Random Quotes
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Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
I do begin to have bloody thoughts.William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1
I would fain die a dry death.William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 1
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 2
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.
(O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - verse 8
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.George Herbert
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34