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!
I am still running behind on my usual posting. I'm hoping to get back on track soon. Meanwhile...here are quotes for last week:
Monday:
In the mind of a punter the law of probability never carried as much weight as the law of possibility.
Blood at the Bookies (p. 17)
--Simon Brett
Tuesday:
A murder's a nine-day wonder, but horse racing is forever.
Sonny Frank
Blood at the Bookies (p. 43)
--Simon Brett
Wednesday:
Brigg's Physics: If the doctor (or dentist) says that the procedure will produce a "little discomfort," it will hurt like medieval torture.
--Judge Briggs
[This is absolutely true. I have first-hand experience.]
Thursday:
It is vain to say that human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Jane Eyre
--Charlotte Bronte
Friday:
...the more you know about a thing, the less scary it is. And if you know all about it, you find it isn't anything to be scared of at all.
Freddy and the Ignoramus
--Walter R Brooks
Saturday:
For Freddy, like lots of other people, believed things more easily when he saw them in print than he did when he just heard them.
Freddy and the Ignoramus
--Walter R Brooks
