MacBeth Quotes III

1. He has a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.


2. Naught's bad, all's spent, where our desire is got without content.


3. Things without rememdy should be regard: what's done is done.


4. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well.


5. You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

Thursday quotes

1. Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. --Blythe Holbrook

2. Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. --Robert Edwards

3. If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor. --Warden Lewis Lawes

4. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressable is music. --Aldous Huxley

5. Action is eloquence. --William Shakespeare

Tuesday quotes

1. How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you being to understand there is no going back. There are some things time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...and take hold. --J.R. Tolkien


2. He who cannot draw on the three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. --Goethe


3. What she wanted from them was sympathy -- because she still felt, or at least feared, that Ivan was a good man and she had lost a prize. But if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it my pride that's wounded?


Maybe. But she still knew, deep in her heart, that this was not true, either. Because if Ivan came back to her, even now, she would go to him. She wouldn't trust him, but she would take him back. Because she really did love him. And love doesn't dissapear just because of the vile unworthiness of the loved one.


She had always thought Ivan was the kind of man who kept a promise.


--Orson Scott Card, in Enchantment


4. Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint on it you can. --Danny Kaye


5. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing, and seeing great work at some moment every day. --Thomas Wilder

Monday quotes, again

1. Although we know the end of the maze holds death...I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being - one of many ways - and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. --Daniel Keyes, in Flowers for Algernon.

2. Music has the poiwer to abolish everything in the outside world except its souns, which go straight to the heart. --Gaston Leoureux

3. Hearts are not had as gifts, but hearts are earned. --W. B. Yeats

4. For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or tree times removed, when we know least about it. --R.W. Emerson

5. Never find fault with the absent. --Alexander Pope

Wednesday Quotes

1. Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. --Jessalyn West

2. Imagination is more important than intelligence. --Albert Einstein

3. The great weight of the unspoken left them little to talk about. --Tennyson

4. Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case. --Brother Ogletree's quotes

5. But all three of them had to lose things in order to gain the other thing. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on. --Nick Hornby, About a Boy

Blackboard Quotes by Bart Simpson

I will not torment the emotionally frail.
Cursive writing does not mean what I think it means.
Indian burns are not our cultural heritage.
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
No one is interested in my underpants.
I am not deliciously saucy.
I will not waste chalk.
Underwear should be worn on the inside.
They are laughting at me, not with me.
I am not a 32-year-old woman.
I will not sell land in Flroida.
Bart Bucks are not legal tender.
My homework was not stoeln by a one-armed man.
Beans are neither fruit nor musical.

--Bart Simpson, The Simpsons

Love, Home, and Healing quotes

1. Odi et amo. Quare id faciem fortasse requiris. Nescio sed fieri sentio excrucior. --Gaius Catullus (I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you might ask? I don't know, but I feel it happening, and I am tormented.)


2. There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. --Tennessee Williams


3. If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up. --Brigham Young


4. "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."  'I should have called it something you somehow hadn't to deserve."  --Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man


5. Cause timendi est nescire. --Seneca  (The cause of fear is not knowing.)

Friday quotes

1. Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. --Alexander Pope

2. True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behaviors. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. --Pres. Boyd K. Packer, Oct. 1986

3. Friendship is a delicate combination of admiration, trust, empathy, two forks and one dessert. --Leslie Jensen

4. The stronger sex is really the weaker sex because of the weakness the stronger sex has for the weaker sex. --Anon.

5. Happiness makes up for in height what it lacks in length. --Robert Frost.

Wednesday quotes

1. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde

2. Inspiration doesn't lie in the mud; it lies in the clean and wholesome life of the ordinary man. --Robert Frost

3. Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. --Joseph P. Thompson

4. Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure about the former. --Albert Einstein

5. Money may buy the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings food, but not the appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. --Henry Ibsen

Monday Quotes

1. Life is full of needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention when alrger matters are at stake, and they remain in the mind they are fogotten, so that in years later, it is a bit of gilding, or a certain smell , or the tone of clockt's striking which recalls one to a tragedy. --Evelyn Waugh

2. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with snse, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --Galileo Galilei

3. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. --James Thurber

4. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. --A. A. Milne

5. Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?  --Anon.

Quotes for today

1. If today, you are not confused, you just not thinking clearly. --Irene Peter

2. She who seeks her knight in shining armor must remember that she will have to clean up after his horse. --Anon.

3. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globes of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carosel, my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light...for far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!

Why do poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia, man must be silent? --Richard Feynman

4. I know that I saw my own Hell there, the Hell of the artist, and that all who sought after beautiful and wonderful things with too avid a thirts lsto peace and form and became shapeless and common. --W.B. Yeats

5. Someday, when we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide, and gravity, we will harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. --Rene de Chardin

Five more quotes

1. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. --Anon.

