Quote It! Saturday

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

In the meantime, 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!


God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
~Christina of Sweden

Think freely. Smile often
Rediscover old friends. Make new ones.
Tell those you love them that you do.
Dream. Hope. Grow. Give. Give in.
Pick some daisies. Share them.
Sing. Dance. Reach out. Let someone in.
Hug a child. Kiss.
Slow down. Hold a hand.
See a sunrise. Listen to a the rain.
Trust life. Share faith. Enjoy.
Make some mistakes. Learn from them.
Love everyone. Explore the unknown.
Celebrate life and love.
~from a Christmas card

To varnish nonsense with the charms of sound.
~Winston Churchill

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
~Winston Churchill

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way to be happy.
~Jennie Jerome Churchill

From end to end of Thy creation,
There is no break in continuity, no more than between body and soul.
~Paul Cladel

Gossip needn't be false to be evil--there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
~Frank A. Clark

Quote It! Saturday

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

In the meantime, 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!

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
~G. K. Chesterton

It is always the secure who are humble.
~Chesterton

The truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefor congenial to it.
~Chesterton

You don't have to pray loudly; just direct your heart to heaven.
~Rabbi Chia

We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn from the past.
~Mme. Chiang Kai-shek

It's every American's duty to support his government, but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.
~Thomas Chifford

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~Chinese proverb

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
~Chinese proverb

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. At least it's supposed to be...Having once again missed posting for an entire week, I'm going to post enough quotes today to make up for it.

But, in the meantime, 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!

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.

—Lewis Carroll

It is easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

—Sébastian Roch Nicholas Chamfort

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up the roof.

—Chang Ch’ao

Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.

—George Chapman

People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. It is only when we become conscious of the flow of time that the consequences of action—whether it is taking drugs or dropping out of school—become a consideration. It is only when we have perspective on our lives that motives besides immediate gratification can come into play.

—Lynne V Cheney

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want [need] it the most always like it the least.

—Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and a shelter for us in advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

—Lord Chesterfield

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--How did I do it before?

But, in the meantime, 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've got a mixed bag today....a little bit funny and a little bit serious:

Campbell’s Law: A sinner can reform, but stupid is forever.

—Lt. Colonel William P Campbell III

Losing a loved one, uncertainty about what we are—these are deprivations that give rise to our worst sufferings. We may be idealists, but we need what is tangible. It is by the presence of persons and things that we believe that we recognize certainty.

But does it truly matter what we lack when what we have is not used up? So many things are susceptible of being loved that surely no discouragement can be final. To know how to suffer, to know how to love, and, when everything collapses, to take everything up once more, simply the richer from suffering, almost happy from the awareness of our misery.

—Albert Camus

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world where children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

—Camus [This was one of Robert F Kennedy's favorite quotations.]

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

—Thomas Carlyle

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates, I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

—Dale Carnegie