Foeke Booys Quotes & Sayings

Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
Gives and receives all bliss,
fullest when most
Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink! — Robert Pollok

Absurdities die of self-strangulation. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We've a bond, haven't we, Goaty? Fellow victims. Partners in survival. Though God knows what my mum will say If I try and take him home... — Kate Cann

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth. — Edward St. Aubyn

I am my nearest neighbour. — Tacitus

apparently the evil was, oddly enough, always on the other side. — Terry Pratchett

The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful ... and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words of the Bible literally. — Francis Chan