QUOTE ARCHIVE
The following is a list of all the previous
quotes used on the site (in chronological order, latest first):
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful" and sitting in the shade.
(Rudyard Kipling)
Submitted by Diana Duffy, Ireland
Alice came to a fork in the road,
"Which road do I take", she asked.
"Where do you want to go? responded the cat.
"I don't know", Alice answered.
"Then" said the cat "it doesn't matter"
"Begin at the beginning, and then go on till you come to the end; then stop."
(from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible"
(James Joyce)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
'Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own'
(The Holy Bible
)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
'In crisis, there exists opportunity'
(Ancient Chinese Proverb )
Submitted by Jack Bonner Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
"A friend in need is a friend indeed"
(Old Proverb)
Submitted by Editor, Ireland
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown.
The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
(F. Schiller)
Submitted by Editor, Ireland
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes
most of which never happened.
(Michel de Montaigne: France 1533 - 1592)
Submitted by Robert Duffy, Ireland
The glory
Is not in never failing,
But in rising every time
You fall.
(Chinese proverb)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
THE NAIL
It lay in the cold ashes,
Long and black, a tapered point
Hammered and shaped on a smithy anvil.
Heavy as iron.
Ancient.
Maybe the kind used to crucify Jesus?
Suffering Jesus!
Submitted by Editor, Ireland.
I expect to pass through life but once.
If therefore, there be any kindness I can show,
or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it,
as I shall not pass this way again.
(William Penn)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
Greasy Joan
"When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepard blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo! Tuwit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
Then nightly sings the staring owl
(Shakespeare)
Submitted by the editor, Ireland
"Enjoy when you can
and endure when you must”
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Submitted by the editor, Ireland
"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey.
It reminds us to cherish each moment,
because it will never come again"
(from Startrek - Generations)
"Times moves in one direction only
No Condition is Permanent"
(Original unknown)
Submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just where the hands will stop,
At late or early hour.
To lose one's wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one's health is more.
To lose one's soul is such a loss
As no man can restore.
The present only is our own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in 'tomorrow'
For the clock may then be still.
(Robert H Smith)
Submitted by Sean O'Cuinn, Ireland
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
(C.S. Lewis)
Submitted by Chris Furlong, Ireland
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
(Margaret Thatcher)
Submitted by Paul Duffy, Ireland
"What's money?
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning
and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
(Bob Dylan)
Submitted by Paul Duffy, Ireland
"It’s easy to do anything in victory.
It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.”
(Floyd Patterson - Afro-American Boxer)
Submitted by Miss E. Duffy, Ireland
"Follow the three R's,
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions"
(Dalai Lama)
Submitted by The Editor and Sean O'Cuinn, Ireland
"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home"
(J. H. Payne 1842-1916)
Submitted by The Editor, Ireland
Optimism
"It's no use to worry or grumble,
However hard times there may be,
I never go out, but I stumble,
On someone far worse off than me."
Submitted by D. Duffy, Ireland
"Be kind.
Most people you meet are having a hard time."
(Bob Dylan)
Submitted by the Editor, Ireland
"The place to be happy is here,
The time to be happy is now."
(Robert Green Ingersoll)
Submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
And all is well."
(Unknown)
Submitted by Robert Duffy, Ireland
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education,
than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say.
It is more important than appearances, giftedness, or skill."
(W.C. Fields)
Submitted by Robert Duffy, Ireland
"Blessed is she who suffers with the very young, and the very lonely, for she has compassion.
Blessed is she who greets the world with joy, laughter, and anticipation, for she has courage.
Blessed is she who speaks gently, lives humbly, and chooses to give freely, for she has dignity.
Blessed is she who listens and hears and extends her hand as a friend, for she has understanding.
Blessed is she who gives simply, loves deeply, and walks joyfully in life for she has sincerity and awareness.
Blessed is she who has compassion and courage, freedom and dignity, understanding, sincerity and awareness, for she is a woman, a gift, a blessing."
(A THOUGHT FOR THE JUBILEE DAY FOR THE DIGNITY OF WOMEN - 25th March, 2000
From Ampleforth Abbey's newsletter. North Yorkshire.)
Submitted by Diana G., London.
"And that inverted bowl we call the sky;
Whereunder creeping cooped we live and die;
Lift not thy hands for help, for it
Rolls impotently on as you or I."
(The Rubaiyat. Omar Khayyyam)
submitted by R. Lister, Co. Wexford
"Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens"
(Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain)
(Schiller).
submitted by R. Lister, Co. Wexford
"Beauty doesn't boil the pot"
submitted by Elizabeth Duffy, Ireland
"faith is the bird that sings when dawn is still dark"
(Rabindranath Tagore)
submitted by Deirdre McNally, Ireland
"Better to remain silent
and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt"
(Some attribute it to Mark Twain, others to Abraham Lincoln and still others to Shelley. It may have even been originally derived from Proverbs 17:28
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding")
submitted by C. Furlong, Ireland
"Happiness does not come from having
much, but from being attached to little".
(Unknown)
"Joy and suffering never leave us.
Life is a long march with a heavy burden"
(Japanese proverb)
submitted by the Editor