Here are some phrases and quotations that I have found helpful, inspiring or just plain funny. If you have any favourite quotations, I would love to include them on a page linked to this one. Send the quotation, source (if known) and your name to the email at the bottom of this page.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
I seem to have been like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered around me.
Isaac Newton
There is so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in the best of us
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Anon
Never trust a dog with orange eyebrows.
Terry Pratchett
A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet.
Unknown (I learned it from Bryan Day... Thanks Dad)
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon
Love is after all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Love is blind, friendship closes it's eyes.
Anon
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault were only on one side.
Francois Rochefoucauld
If we had no fault of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Francois Rochefoucauld
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Anon
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
Teach us delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs,
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men 'neath the sun.
Rudyard Kipling - The children's song
