B07 #39: Quotes
Sunday, July 29th, 2007These are some of my favourite quotes!
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them — peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on their shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you will at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. –Winston Churchill
She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain. –Louisa May Alcott
. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. –Jane Eyre
You will make all kinds of mistakes: but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. –Winston Churchill
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. –Victor Hugo
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. –Samuel Pepys
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. –Henry David Thoreau
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal isn’t neccessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. –??
I’m naming all the stars. –Drusilla
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short on: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it. –Voltaire