Quotations

“What day is it?”
It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
My favourite day,” said Pooh.”

AA Milne

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.”

Oscar Wilde

“I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.”

Douglas Adams

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Suddenly, from behind the rim of the Moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home.”

Edgar Mitchell

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

Douglas Adams

“We’re only given a little spark of madness – we mustn’t lose it”

Robin Williams

“If he’s so smart, how come he’s dead?”

Homer Simpson

“To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”

William Blake

I haven’t been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list

Susan Sontag

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted. ~

Albert Einstein

To thine own self be true

William Shakespeare

Hamlet Act 1, scene 3

(Polonius’s last piece of advice to his son Laertes, who is in a hurry to get on the next boat to Paris, where he’ll be safe from his father’s long-winded speeches.)

They always say time changes things,

but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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