My Favourite Quotes
- “If youth knew, if age could”
- Henri Estienne
- “The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
- Miguel Cervantes
- “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
- Samuel Beckett
- “The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them. As a guide I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving”
- J R R Tolkien
- “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “An honest man’s the noblest work of God”
- Robert Burns
- “Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no-one does what he sets out to do.”
- George Moore, Irish novelist
- “Yesterday is gone— forget it. Tomorrow never comes— don’t worry. Today is here— use it.”
- Anon.
- “Andy Warhol was wrong: in the future, everyone won’t be famous for fifteen minutes. But everyone will have their own web site.”
- Jon Winokur, author
- “May ye be just as happy yoursel’ as ye like to see a’body else.”
- Walter Scott
- “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is the heart and not the brain
That to the highest doth attain”
- Longfellow
- “Worry not, if you’re too strong and too proud
To be a sheep and follow the crowd”
- Anon
- “Words are the only things that last forever”
- William Hazlitt
- “Romance celebrates the power of love and the nobility of the human spirit.”
- Kathleen Eagle, romance author
- “Let your children go if you want to keep them.”
- Malcolm Forbes
- “The wisest are those who can best adjust their disadvantages”
- Anon
