Your Favorite Quote/Saying?...and dragon ramblings...

[Farseer]

^ I so could have used this a couple of days ago, redchild...it would have sounded spectacular prior to the click of a hung-up phone!

Robert Frost
"I took the road less travelled and it made all the differance"

Oh, my! I fell in love with these words from Frost's poem 'The Road Not Taken' way back during my final year of Secondary schooling. The poem was the opening verse for one of my favourite English textbooks. Its title? Yellow Wood, which was taken from the first line of the same poem:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both...

That Frost ended up choosing "the one less travelled by" was powerful stuff for a seventeen-year-old (who was ready to take on the world) to hear! I certainly took his advice, and have subsequently found myself both thanking and damning him over these past twenty years!!

['thul]

These beings enjoy one they got from a game sometime last week...

"If you must eat a phoenix, don't roast it, that only encourages it. Instead boil in water or hot oil."

[redchild]

^ I so could have used this a couple of days ago, redchild...it would have sounded spectacular prior to the click of a hung-up phone!

Indeed. D:

These beings enjoy one they got from a game sometime last week...

"If you must eat a phoenix, don't roast it, that only encourages it. Instead boil in water or hot oil."

Mmm, fried phoenix and waffles. Is that from Ace Attorney?


And a running joke in To Be or Not To Be:
"They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out of Bismarck, and the Fuhrer is going to end up as a piece of cheese!"

['thul]

Nope. Not from that. These beings do not even know what Ace Attorney is.

[Nuytsia]

If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done!

In twelve words, she has encapsulated my life!

DITTO!

[redchild]

Einstein quotes! They conveniently read like tweets...

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat."

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

"Nothing happens until something moves."

[Farseer]

I have a 'Country Wisdom' perpetual calendar in my kitchen with "warm-hearted thoughts" set down for each day. Today's entry reads:

A deep canyon cut through solid rock is the monument of a river's persistence.

A nice thought on its own however I couldn't help but immediately think of *Farseer spoiler*

Spoiler

Fool's words to Kettle after Kettle had complained about Fitz as he struggled up the Skill Road.

Kettle asked, 'How can such a child be the Catalyst?'

Fool said in reply, 'Competence was never guaranteed in the prophecies. Only persistence. What does your White Colum say? "They come like raindrops against the stone tower of time. But in time it is always the rain that prevails, not the tower." '

Okay, so this could just as easily have gone in the 'You know you're hooked when...' thread!

[fool-ish]

"If it was raining soup, you'd be outside with a fork!" *Tawny Man* spoiler

Spoiler

Jek to Fitz in Golden Fool.

I really hope that one sticks in my mind and is used at least once in my life! Brilliant!

[Farseer]

I agree! Such a terrific line!

I feel all 'Godfather-like' when I do it, but I've just amended the post to include a spoiler tag as there's no spoiler tags in the thread title.

Maybe you would like to play the quote game, fool-ish?

[fool-ish]

I agree! Such a terrific line!

I feel all 'Godfather-like' when I do it, but I've just amended the post to include a spoiler tag as there's no spoiler tags in the thread title.

Maybe you would like to play the quote game, fool-ish?

Oops, sorry! Wasn't my intention to spoil.

And I'll check out the quote game :-)