Favorite Quotes

[Curubethion]

I'd like to know, what are some of your favorite quotes in the literature world?

"Thou wast not bold!-Thou wast not true!" ~Pearl, from The Scarlet Letter

I've got a few others...I'll have to think about it...

[Mercutio]

It's not my favorite as in spiffy or nifty or cool, but one of my favorite quotes is "the horror, the horror."

You ask why? Because it sums up one of the best books in English, Heart of Darkness which in turn sums up humanity. I don't know...I just thought H o D was brilliant. And saddening :(, as Conrad doesn't have an answer to "the horror, the horror" like Dostoevesky and others did--redemption through Christ (Christianity) :).

I'm thinking of others...how about something from Jane Austen like "Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint," or "you are endeavoring to disarm me by reason."

Or from Lord Peter, "How fleeting are all human passions
compared with the massive continuity of ducks."

[Beren3000]

My current favorite quote is from a poem by John Keats:

"Can death be sleep when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?"

[Jabberwock]

I think one of my favorite quotes of all time comes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It goes like this:

`I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; `and the moral of that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'

That's nonsense on a mind-boggling scale people.

A close second is Cheech Marin saying
"Responsibility is a heavy responsibility."

[ringbearer]

"He knew everything about literature, except how to enjoy it."

from Catch 22

[MangoPi]

lol that last one was great. My fave comes from (what else?) the Bard hisself -- Shakespeare:

"Do you know sir, that I am the greatest man living? I am the bold thunder!"

You should always introduce yourself with a bit of flair, you know? Helps people remember you.

[Serenoli]

I have one; not very striking, but at the time I liked it very much, and I still think its very true:

"... all human wisdom is summed up in the following words: Wait and hope" -Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo.

And here's a quote I keep coming across in P.G. Wodehouse, but its really by some poet, Keats or one of those guys whose names I never remember:

"The year's at the Spring, the day's at the morn,
Morning's at seven, the hill-side's dew-pearled,
The lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn,
God's in his heaven, all's right with the world"

Its conjures up such a very neat, perfect image of happiness... :)

[hectorberlioz]

lol that last one was great. My fave comes from (what else?) the Bard hisself -- Shakespeare:

"Do you know sir, that I am the greatest man living? I am the bold thunder!"

You should always introduce yourself with a bit of flair, you know? Helps people remember you.

That reminds me of non-fiction quote:

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
~Beethoven

[sun-star]

This is a quote from the fantastic Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon" (inspiration for the death of Theoden in LOTR):

Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre,
mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað.

It means (roughly):

Our resolve must be firmer, hearts must be braver,
spirits must be greater as our strength diminishes.

[littleadanel]

I have one; not very striking, but at the time I liked it very much, and I still think its very true:

"... all human wisdom is summed up in the following words: Wait and hope" -Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo.

I loved that part too, when I read that book :) Goodness, it was years ago. Maybe it's time for a re-read... after I've finished all the C. S. Lewis books of the library ;)

One of my recent favourites (actually planning to squeeze it into my sig somehow):

"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb." -- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose.

[Falagar]

Eco! :)

"There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics."

"The true initiate is he who knows that the most powerful secret is a secret without content, because no enemy will be able to make him confess it, no rival devotee will be able to take it from him."
-Foucault's Pendulum

Got to reread Dumas myself as well, used to be one of mye favorites.

[Serenoli]

Hey, the Eco quote is good!

Falagar, whats a cretin? I hope I'm not a fool, a moron or a lunatic, so I'm pinning all my hopes on the cretin. ;) :p

Here's one from Trollope:

"It is good to be merry and wise,
It is good to be honest and true,
It is good to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new."

[Falagar]

Ehm. Hope you didn't get your hopes too high, cretin = idiot. But Belbo (the speaker) did add another group ("us")...and wasn't entirely sober. ;)

Other quotes
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
- The Name of the Rose

I started to write it [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
- Some interview

[Merenwen Vardamir]

One of my favorites is from King Kong- which is technically a movie, so I'm sorry. It's "And lo, the beast beheld the face of beauty, and beauty stayed his hand. And from that day on, he was as one dead." I think I like it because it goes along with my 'love ruins lives' theory. lol.

[littleadanel]

Eco! :)

Yeees. :) I read all of his books I found on my parents' shelf. I loved Foucault's Pendulum! And Baudolino. And The Name of the Rose. And The Island of the Day Before... I think the Pendulum is my favourite so far. ;)

'Tis great that you've posted some more Eco quotes; I don't have any of his books in English, so I can't really show my favourites here... I was determined to get that one about the books, though - I was facinated by it when I read it, and wanted to share. So I ended up in a bookstore, scribbling it out to a piece of paper (my first idea was to borrow the book from the library, but they didn't have it in English).

And I love that part of the interview too! :D

[Falagar]

My father has a beautiful copy of The Name of the Rose in english, was that one (and...ehm...a girl, really ;)) which turned me on Eco. Never got the girl (still friends :rolleyes: ) but fell in love with Eco, and proceeded to read Foucault's, Baudolino, How To Travel With A Salmon, and now recently, after a long Eco-free pause, started reading The Search for the Perfect Language. Great guy. :)

The Pendulum is probably my favorite as well, great piece of art (his "opus magnum", isn't that what they call it?). The sheer complexityof the Plan, all the historical facts and "facts", all the layers of meaning...and of course Templar Knights. ;) Actually rereading both it and The Name of the Rose now, slowly, trying to decipher everything. Impossible.

Oh, yeah. Quotes.

Probably only meaningsful and/or good if you've read the book, but anyways:
Then he turned away from them to the man lying on the ground and he sank to his knees beside him as the sun went down.
Soon after that the clouds began rolling in from the west, blanketing the sky.
No sun, no moon, no stars over Al-Rassan

Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.

[Pytt]

My father has a beautiful copy of The Name of the Rose in english, was that one (and...ehm...a girl, really ;)) which turned me on Eco. Never got the girl (still friends :rolleyes: ) but fell in love with Eco, and proceeded to read Foucault's, Baudolino, How To Travel With A Salmon, and now recently, after a long Eco-free pause, started reading The Search for the Perfect Language. Great guy. :)

The Pendulum is probably my favorite as well, great piece of art (his "opus magnum", isn't that what they call it?). The sheer complexityof the Plan, all the historical facts and "facts", all the layers of meaning...and of course Templar Knights. ;) Actually rereading both it and The Name of the Rose now, slowly, trying to decipher everything. Impossible.


And you turned me on Eco. The girl mentioned helped abit too, if I am not mistaken. You should read The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. You should read it. I think it is my second favourite book of him, with Pendulum on top. I think I have to reread the Pendulum. It all gets mixed up a bit.

Quotes will come another time!

[sun-star]

P.G. Wodehouse:

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

[Mercutio]

That's great sun-star :D

[Lotesse]

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~ Mark Twain

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine. ~ Mary Shelley

" . . . a belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." ~ Joseph Conrad

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

[Farimir Captain of Gondor]

It maybe way over used and completely commercialized but its one that gave me goose bumps the first time i heard it, not when i read it. I know this is a "book quote" thread but it just had a different effect when i heard it out loud.

"To be or not to be, that is the question. whether its nobler in the mind to suffer the sling and arrows of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them."

I know i didnt format it the way shakespeare did but I think it reads the same. ;)

[Lotesse]

Shahespeare can NEVER be over-commercialised! Hamlet - or any Shakespeare, for that matter, is the bomb, and all his plays are rife with priceless and timeless quotations still very much in use to this day. The famous Hamlet "To be or not to be" monologue never, ever goes out of style. It gives me goosebumps, too.

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

[Serenoli]

I like especially the bit -

"And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry."

I think I like it more considering how much Jeeves quotes it! :D

[Rían]

oh, how interesting - I just logged on to start a thread on favorite book quotes, and someone else beat me to it!

Well, I'm enjoying those I'm reading - keep 'em coming!

I love E. Nesbit's fairy stores - they're clever and very, very funny!

