this great future, you can't forget your past" -Bob Marley
"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." -William Shedd
"So dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay" -Robert Frost
Quote from: "Anwen""A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." -William Shedd
I love this one, Anwen. I hadn't ever come across it before.
One of my favorite quotes is an old Japanese haiku that no one knows who wrote it, but I found it in a book called "KOWAIDAN" by Lafcadio Hearn:
CHOU WO OU
KOKORO MOCHITASHI
ITSUMADEMO
"May my heart always chase after butterflies"
Oh! i collect quotes :)
I save them in text files and pull them out whenever I need a little extra...
I have several favorites, but my files are at home!
I'll share later.
I LOVE quotes :)
So know we knoe what Mikel has on his google homepage...
Quote from: "Eimi"One of my favorite quotes is an old Japanese haiku that no one knows who wrote it, but I found it in a book called "KOWAIDAN" by Lafcadio Hearn:
CHOU WO OU
KOKORO MOCHITASHI
ITSUMADEMO
"May my heart always chase after butterflies"
I love this, lady! It's so wistful...
I love all the quotes Mary Engelbreit uses in her art :) Here's one of them:
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength." ~ Francis De Sales
"You can have a one perfect moment - even with nougat."
Anybody who knows where it's from gets a co-post.
Well, I haven't read the book, but I know where its from... Would that count?
Quote from: "Amanda"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
This became one of my favorite quotes once I grew out of my pretentious phase. ;) Man, I suffered so much in my teenage years to be able to look down my nose at people who read fun books!
Thank goodness I got over it. :D
Quote from: "Bree"Man, I suffered so much in my teenage years to be able to look down my nose at people who read fun books!
Thank goodness I got over it. :D
I'm glad you got over it too bree because then I'm sure you'd be looking down your nose so much here your eyes would be permanently crossed!
Quote from: "Bree"Quote from: "Amanda"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
This became one of my favorite quotes once I grew out of my pretentious phase. ;) Man, I suffered so much in my teenage years to be able to look down my nose at people who read fun books!
Thank goodness I got over it. :D
Oh the horrors or middle school and high school when we had to read the "classics"!!! My own personal form of rebellion was to never, ever read a full book we were assigned. Always read just enough so that I would do well, but usually only read the begining and the end, never the un-important middle! :cheers:
I read all the books on my high school reading lists, even though you only had to read a portion of the list. They'd made the list longer than you had to do so folks would have options.
I will honestly say that I haven't sought out 'classics' since highschool though! lol
I tell you what though, I HATED when we as a class would be reading a book, because we'd do a chapter a week and by the second week I'd be done with the book. lol
Quote from: "Paula""You can have a one perfect moment - even with nougat."
Anybody who knows where it's from gets a co-post.
I know that one! I love his books! But we already have a copost going... :D