Incidentally #2
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted out spoons.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
'I don't see much in that,' said Rabbit. 'No,' said Pooh humbly. 'But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.'
—A. A. Milne
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
—C. S. Lewis
Saints are sinners that kept on going.
—Robert Lewis Stevenson
Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree
—Elizabeth Van Antrim
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
—Peter Kreeft. Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
—Josh Billings
He who every morning plans the transactions for the day and follows out a plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life… but where no plan is made… chaos will soon reign.
—Victor Hugo
As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is the woman:
Though she bends him, she obeys him;
Though she draws him, yet she follows;
Useless each without the other.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
—variously attributed
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
—Agatha Christie
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
—Louis L'Amour
It isn't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
—Mark Twain
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
—Hoosier Farmer
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
—C. S. Lewis
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
—Eric Hoffer
An empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
—William Shakespeare
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
—Letitia Landon
Wherever in this world I wander, I am in God's hands.
—Swedish proverb
What does cooking mean? It means the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and of Calypso, and of Helen, and of Rebekah, and of the Queen of Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms, and spices; and of all that is healing and sweet in fields and groves, and savory in meats. It means carefulness, and inventiveness, and watchfulness, and willingness, and readiness of appliance. It means the economy of your grandmothers, and the science of modern chemists. It means much tasting and no wasting. It means English thoroughness, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. And it means, in fine, that you are to be perfectly and always "ladies"—"loaf-givers."
—John Ruskin
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ELISSA said...
Again, what a delightful collection of quotes! I enjoyed them so much. I had never heard the last C. S. Lewis quote, but it’s great! I also loved the quote by Eric Hoffer; it’s so unfortunately true.
Thanks for the lovely post! —Elissa
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 03:07 PM
Tuesday, August 17, 2010