Elizabeth’s Comments (group member since Jul 10, 2007)

Elizabeth’s comments from the Quotable Quotes group.

Let parents bequeath
to their children not riches,
but the spirit of reverence.
-Plato

People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering.
-Saint Augustine

Dum spiro, spero.
While I breathe, I hope. --Cicero

"Affectations can be dangerous." (on Isadora Duncan--who died in a freak automobile accident in Nice).

Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.
One who lives well, lives unnoticed. -Ovid

Amor vincit omnia
Love conquers all--Virgil

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. --William Blake

"We must not let daylight in upon the magic." --Walter Bagehot

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.--Marion C. Garretty

Nor need we power or splendor,
wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true,
the tender--these form the wealth of home.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Homes

Talent develops in the quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
--Goethe

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
-D.H. Lawrence

Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon

Twenty years from now you will be more dissapointed by the things you didn't do, than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away fro the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
-Mark Twain

"Brook! Whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue;
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,
And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

"Dance like no one is watching.
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt
and live like it's heaven on Earth."
-Mark Twain