Quotes You Like

@leur said
“Ever see Audrey Hepburn on a bicycle? No, me neither. Catherine Deneuve? Nope. The very notion of either of them, surely two of the most elegant women the world has ever known, getting into the gear and clambering on board a bike is a full-frontal assault on beauty.”
Roslyn Dee, columnist, Irish Daily Mail, February 2nd 2008

Two of my eternal favorites.
Just watched Catherine in the classic musical "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". What a stunner she is!!! 😊

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

-Arthur Carlson "Big Guy"

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My recent fav is from The Last Empress drama: "You can never be happy if you envy others and covet what they have."

For me " To understand everything is to forgive everything" - Buddha

@leur said
“Ever see Audrey Hepburn on a bicycle? No, me neither. Catherine Deneuve? Nope. The very notion of either of them, surely two of the most elegant women the world has ever known, getting into the gear and clambering on board a bike is a full-frontal assault on beauty.”
Roslyn Dee, columnist, Irish Daily Mail, February 2nd 2008

Audrey was Dutch. I guarantee you she could and did ride a bike.

Hyacinth Bucket (Keeping Up Appearances): I wish Rose would settle down and find a husband. One of her own, I mean; not somebody else’s.

Dust If You Must

by Rose Milligan


Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better
To paint a picture, or write a letter,
Bake a cake, or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;
Friends to cherish, and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go (and go you must)
You, yourself, will make more dust.

"I have learned two important lessons in my life. I can't recall the first one, but the second one is that I need to start writing stuff down."

@shallow-blue said
Audrey was Dutch.

She cold claim British/Belgian/Dutch/Austrian nationality.
And spoke English, Dutch, French and Spanish.

She was a great UN ambassador and received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George Bush.

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Memories can make us happy but forgetting enables us to live.

Honoré de Balzac

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
―from CITIES OF THE PLAINS (1998) by Cormac McCarthy

There are two secrets in life that will give you success beyond your wildest dreams

1. Never reveal all your secrets.

“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else."
-- Mark Twain