Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[CorbinKale]

"If you do not say something in an irritating way you might as well not say it at all, for people will not trouble themselves over something which does not trouble them." -- George Bernard Shaw

[Kim L.]

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

--Maria Montessori.

[bluespider]

"Girls may be seduced by fairy tales and promises of luxury and adoration; but in the end marriage is about killing spiders every day of your life."

I hope just no blue ones!!!

[Tery]

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

[Haunted]

"And you can tell people better how terrrible sin is if you know from your own personal experience."


The cab driver to Hazel Motes. Flannery O'Connor

[Starchild]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

I was researching J. S. Bach over the weekend and I came across a couple of good ones -

On playing the organ -
'There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right notes at the right times and the instrument plays itself'.

On music -
'An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissable delights of the soul'.

An interesting life too -

Johann Sebastian Bach

Long days and pleasant nights

[JackTheRipper]

"Horror has a face. And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared."
Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
Apocalypse Now

[Haunted]

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.

Thomas Jefferson

[CorbinKale]

There is always a way. You may fail, but it will be because you did not find the way. - Me, teaching my son to strive for his goals. I almost called him Grasshopper.