Quotes for a Tuesday

I really need to come up with a witty sort of barb for this series of posts.  I could use Quottables, but I think Reader’s Digest uses that.  Quoth the Raven or some variant is too much of a rip off.  And just saying Quotes is sort of lacking.  I’ll come up with something for the new year, at least.

Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. ~author unknown

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ~James Branch Cabell

If we all did things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~author unknown

Christians like pianos need frequent tuning. ~author unknown

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. ~St. Francis of Assissi

One way to be happy ever after is not to be after too much. ~author unknown

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‘Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain… I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’ ‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’ What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate! I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. ~J.K. Rowling

 

 

 

 

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