Great Throughts Treasury

"Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more."

"A woman's got as much right -and more cause- to get drunk than any man."

"Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut."

"As I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty. And there I met a pretty miss, and she dropped me a curtsy. Little miss, pretty miss, blessings light upon you. If I had half a crown a day,I'd gladly spend it on you."

"Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term."

"I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it."

"I dreamt about you last night. Fell out of bed twice."

"I?m not afraid of the darkness outside. It?s the darkness inside houses I don?t like."

"This isn't such a bad place to be though. I imagine you could get very fond of it from a distance."

"When you leave school finally you will find that life is a game, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, but a game that must be played with true team-spirit . . ."

"Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old."

"You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there."

"You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love."

"My usual self is a very unusual self."

"Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it?s mark."

"Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman's corns, has it?"

"The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence"