I can't stop myself.....
From Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well:
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.(1.i)
Such a man
Might be a copy to these younger times;
Which, followed well, would demonstrate them now
But goers backward.(1.ii)
Is it possible that he should know what he is, and be that he is?(4.ii)
(re: keeping a secret)
When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the grave of it.(4.iii)
I am wrapped in dismal thinkings.(5.iii)
From George Eliot's Adam Bede:
– Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and the deeper and the clearer it becomes. – Eddie Cantor
From Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
– varking fardwarks, sass, hoopy, frood
– "I'd far rather be happy than right, any day." – Slartibartfast
From June Lane's Reflections for Today in Kingston This Week:
– Time spent in laughing is time spent with the gods. (Japanese proverb)
– If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. (Mother Teresa)
– All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope. (Winston Churchill)
– I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all year. (Charles Dickens)
– May the most you wish for be the least you get; may the best times you've ever had be the worst you'll ever see. (Celtic blessing)
