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Saturday, October 7, 2006

A World of Words...

As long as I can remember I have loved words. I read early and often as a child spending hours devouring book after book. Soaking up the english language and mulling it over. By the time I hit high school I was signing myself up for advanced english classes and reading Shakespeare just because I loved the witty dialogues. I love the T.V. show Gilmore Girls so much because of the fast paced verbal banter and plethera of quotes they use as a part of their everyday communication. I thought I would post some of my favorite quotes I have gathered over the years for you to ponder.

First some funnies:

This makes sense. This over here; this does not make sense. That's why I called it Algebra...

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing...

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -Charlie Brown

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? -Jean Kerr

I child-proofed my home and they still get in...

And now, something to think about:

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. -Emerson
Blessed are those whose attitudes are shaped by their hopes, not their hurts...

The years teach much which the days never knew. -Emerson

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. -Shakespeare

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

A little boy is the only thing God can use to make a man...

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Robert Frost

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -Peter Ustinov

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place. -Calvin Trillin

Marriage- may there be such a oneness between you that when one weeps, the other one will taste salt...

Laughter has no foreign accent...

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. -Robinson Jeffers

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you. -Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. -King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child! -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Lear", Act 1 scene 4

and one of my newest favorites:

Aerodynamically the bumble bee should not be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. -Mary Kay Ash

Well? What do you think?.......