Favorite Quotations

I love quotations. I actually own a copy of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Here are some of my favorites from various sources. This will likely be one of several posts related to the topic.

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

“I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.” –A. A. Milne

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.” –Voltaire

“The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.” –Samuel Butler

“In the great human comedy, one day we are spectators and the next day performers.” –Garrison Keillor

“‘Pinky, are you pndering what I’m pondering?’
‘I think so, Brain. But if we get Same Spade, we’ll never have puppies.’” -Pinky and the Brain

“‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be;and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, itain’t. That’s logic.’” –Lewis Carroll

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” –François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” –Anatole France

~ by Jonathan on October 5, 2007.