The Written Word

 
I found some “sage” one-liners
I thought I’d share with you.
They are from a book of quotes.
Here are just a few.
 
Quotes to bring a smile,
Some are more worth while
Than others ~
 
From Pudd’n Head Wilson’s Calendar:*
“…cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“Noise proves nothing.  Often a hen who has merely laid an egg, cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
“Be good and you’ll be lonesome.”
 
Attributed to Mark Twain:
“Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence in society.”
 
Bill Mauldin – cartoonist during WWII:
“I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.’”
 
H.L. Menken: an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking.”
 
And then, because I write for kids
Of Singing Toads and Katydids,
Here are authors’ words that I
Love, and think they signify
Joy
 
 
Some of my favorite words in the lines from Rudyard Kipling’s scene in The Elephant’s Child, or How the Elephant Got His Trunk, as the little elephant was about to meet the crocodile.
“He trod on what he thought was a log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River all set about with Fever Trees. But it was really the crocodile, oh best beloved, and the crocodile winked one eye, like this!”
 
And then there’s A.A. Milne’s lovable (and wise) Winnie the Pooh:
“A hug is always the right size.” ...
“The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.” ...
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
 
Books don’t need to be replaced
We need them for the human race
Passing down to children who
Will read them and then read them to
 
More generations, stories told,
Beloved for years by young and old
Books, real books; pages to turn
Wondrous things from which to learn.
 
May libraries, and books stores never close.