Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. At least it's supposed to be...I'm still trying to get back in the swing of keeping up with two blogs. 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!

I refuse as I age to deny my years. When asked at 30, I'll be 30. When the question comes up at 45, I'll take 45. For what year could I subtract? The one in which my son or daughter was born? Or the year I first fell in love? How about one less favorable? Like the year I came down with pneumonia. Or one of those grief-filled years spent saying goodbye to someone close? Maybe I could choose the seemingly insignificant. That year I saw a falling star? Or the one spent not enthralled with life, just content with it? No, I think I'll keep them all, the good, the bad, and the even not so memorable. To deny one would be to deny myself. Because added up, they are my life.

~Sheila B Cabrera

Book Quote of the Day

...Imagination took the reins and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Evelina
~Fanny Burney

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. At least it's supposed to be...I'm still trying to get back in the swing of keeping up with two blogs. 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!


Here are this week's offerings:

This first I couldn't resist, even though it doesn't quite fit in with the rest of my choices...

A dog wags its tail with its heart.
~Martin Buxbaum



And dreams in their development have breath; and tears and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts. They take a weight off our waking toils. They do divide our being.
~Lord Byron

Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
~Lord Byron

All heaven and earth are still--though not in sleep,
But breathless as we grow when feeling most;
And silent as we stand in thoughts too deep
All heaven and earth are still;
* * *
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.
~Lord Byron

Book Quotes of the Day

Did you know that academic shop is even more boring than police shop? That academics have more expensive taste in booze and they get tipsy quicker?

John Scales
Wycliffe and the Four Jacks (p. 144)
~W. J. Burley



Music to me is like sex; with the advantage that it lasts longer and they tell me you can still enjoy it in old age.

Caroline Bishop
Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin (p. 25)
~W. J. Burley







Myths can be painful when they explode in your face.

Wycliffe and the Redhead (p. 35)
~W. J. Burley

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. At least it's supposed to be...I couldn't believe that I haven't posted since May! But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in once again. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Here are my weekly offerings (all by Samuel Butler):

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless, one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.