456ff Quotes & Sayings

Does something amuse you?' asked Uncle Montague.
'I was merely reminding myself, Uncle, that I am getting too old to be so easily frightened by stories.'
'Really?' said Uncle Montague with a worrying degree of doubt in his voice. 'You think there is an age at which you might become immune to fear? — Chris Priestley

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation. — Donald S. Whitney

We gave away most of our belongings. Interestingly, the more we gave away, the better we felt. Happiness researchers call this a 'helper's high,' in which helping others through volunteering or giving reduces stress and releases endorphins. — Tammy Strobel

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues. — Mason Cooley

One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it. — Virginia Woolf

The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We're all part of one great oversoul. — Benjamin Creme

Sometimes I want to slap some of the characters with their own book. — Anonymous

The Library is a wilderness of books. — Henry David Thoreau

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy. — Ambrose Bierce

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't. — Anthony Hopkins