Nice one, hyperinsomnia:thumbs_up I have another quote from Hamlet
I may be bounded in a nutshell, but I consider myself king of infinite space- Hamlet
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Nice one, hyperinsomnia:thumbs_up I have another quote from Hamlet
I may be bounded in a nutshell, but I consider myself king of infinite space- Hamlet
That one's quite good!
I was torn between that and
"... I love thee best, O most best!"
For some reason it appeals to me and i'm often shouting it at people for no reason. I also enjoy:
"Your noble son is mad!"
and of course:
"...he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pitty; And pitty 'tis 'tis true..."
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
-Eeyore.
Poetry, like all art, is a gesture towards the immortal. - A Writer Friend
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby
"The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world."
I like this, so beautiful.
“This recommendation of steadiness and uniformity does not proceed from an opinion, that particular combinations of letters have much influence on human happiness; or that truth may not be successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous: I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”
—[from Samuel Johnson's Preface to his A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)]
Beautiful, stays in my head definitely!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by della
I second the sentiment of this being a keeper! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by della
Who said that?Quote:
Originally Posted by della
'Lunatics, idiots, deaf and dumb'
Bournemouth reviewing law from 1766 on who cannot stand for election.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm
I see it in the first page of this thread,by Admin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Admin
Heaven for climate, hell for the company
-mark twain
ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig)
-john steinbeck
" Man is a mystery if you spend your life trying to puzzle it out , then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man"
said in the brothers karamazov that dostoevsky as an 18 year old wrote these words to his brother.
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Originally Posted by JaneB
Is there any specific place that Mark Twain said that first one about? Just curious. I'm a very distant cousin of his. I have never come across that quote of his before. Some places from my own life come to mind though...;)