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Welcome to my quotations page. To me, the written word is the soul of mankind. There is so much more that you are able to express than with the spoken word.

You are able to put more of yourself into each phrase or thought, each word. You can say things that you would never dream of speaking aloud to anyone, even yourself. Words reflect who man really is, or who he wants to be. They say where we've been, where we are, and where we'd like to be. There is not a thought or emotion that cannot be expressed with words. Well now that I've said my piece, scroll down and enjoy what some famous people have had to say.

~I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.~ Louisa May Alcott

~It's hardly in a body's pow'r, to keep at times frae being sour.~ Robert Burns

~Hail Guest! We ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; if Stranger, such no longer be, if Foe, our love shall conquer thee.~ Arthur Guiterman

~A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.~ James Russell Lowell

~We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.~ James Boswell

~When a bit of sunshine hits ye, after passing of a cloud, when a fit of laughter gits ye an' yer spine is feelin' proud, don't forgit to up and fling it at a soul that's feelin' blue, for the minute that ye sling it, it's a boomerang to you.~ John Wallace Crawford

~There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any courses like a page of prancing poetry.~ Emily Dickinson

~Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents the posterity of those who are yet unborn.~ Joseph Addison

~The purest affection the heart can hold is the honest love of a nine-year-old.~ Holman Francis Day

~To let a friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.~ Samuel Johnson

~God's in heaven: All's right with the world.~ Robert Browning

~Imagination is as good as many voyages--and how much cheaper.~ George William Curtis

~A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

~Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of delight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.~ Joseph Addison

~For tis a truth well known to most, that whatsoever thing is lost, we seek it, ere it come to light, in every cranny but the right.~ William Cowper

~Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.~ Emma Lazarus

~Oft a little morning rain foretells a pleasant day.~ Charlotte Brontë

~Look, there's a rainbow now! See how that lovely rain bow throws her jewelled arm around this world, when the rain goes.~ William Henry Davies

~Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.~ Thomas à Kempis

~When we gloriously forget ourselves and plunge soul- forward, headlong into a book's profound, impassioned for it's beauty and salt of truth--'tis then we get the right good from a book.~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

~Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night sailed of in a wood en shoe--sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.~ Eugene Field

~For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

~Woe be to him who reads but one book.~ George Herbert

~Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.~ Francis Bacon

~The dreams of childhood--its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.~ Charles Dickens

~Muisc is well said to be the speech of angels.~ Thomas Carlyle

~The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth,--one is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.~ Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gureny

~God wove a web of loveliness, of clouds and stars and birds, but made not anything at all so beautiful as words.~ Anna Hempstead Branch

~O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head! Thomas Hood

~"The Christian ideal," it is said, "has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and left untried." Harold Begbie

~Though most be players, some must be spectators.~ Ben Jonson

~Oh, to be in England, now that April's there.~ Robert Browning

~When you break up house-keeping, you learn the extent of your treasures.~ John Hay

~Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

~When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

~You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exsits. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say. If faith o'ercomes doubt.~ Robert Browning

~Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.~ Robert Frost

~Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.~ George William Childs

~As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face--I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it's the folks out in front that I jar.~ Anthony Euwer

~There is no place more delightful than home.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

~Whatever you have, spend less.~ Samuel Johnson

~Twas a thief that said the last kind word to Christ: Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.~ Robert Browning

~The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~The most useless day of all is that in which we have not laughed.~ Sébastien R.N. Chamfort

~By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled, here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~A haze on the far horizon, the infinite, tender sky, the ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, and the wild geese sailing high--And all over upland and lowland the charm of the golden-rod, some of us call it Autumn, and others call it God.~ William Herbert Carruth

~A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis to meet an antique book, in just the dress his century wore.~ Emily Dickinson

~There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.~ Robert Browning

~There are no atheists in the foxholes.~ William Thomas Cummings

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