I've always liked this little phrase from "The Charmed Life" - the king was trying to kill the prince with the charmed life (who was disguised as a lift-man (non-Brits: elevator attendant) to win the heart of the princess) but it never worked because of the charmed life. And the prince's parents (another king and queen) found out about it in the paper thusly:

"Because the King had read in his newpaper, and the Queen in hers, that the Lift-man was being executed every morning from nine to twelve ..." :D

[Rían]

Just a fragment of a quote, but I always loved "Hektor, tamer of horses" from the Iliad...


edit: And I liked this description of the main character starting to think for herself, from a book by George MacDonald:

"Now thinking, especially to one who tries it for the first time, is seldom a comfortable operation, and hence Helen was very close to becoming actually uncomfortable. ... Helen had supposed she could think because the thoughts of other people had passed through her quite regularly, leaving many a phantom conclusion behind. But this had been their thinking, not hers."
~ The Curate of Glaston, by George MacDonald

[Rían]

The first two lines of Austen's Pride and Prejudice are just brilliant:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.


edit - grrr, I was going to add a line from Northanger Abbey but it's missing! :mad: Now who did I loan it to ....

[Lotesse]

nice quotes, Rian, La Triple-Postie Reina! That's gonna be my new nickname for you. :D ;)

Speaking of love quotes from literature-

"Then must you strive to be worthy of her love. Be brave and pure, fearless to the strong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosper or no, you will have fitted yourself to be honored by a maiden's love, which is, in sooth, the highest guerdon which a true knight can hope for."

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from The White Company

[Rían]

well, at least the 3 posts were made over a few days this time :o I want to keep the thread going!

I've always liked this from Kipling's The Jungle Books (Mowgli had done something that he wasn't supposed to do, and Bagheera and Baloo had to fight to get him back) :

"...Mowgli, hast thou anything to say?"

"Nothing. I did wrong. Baloo and thou art wounded. It is just."

Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther's point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid. When it was all over Mowgli sneezed, and picked himself up without a word.

"Now," said Bagheera, "jump on my back, Little Brother, and we will go home."

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterwards.

[Lotesse]

That's a really sweet one! I loved that. I have got to read that book; I'm only just used to the little movies. Kipling is awesome.

I'll help you keep the threqad here alive, Rian; I always love these quote-exchanges.

Here's one from Shakespeare's Othello:



"Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed."

[Lotesse]

This one's a good one. It sounds like it would make a good title:

"And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!"

Mark Twain, from The Prince and the Pauper

Doesn't that sound like a cool title, though? Knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows... hmmm, I like that. I love my current title too much to change it though.

[Rían]

yes, that has a very nice sound!

[The last sane person]

I am thinking of changing mine. Since it seems that I have fallen out with my father and am no longer an Iranian...I've read Prince and the Pauper, but I dont remember that line...

[Lotesse]

How fortuitious! I think that's the right word... :confused: Anyway, what I mean is I thought of you when I thought of the title like that. Because I think of you as a knight, like Raendil & Captain Shah, plus the shadows & dreams thing reminded me of you too, for some reason.

[Rían]

That's a really sweet one! I loved that. I have got to read that book; I'm only just used to the little movies. Kipling is awesome. The books are great, IMO - not at all like the Disney move. There are about 5 stories or so, can't remember exactly, hence the plural in the title (The Jungle Books).

There's a line I love in his Just So Stories but again, I can't find the book right now! :mad:

I love Wilkie Collins's books The Moonstone and The Woman in White. I love Betteredge's description of his marriage:

We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

After five years of misunderstandings on the stairs, it pleased an all-wise Providence to relieve us of each other by taking my wife.

Funny! He is my favorite Collins character.

(ps - sorry to hear about your father, Sane:( )

[Serenoli]

LOL, I love Betteredge, and his Robinson Crusoe! And that quote is so funny!! :D I have only read the two Wilkie Collins books you mentioned... loved them both!

[Farimir Captain of Gondor]

This one's a good one. It sounds like it would make a good title:

"And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!"

Mark Twain, from The Prince and the Pauper

Doesn't that sound like a cool title, though? Knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows... hmmm, I like that. I love my current title too much to change it though.

