Scarsellas Nursery Quotes & Sayings

It's lonely and cold on the top ... lonely and cold. — Judy Garland

It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant) — Charles De Leusse

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. — Mark Twain

Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish. — William Poundstone

A long time back, she thought, I dreamed a dream, and was enjoying it so much when someone wakened me, and that day I was born. And now? Now, let me see ... She cast her mind back. Where was I? she thought. Ninety years ... how to take up the thread and the pattern of that lost dream again? She put out a small hand. There ... yes, that was it. She smiled. Deeper in the warm snow hill she turned her head upon her pillow. That was better. Now, yes, now she saw it shaping in her mind quietly, and with a serenity like a sea moving along an endless and self-refreshing shore. Now she let the old dream touch and lift her from the snow and drift her above the scarce-remembered bed. — Ray Bradbury

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue. — William Shakespeare