Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Becks19]

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
- Monica Baldwin

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
- Winston Churchill

[blunthead]

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

[Haunted]

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
~Carl Jung

[Becks19]

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.
- Pope Leo X

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[blunthead]

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

[Walter Oobleck]

Reverend is not a title. It is an adjective set before a proper name--and perhaps not even one all that proper.
--Alexander Theroux, Three Wogs, a novel, the quote is a kind of preface to "The Wife of God," one of three chapters/stories within.

[Haunted]

"We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance."
~Benjamin Disraeli

[blunthead]

Do not judge by appearances. A rich heart may be under a poor coat. - Scottish proverb

[Becks19]

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings.
- William Shakespeare

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
- Thomas a Kempis

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
- Joseph Addison

[blunthead]

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. - Cullen Hightower