h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello everyone....I love finding cool quotes....I have a wall in my bedroom I have entitled the wall of wisdom and I tape quotations on it from friends, family member, poets, and authors....I was doing some research on some bookshelf cd I have on the arena chapel for my history of art class and I was playing in the quotations book that it has....I found these...some of the speakers I do not know...and will have to get around to resear ching......Edna St. Vincent Millay is one of my favorites and there are a few quotes from her.

This is my favorite

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone." Tallulah Bankhead--U.S. screen actor

"When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?"
--Oliver Goldsmith (Irish poet)...sung by Olivia in The Vicar of Wakefield

"Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire."
--Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld ( French Writer)

The next three are from Edna St Vincent Millay...the first one is rather famous....

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!"

"After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Now that love is perished?"

"I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four season of the year"


And the last......

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be--That's why people are cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."--Erica Jong (U.S. author)

well there you go....which I imagine is too much information for one day

Jessica aka Rainstrm27