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

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 my quotes for the day:

Try this sometime. Get a group of children in a room with a light fixture hanging just out of reach. Then watch what happens: one child will jump to touch it, and before you know, every kid will be leaping like Michael Jordan. They're testing their skill, stimulated by the challenge of reaching something beyond their normal grasp.

Put the same children in a room where everything is easily within reach and there will be no jumping, no competition, no challenge.

The problem with American education is a low ceiling of expectations. We have built schools that demand and teach too little, and the children have stopped leaping.

~Carroll Campbell


We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive is what it is all about.

~Joseph Campbell

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.