Lackaday Quotes & Sayings

When the waiter brought the cheese-board, there was a large carrot carved in the shape of a mermaid sitting between the Dolcelatte and the Pecorino. Teo could have sworn that the carrot-mermaid flexed her tail and plunged her little hand inside a smelly Gorgonzola. 'Tyromancy, ye know,' remarked the mermaid. 'The Ancient Art of Divination by Cheese.' Then she pulled her tiny hand out and inspected the green cheese-mold on her tiny fingers. 'Lackaday!' she moaned. 'Stinking! It goes poorly for Venice and Teodora, it do! — Michelle Lovric

Forgive me, Father, but I'm still screwed up. — Lani Diane Rich

Your best kicks ass and takes names," Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again. — Allen Zadoff

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. — J.K. Rowling

When a woman's face is wrinkled
And her hairs are sprinkled,
With gray, Lackaday!
Aside she's cast,
No one respect will pay;
Remember, Lasses, remember.
And while the sun shines make hay:
You must not expect in December,
The flowers you gathered in May. — Ann Rinaldi

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. — Ambrose Bierce

He melts, I think. He goes like a drop of froth. You look at him, and there he is. You look at him again, and - there he isn't. — Charles Dickens

Handsome men could cast spells of magic that would cloud a woman's mind, no matter how chaste she was. — Emma Lane