Shonagh Smith Quotes & Sayings

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

there is nothing like the force of an immature child to test the maturity level in a parent. — Deborah MacNamara

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible. — Robin Flower

I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful. — James Baldwin

seriousness, young man, is an accident of time — Hermann Hesse

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way? — Isabelle Holland

If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows. — Plato

Natural society is a state of equality and liberty; a state in which all men enjoy the same prerogatives, and an entire independence on any other power but God. For every man is naturally master of himself, and equal to his fellow-creatures so long as he does not subject himself to another person's authority by a particular convention." - "Principles of Natural Law," p. 38. — Sydney George Fisher

She celebrated frustration by clapping her hands. — Kurt Vonnegut

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly. — A.A. Milne

All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counter-delusion. Powerful forces and connections were undoubtedly at play, yet they seemed to have no faces and no names, and it was anybody's guess what we - a crowd of deluded no-talents - could have possibly done to offend them. We had been caught up in a season of hideous magic from which nothing could offer us deliverance.
("Gas Station Carnivals") — Thomas Ligotti