*sneaks in and snags Tessa's Knight title*
*looks left to right*
*runs away*


:evil:

[Lady Marion Magdalena]

I love Betteredge, and his Robinson Crusoe

Isn't Robinson Crusoe one of Defoe's characters? :confused:

[Rían]

In Collin's book, The Moonstone, Betteredge loves Robinson Crusoe and keeps thinking it predicts things - very funny!

[sun-star]

I read this recently and liked it - don't know where it's from, but it's by W.H. Auden:

"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."

[Rían]

hmmm, interesting!

I've heard of him but never read him ...

[littleadanel]

My most recent favourite (apologies for the length...), from one of I. B. Singer's short stories, The Spinoza of Market Street:

Dr. Fischelson looked up at the sky. The black arch was thickly sown with stars - there were green, red, yellow, blue stars; there were large ones and small ones, winking and steady ones. There were those that were clustered in dense groups and those that were alone. In the higher sphere, apparently, litle notice was taken of the fact that a certain Dr. Fischelson had in his declining days married someone called Black Dobbe. Seen from above even the Great War was nothing but a temporary play of the modes. The myriads of fixed stars continued to travel their destined courses in unbounded space. The comets, planets, satellites, asteroids kept circling these shining centers. Worlds were born and died in cosmic upheavals. In the chaos of nebulae, primeval matter was being formed. Now and again a star tore loose, and swept across the sky, leaving behind it a fiery streak. It was the month of August when there are showers of meteors. Yes, the divine substance was extended and had neither beginning nor end; it was absolute, indivisable, eternal, without duration, infinite in its attributes. Its waves and bubbles danced in the universal cauldron, seething with change, following the unbroken chain of causes and effects, and he, Dr. Fischelson, with his unavoidable fate, was part of this. The doctor closed his eyelids and allowed the breeze to cool the sweat on his forehead and stir the hair of his beard. He breathed deeply of the midnight air, supported his shaky hands on the windowsill and murmured, "Divine Spinoza, forgive me. I have become a fool."

[Curubethion]

Here's one from Huck Finn, when Huck has just decided that he won't turn Jim the runaway slave in to the authorities.

"All right, then...I'll go to hell!"

It's really cool because we all know that the opposite is actually true...and it shows his dedication and transformation as a person.

[Bombadillo]

Hey, I just started rereading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, because they're so full of good quotes. There was always something that would make me laugh out loud. :)

Lotesse, I can't stand Victorian English, but I just finished Hamlet for the first time and it was a great story even despite that.

Now what I came here to say:
"Atticus Finch is the same man in his house as he is on the public streets." I think Miss Maudie said that, in To Kill a Mockingbird. Not an impressive or powerful quote, but just the way it presents the importance of sincerity was something I never encountered before when I first read it, and it's been a big influence. I also started rereading that, so for the first time I'm on three books at once. We'll see how this goes. :p

[GreyMouser]

Lotesse, I can't stand Victorian English, but I just finished Hamlet for the first time and it was a great story even despite that.



Wrong Queen ;)

[GreyMouser]

Response from Eco to an interviewer:

Q: Why did you choose the title "The Name of the Rose"?

Eco: Because "Pinocchio" was taken.

[Acalewia]

lol Mousy. (you don't mind me calling you that, do you?)

Here's a couple of quotes I like:

"'My death will be as nothing to them. It will be as a stone thrown into the Nile in the time of inundation! Do the waters stop for a stone? The plans are made, Hatshepsut, and the hour is near. You will know your enemies when they strike'" Sheftu, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out! Out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing" MacBeth, Act V, Scene V lines 19-28

[littleadanel]

Response from Eco to an interviewer:

Q: Why did you choose the title "The Name of the Rose"?

Eco: Because "Pinocchio" was taken.

I love that one! :D And the one about poisoning a monk, posted by Falagar earlier, IIRC.

[Elanor's Angel]

just a very few of my faves are in my sig... I don't have my hobbit book so I cant remember what page the "Struck by Lightning! Struck by Lightning!" one by bilbo is. (I think) I'm pritty shure it what durring his first evening with the dwarves.

[klatukatt]

"Don't get mad, get sadistic."
~ Cryptosporidium, Destroy All Humans

[Elanor's Angel]

Stress: A condition brought on by over-riding the desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it...

