(16 quotes found)
“You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob,And a ring-and-thimble cake.”
Carolyn Wells
“Actions lie louder than words.”
“'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!”
“I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!”
Contributed by: Randi
“Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life”
“Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.”
“Of two evils, choose the prettier”
“A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye”
“The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.”
“A guilty conscience is the mother of invention”