Tuesday, January 25, 2011

How had I not seen this one before?

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
(Heinrich Heine)

A wonderfully succinct summation of my view of life (unfortunately I achieve none of the above).

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Is This Where I’m Going Wrong…

Trying to have both?

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
(W. Somerset Maugham)

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
(Isaac Asimov)

Friday, June 4, 2010

Another Truism

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
(Lord Peter Wimsey in Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Re: Lists of Hopes/Plans

Excellent list. My only "helpful" suggestion for the moment is: don't do them all at the same time, it could get messy (and illegal).
(Mark Crabtree in response to a blog post by tastelikedeath)

This quotation comes from my brother about a list I had made of different/new things that I would like to try. It tickled my fancy and I think would probably apply to a good many lists in the world.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Tribute to part-time poets

Even minor poetry has its uses.
(Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night)

This quotation from my favourite author made me so excited, I nearly burst. It's pathetic really, but I take my little victories where I can get them.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Nurture

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
(Demetri Martin)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

A nice Sentiment

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
(Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco)

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Heh...

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
(George Bernhard Shaw)

Saturday, November 22, 2008

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
(Bertrand Russell)

Friday, October 24, 2008

Provocative...

It’s stretched my limits to the max
and they’ve snapped like a rubber band.
(MWD Lewis)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Was ever a truer statement made?

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
(Douglas Adams)

Sunday, October 5, 2008

One can only Hope

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
(Brittany Murphy)

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Fake Education?

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
(Winston Churchill)

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Optimistic view of Pessimism

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
(George F. Will)

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Memory Aids

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
(Beryl Pfizer)

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Truth?

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

A gem from the news quiz

Is the collective term for a lot of political diaries called diarrhoea?
(Paraphrased from Jeremy Hardy)

Monday, May 19, 2008

Welcome

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
(Homer, The Odyssey).

So, if you're here of your own valition; welcome, if you'd rather be somewhere else; bugger off already.