Is the Spring Coming?

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” 

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

The World is Full of Obvious Things

“The world is full of obvious things 

which nobody by any chance ever observes.” 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

After All

Happy 5th Anniversary to this Blog!  :)

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” 

~ Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

If He Loved

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being,

 he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” 

~ Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

The World is A Book

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 

~ Augustine of Hippo

Classic'

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.” 

~ Mark Twain

The Person, Be It Gentleman or Lady

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, 

who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” 

~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

To Give Real Service

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought 

or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

~ Douglas Adams

A Life Spent

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, 

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Big Thinking

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

~ Wilferd Arlan Patterson

The Greatest Sweetener

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. T

o raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, 

is a secret which but few discover.

~ Joseph Addison

Certain Is It

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection 

so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. 

In love to our wives there is desire; 

to our sons, ambition; 

but to our daughters there is something 

which there are no words to express.

~ Joseph Addison

Education

Education is the best provision for old age.

~ Aristotle

A Man with a So-Called Character

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; 

he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

~ August Strindberg

A Woman's Friendship

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

~ John Gay

A Ounce of Emotion

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

~John Junor

Do Not Go Where the Path May Lead

Do not go where the path may lead, 

go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I Don't Want to Make Money

I don't want to make money. 

I just want to be wonderful.

~ Marilyn Monroe

A Good Idea

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; 

it is better than money in the bank.

~John Berry

Can There Be A Love

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

~ Confucius

A Dreamer

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, 

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

~ Oscar Wilde

Man's Second Childhood

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

~ Sir James Matthew Barrie