💬 Quotes

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"Repetition makes sorrows oft deeper, but the remedy lies in action."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"All's well that ends well yet, though time seem so adverse, and fortune kind."

"Kind folks are worth a mint of money, even if they don't have any."

"Avonlea is a nice place. It's safe. Nothing exciting ever happens, but you always know where you are."

"Anyone who has to rely on the opinions of other people for happiness is in a pitiable state indeed."

"Every footprint left behind in the mud tells a story of a world that existed long before our ambitions took root."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind hard enough that you will."

"True worth is not found in grand deeds alone, but in the faithful performance of the little duties of everyday life."

"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"Whoso pulletth out this sword from this stone and anvil is rightwise king of all England.' The circumbendibus is the most offensive thing in the English language."

"Pestilence, famine, massacre, oppression, profanation, desecration; tpallid want, anguish, and despair—these are the ministrants, the unwearied servants, the eternal brotherhood, of monarchical government."

"It were a new world, indeed, if all men should rise to their highest possibilities, but it is better that the clod should sleep on as God made it, than that it should wake to ache."

"Sound, honest government is the most valuable asset of any nation, and the people should be perpetually vigilant in its defense."

"Look at the history of that country—the one that's lost its mind—and you will see that every single human right it possesses was wrung from its king by force."

"By heavens, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks."

"I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world..."

"The better part of valor is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."