[Curubethion]

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out! Out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing" MacBeth, Act V, Scene V lines 19-28
Ooh, yeah, that's a real good one! I've actually memorized it! I love the way it's so utterly despairing and hopeless, and if you read it in the context of "The Scottish Play" ;), it's really a powerful statement as to Macbeth's mental state, etc.

[trolls' bane]

"Nothing can happen more often than always."--Lisa Randall, author of Warped Passages.

[sun-star]

This is one of my absolute favourites, the last line of Middlemarch by George Eliot:

The growing good of the world is mainly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not as ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and now rest in unvisited graves.

[klatukatt]

"Crawling in my skin,
paranoia creeping in..."
~Me, Just Now

[GrayMouser]

This is one of my absolute favourites, the last line of Middlemarch by George Eliot:

The growing good of the world is mainly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not as ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and now rest in unvisited graves.

One of my absolute favourite books

[hectorberlioz]

I thought it looked a big change, judging from the page count...from Silas Marner:p

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Looks like I haven't posted this one yet, so here goes:

"There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
-Oscar Wilde, through, among others, Lord Henry Wotton.

When asked if he had adored Bosie during his trials:
"I never render adoration to anyone but myself."

"I myself prefer a man who lacks money to money that lacks a man."
-Themistocles, as quoted by Cicero.

"The mass of people, who are never quite right, are never quite wrong."
- C. S. Lewis

[Lotesse]

"Don't get mad, get sadistic."
~ Cryptosporidium, Destroy All Humans
This - is the bomb! Hell yeah. :cool: Love it.

[Curubethion]

And I now have the entire "To be, or not to be" soliloquy stuck in my head, due to a school assignment... :eek:

[trolls' bane]

And I now have the entire "To be, or not to be" soliloquy stuck in my head, due to a school assignment... :eek:
Oh Neutrino, neutrino!
Wherefore art thou, Neutrino?
Deny thy proton and refuse thy rest mass!

[hectorberlioz]

"Cows may be purely economical, in the sense that we cannot see that they do much beyond grazing and seeking better grazing grounds. And that is why a History of Cows in twelve volumes would not make for very lively reading."
~ GK Chesterton

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."
~Hector Berlioz

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
~C. S. Lewis

[Lotesse]

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions ~ Edgar Cayce

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~ Carl Jung

[Lotesse]

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.


Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.


One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.


To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.


Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.


~ James A. Baldwin

I'm studying Baldwin's essays in my English class right now, and - wow. What a genius.

[tolkienfan]

Stress: A condition brought on by over-riding the desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it...LOL!

"One foot nearer, and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that courtyard ere it become the victim of thy brutality!"(Rebecca) -Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (very good book btw!)

[klatukatt]

I finally found out where this quote came from!

"Rumors of my death are greatly exagerated!"
~Mark Twain

[hectorberlioz]

Another great Twain one is:

"If you do not read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are MISinformed.":D

[klatukatt]

That one is great.

I like the one my fiance said to me one day when I was being very annoying:

"I'm going to hit you with something heavy and blunt... like a truck."

[D.Sullivan]

Here are some of my favorites.

"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."

Emerson

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"
Gandhi

"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong."
Voltaire

And finally...
"A witty saying proves nothing." :p
Voltaire

[Lotesse]

Very cool! Great quotes, Sullivan, hell yeah - I love Voltaire... And hey, WELCOME, you! Welcome to ol' Entmoot, newbie! This is your second post here? Benvenuto, bello; hope I get to see more interesting postlets from you again soon around here- :) :)

[D.Sullivan]

Very cool! Great quotes, Sullivan, hell yeah - I love Voltaire... And hey, WELCOME, you! Welcome to ol' Entmoot, newbie! This is your second post here? Benvenuto, bello; hope I get to see more interesting postlets from you again soon around here- :) :)

Thanks, Lotesse! I'm glad to be here. Isn't Voltaire cool? I've got another good quote from him. This one, from his death bed, is surprisingly funny. It was in responce to a priest trying to convince him to renounce Satan before his death :p

"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
Voltaire