Mary Briscoe > Mary's Quotes

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Hope costs nothing. ”
― Colette

“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.”
― Colette

“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
― Colette

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”
― Colette

“Be happy.
It's one way of being wise.”
― Colette

“The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.”
― Colette

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
― Marianne Moore

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, The Poems of Marianne Moore

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“the lesson of the falling leaves

the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves”
― Lucille Clifton

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton