Quotations

Jul. 1st, 2008 11:18 pm
cinaed: This fic was supposed to be short (No Good Reason to Act Her Age (Vala))
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I found a cool Quotations book in my room and was reading some of them to Lily.

"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice." - Abbe D'Allainval

"O Death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling,
O Grave, thy victoree?
The bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
For you but not for me." -Anonymous, a song popular for the British Army in WWI

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." -Francis Bacon

"Philaster: Oh, but thou dost not know
What 'tis to die.
Bellario: Yes, I do know, my Lord:
'Tis less than to be born; a last sleeping;
A quiet resting from all jealousy,
A thing we pursue; I know besides,
It is but giving over of a game,
That must be lost." -from Philaster by Francis Beaumont

"I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so." -Sydney Smith

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'" -Hilaire Belloc

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it." -C.P. Scott

Adopt one today! (Clicking helps the dragon egg grow. *grin*)
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