Quote It! Saturday (on Sunday)

I'm still trying to get back in the swing of my quote blog...and, being all about quotes here, I can't resist participating in Quote It! sponsored by Freda's Voice. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Since I'm behind and doing this on Sunday, Mother's Day, I thought I'd see what I have in my collection that might be appropriate....

Imagination is something that sits up with Mom and Dad the first time their teenager stays out late.

~Lane Olinghouse

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

~Tenneva Jordan

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

~Robert Brault

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness and cause peace to return to our hearts.

~Washington Irving

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

~Theodore M Hesburgh

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.

~Alvin Price

Reading Quote of the Day

I've been shamefully neglecting my quotes page. It just hasn't been on the priority list in my pre- and post-surgery world. Gonna try to get back on track. Here we go with some favorite quotes from books:


I'm beginning to think that all our greatest disasters are due to fools rather than knaves. Contemporary history certainly suggests it.

Die All, Die Merrily (p. 44)
~Leo Bruce

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream may be.

The Patriot
~Pearl S. Buck

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!

I am still running behind on my usual posting. Especially for this page. And I don't see things getting better any time soon. Eagle Scout Court of Honor to get through. Upcoming surgery. Son's graduation....Yikes! Too much to do and not enough time. So, being behind, here's just a bunch of quotes from my collection.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
The Successful Woman
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
--Charlie Brown

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.
--Gene Brown

Ever notice that the number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action?
--Gene Brown

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his deathbed, "Gee, if only I'd spent more time at the office.
Life's Little Instruction Book
--H. Jackson Brown

Miracles happen every day.
Life's Little Instruction Book (entry #43)
--H. Jackson Brown

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
Life's Little Instruction Book (entry #59)
--H. Jackson Brown

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!

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

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!

I am WAY behind this time. I've done pretty well on keeping up with my blogging on my main reading blog (even though life is totally crazy at the moment), but keeping up with the quotes just hasn't been happening.

Here' s a week's worth of quotes from one of my favorite vintage mysteries:

Sunday:

Reading aloud what one has written seems to me almost the least amiable of the practices of humanity; but it is a common passion and very dangerous to thwart. I have suffered a good deal from it in my time. But I have always tried to listen with good grace. If one is going to be martyred, one may as well do it in style.

Death Under Sail (p. 19)
--C. P. Snow

Monday:

Getting up slowly [in the morning] is the chief aim of a perfect life.

Tonia Gilmour
Death Under Sail (p. 24)
--C. P. Snow

Tuesday:

If you look at it properly, detective stories are a sign of civilization. And the investigation of crime is a sign of all the good in our modern world.

Detective Sgt. Aloysius Birrell
Death Under Sail (p. 42)
--C. P. Snow

Wednesday:

A detective sergeant wildly enthusiastic over criminal investigation was strange enough, but a detective sergeant with the susceptibility of a Victorian heroine was incredible.

Death Under Sail (p. 49)
--C. P. Snow

Thursday:

We're all word-hypnotized. Philosophers and art critics and parsons and psychologists--they're all of them "Aloysius Birrells" thinking that when they've said "tempo" they've explained the universe.

Finbow
Death Under Sail (p. 52)
--C. P. Snow

Friday:

It's curious how completely powerless almost all Englishmen are, if they're brought up against genuinely thorough rudeness. And in our absurd muddle-headed way we always estimate it as a sign of character. Dr. Johnson and the Duke of Wellington and Queen Victoria and Mr. Shaw and Mr. Snowden--we find other reasons for approving of them, but actually we're just impressed by their sheer boorishness.

Finbow
Death Under Sail (p. 59)
--C. P. Snow

Saturday:

...being successful in life depends on two gifts, and two only. One is to know where to go for anything you want to get done; the other is to be able to get it done for you.

Finbow
Death Under Sail (p. 67)
--C. P. Snow

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!

My Quotes:

Thursday:

An ounce of don't-say-it is worth a pound of didn't-mean-it.

--L. M. Boyd

Friday:

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

--Jacob M Braude

Saturday:

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

--Antonia Brenner

Quotes of the Days Feb 28, March 2 &3

Monday's Quote:

Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law and yet be worthless. He may break the law and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his own perfection.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde & a Death of No Importance (p. 261)

--Gyles Brandreth

Tuesday's Quote:

ACD: You live and learn.

OW: And then, of course, you die and forget it all.

Arthur Conan Doyle; Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde & a Game Called Murder (p. 49)

--Gyles Brandreth

Wednesday's Quote:

There's no fool like an old fool--you can't beat experience.

--Jacob M Braude