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I kept a sentence a friend said to me on msn the other day, but I'll keep it for myself rather than sharing it. Suffice to say, English is not his first language, and the way he said it made me melt. Knowing that other people have confidence in your writing makes you seem a bit silly for doubting yourself, no?
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
There is an easy solution to every human problem. Neat, plausible - and wrong.
(Thanks to Google, after all this time I've just discovered the first one was said by Benjamin Franklin and the second by Henry Louis Mencken.)
If anyones interested, the Brainy Quote word of the day is Hallux. I have to confess Ive never heard of it, but neither has my spell checker.
into a google search. The answer might surprise you!
Elizabeth Jolley
Deep thoughts from a goalkeeper.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be?"
Try this one on for size, Lizzie...
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent wihout hard work is a tragedy - Robert Half
The elderly often repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
'Learning without thinking is fruitless; thinking without learning is dangerous.'
How right he was.
Tomorrow I'm off to do my mother thing at school. My boys are performing in the class assembly, and one of them is dressing up as Granny (there are girls in the class, so don't know why Dom's doing it instead). When I asked if he was okay with it, the darling replied with a grin- 'I live to entertain.'
Mother put in her place.
One of my favourite quotes is, "A closed mouth gathers no feet".
No idea who said it, but it's certainly something that I should rememeber more often.
There's another one that maybe someone on Talkback can help me to identify. I saw it on a website years ago, and then lost the site and didn't write it down. It went something like this (I paraphrase a lot from what I can remember):
"English doesn't just 'borrow' words. It actively chases other languages down alleyways to hit them over the head and go through their pockets for spare vocabulary."