2. Learning is not the attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. --Abigail Adams

3. Education is the acquisition o f the art of the utilization of language. --Alfred North Whitehead

4. Wisdom is found on the desolate hillside, El-ahrairah, where none come to feed, and the stony bank where the rabbit scratches a hole in vain. --Richard Adams, Watership Down

5. Ubi Romani solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. --Tacitus (Where Romans create a wasteland, they call it peace.)

"Building a Palace" by C.S. Lewis

Imagine yourself a a living house.
God comes in to remodel that house.
At first, you can understand what he is doing;
he's fixing drains and making minor repairs,
but presently he starts knocking you about
in a manner that hurts abominably...
He's knocking out walls there and adding on rooms here.
It hurts awful...what on earth could he be up to?
Adding on extra wings here, putting up towers there...
The answer is quite simple.
you thought you were going to be a quaint little house,
But God has another purpose in mind.
He's building a palace.


--C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Thursday Quotes

1. The art of flying is to throw oneself at the ground, and miss. --Douglas Adams

2. Nine out of ten statistics are made up on the spot. --Anon.

3. "Well, if you will, go on. Know this: although you are wrong to go, your friends are right to love you."  --Ismene, in Antigone, by Sophocles.

4. Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings, admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. --Albert Einstein

5. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain

Friday's Quotes

1. If you can't stand the coldness of my sort of life, and the strain of it, go back to the gutter. Work till you are more a brute than a being; and cuddle and squabble and drink till you fall asleep. Oh, it's a fine life, the life of the gutter. You can feel it through the thickest strain; you can taste it and smell it without any training or any work. Not like Science and Literature and Classical Music and Philosophy and Art.
--George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion

2. People who think they know everyhing are very annoying to those of us who do. --Anon.

3. The reason the all-American boy preers beauty to brains is the all-American boy can see better than he can think. --Farrah Fawcett Majors

4. Consistency is the measure of our desire. --?

5. Talent is not as rare as the need to express it or the stength to handle the rejection. --Barbara Hershey

Contemporary quotes

In which we take a break from teenage Katie to visit some quotes I've discovered I love within the past few years.


1.  "You and I dream, when we dream nightmares, of being somehow less than worthy of that grace, that strength, that love. We dream of cages, where nothing is permitted. These dreams are lies. Jump." --Jacob Clifton


2. "Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." --George Iles


3. "When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But you can't run for ever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But all the skies of all the worlds might turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it." --Stephan Moffat


4.  "It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness." --Edith Wharton


5. "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo




2. I'd heard that faith is an action word, and that I should act on faith, but what does that mean? If you're not actually standing in a place where a leap is required, what does it mean to have faith, beyond obedience. I think it means having hope, and refusing to give power to nihilism. Hope is the action part of faith. I also love the part about hold out one's hand. Faith is trusting that the Lord will not leave one hanging.


3. More Doctor Who. Moffat gets why the Doctor is fantastic. (He only missed why Rose is. No one's perfect.)


4. Edith Wharton must have been a kick in the pants to know. I'm sorry I'll never get the chance to make her acquaintance. My dream dinner party includes her, Jane Austen, Oliver Wilde, and Alexander Pope.


5. This one I found about 15 years ago, so it is a break from the contemporary quotes. I LOVE it. Whatever personal belief system I form, it needs to include everything I know to be true, including the Lord's respect of us.

Five more quotes

1. Oh that I could go, yet stay. Have tomorrow, keep today. Cherish, hold my yesterday. My yesterday, now treasured dear, was once tomorrow, seen with fear. --Kimber Ricks.

2. You cannot run from weakness. You must sometime either fight it out or perish, and if that be so...why not now, and where you stand? --Robert Louis Stevenson

3. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain a harmonious conception of memory. --F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. This life is a test, it is only a test. If it were not a test, we would have been given instruction on where to go and what to do. -- via Jenny

5. The advantage of a classical education is it enables you to despise the wealth it prevents you from achieving. --Russel Green

MacBeth Quotes II

1. Your face is as a book, where men may read strange matters.

2. The love that follows us sometime is our trouble.

3. But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.

4. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

5. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from hand?

MacBeth Quotes I

MacBeth has some of the most amazing one liners in literature. The play is awesome on its own, but the out-of-context quotes are fun as well. There are so many I'm going to split them up.

1. Angels are bright still, although the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, grace must still look so. 

2. Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

3. There's no art to find the mind's construction in a face.

4. Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my dark and deep desires.

5. If chance will have me king, why, chance my crown me.

Tuesday quotes

1. Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is, most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most marriages take a high degree of toleration, most jobs are more often boring than otherwise.

Life is a lot like an old time rail journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts interspersed only occaionally with beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. --Jenkins Lloyd Jones

2. But remember, young man...you are not the first person who has ever been alone and alone...--F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. There is no terra firma. Eternal rest must be earned, sleep must be earned, dreams must be lived, and life must be dreamt. --Kurt Wolff

4. If you can't convince them, confuse them.  --Harry S. Truman

5. I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me. --Tennyson