A Quote Every Now & Again Is Rather Refreshing For Our Souls.

Don't you agree that the little things make the most impact?

Quotations really need no introduction. Through pure chance I stumbled across this book of them on our bookshelf. Neither Bob or I bought it, so it must have been a well meant present from someone who came to stay...Thank you to whoever it was.

" Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. "
George Eliot Silas Marner 1861

" Be silent, unless what you have to say is better than silence."
Salvator Rosa motto on self-portrait about 1645

" Better by far you should forget and smile /
Than you should remember and be sad. "
Christina Rossetti' Remember ' 1862

" To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. "
Sallust 34 BC Bellum Catitinae

" An open foe may prove a curse, /
But a pretended friend is worse."
John Gay ( 1685-1732 ) The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf

" Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin /
They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. "
Siegfried Sassoon ' Dreamers ' 1918

" I am not interested in what anybody else thinks.
My mind is not a bed to be made and remade."
James Agate ( 1847-1947 ) Ego 6

" What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful."
Sappho Fragments

I hope you've enjoyed these, or at least one or two...

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