Quote of the Day Feb 27

...Willie is a pagan diety worshipped by turf accountants everywhere. Willie comes to the races almost daily and has a faculty for choosing the loser, which given he knows nothing about horses, is remarkable.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde & a Death of No Importance (p. 151)

--Gyles Brandreth

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Catch-up quotes (I'm behind again):

Tuesday:

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time--build your wings on the way down.

--Ray Bradbury

Wednesday:

The world has achieved brillance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

--General Omar Bradley

Thursday:

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

"Not Knowing"

--Mary Gardiner Brainard

Friday:

No one can really pull you up very high--you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

--Louis Brandeis

Saturday:

In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter's eye and those who don't.

Oscar Wilde & a Death of No Importance (p. 6)

--Gyles Brandreth

Quote of the Day Feb 21

Strange man, I thought on the way back, Not sexless, because he was leanly handsome enough, H-D, and sure of himself too. Very sure. Too uncompromising, really--perhaps that was it. Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.

Any Human Heart (p. 25)

by William Boyd

Quote of the Day Feb 20

The work of healing is in peeling away the barriers of fear and past conditioning that keeps us unaware of our true nature of wholeness and love.

Minding the Body, Mending the Mind (intro)

by Joan Borysenko

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Catch-up quote from Friday:

I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life, there is one that matters most. It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail and it is good to see.

Dances with Wolves (screenplay)

by Michael Blake

Saturday's Quote:

He was the sort of person who makes you supremely interesting to yourself--only a great man can do that, or your lover....

Georgia Cavendish

Thou Shell of Death (p. 134)

by Nicholas Blake

Quote of the Day Feb 17

Not much escapes my eyes and ears and nothing escapes my memory, although I may mislay it for a while.

Adelaide Adams

Murder a la Richelieu

by Anita Blackmon

Quotes of the Days: Feb 15 & 16

Tuesday's Quote:

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive out the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even wil lhave none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps afraid of the night? Do they fear that fast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

The Outermost House

by Henry Beston

Wednesday's Quote:

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

"That's the Spirit"

by Frank Bianco

Quotes for Valetine's Day

Some favorites from that old standby, Anonymous:

I ran up the door,
Opened the stairs,
Said my pajamas,
And put on my prayers.
Turned off my bed,
Tumbled into my light,
And all because you kissed me good night!

Anonymous

Although I conquer all the earth,
Yet for me there is only one city.
In that city there is for me only one house;
And in that house, one room only;
And in that room, a bed.
And one woman sleeps there,
The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom.

"Although I Conquer All the Earth"
Anonymous Ancient India


Her love awaits me on the distant shore.
The river flows between us,
crocodiles on the sandbars.

Yet I plunge into the river,
my heart slicing currents, steady
as if I were walking.

Only love it is love
that gives me strength and courage
love that fords the river.

Anonymous Egyptian (15-105h C)

Quote of the Day Feb 13

Prelude to Valentine's Day

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where
I love you simply, without problems or pride;
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving.

from "Sonnet XVII"
by Pablo Neruda

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To participate, hop on over to Freda's place and join in!

Here I am again playing catch-up for the week:

Tuesday's Quote:

I'm anxious about my friend Puffin. Not at all up to the mark. Most depressed. I told him he had no business to be depressed. It's selfish to be depressed, I said. If we were all depressed it would be a dreary world, Miss Elizabeth.

Major Flint

Miss Mapp (p 225)

E. F. Benson

Wednesday's Quote:

...we are all deluded about ourselves. And we define ourselves in terms of what we fondly imagine is our most impressive feature.

Stephen Pile (in the intro to)

Paying Guests

by E. F. Benson

Thursday's Quote:

Miss Howard...suffered from the essentially middle-age disease of fabrication, and whether she looked at her physical image in the tall looking-glass in her bedroom, or contemplated herself in the mirror of her mind, she now saw what she had got to beleive about herself.

Paying Guests (p 22)

E. F. Benson

Friday's Quote:

Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired you become. But your view becomes much more extensive.

by Ingmar Bergman

Saturday's Quote:

You have to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

by Yogi Berra

Quote of the Day Feb 7

It is no use denying that the Cosmic Consciousness of the ladies of Tilling was aware of the a disagreeable anticlimax to so many hopes and fears. It had, of course, hoped for the best, but it had not expected the best would be quite as bad as this.

Miss Mapp (p. 117)

by E. F. Benson

Quote of the Day Feb 6

It was five minutes before anything approaching order was restored to the line of children, who, like molecules, seemed to to tak up more space when they were agitated.

An Embarrassment of Corpses (p. 145)

by Alan Beechey

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To participate, hop on over to Freda's place and join in!

It's a good thing we can post as many as we like. Because I need to play catch-up for this week. You wouldn't think it would be that difficult to put up one quote a day....So, here we go--

Tuesday's Quote:

My body is there, he thought...all buried and forgotten. All the little pettinesses washed away. I feel clean and light and pure. He thought about book-hunting on Fourth Avenue and decided he felt like a smashed light bulb.

A Fine & Private Place

by Peter S. Beagle

[I totally understand about the book-hunting!]

Wednesday's Quote:

Death is something that has to be learned. Just like life, only you don't have to learn so fast because you have more time.

A Fine & Private Place

by Peter S. Beagle

Thursday's Quote:

Death is a lot like life in a lot of ways. The power to see clearly doesn't change people. The wise in life sometimes become wiser in death. The petty remain petty. The dead change their addresses, you see, not their souls.

A Fine & Private Place

by Peter S Beagle

Friday's Quote:

...hope in the heart of man lives on lean pasture.

Tristan & Iseult

by Joseph Bedier

Saturday's Quote:

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

by Henry Ward Beecher