LibrarianCarina’s most recent Quotables

Fear and admiration are cousins.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us accident-prone.

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"

Keep playing.

An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Is there world enough for me?

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Every consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.

You can take a road that gets you to the stars,
I can take a road that will see me through.

Begin at once to live.

How terrible to watch a man who has the incomprehensible within his grasp, doesn't know what to do, and sits down playing with a toy called God.

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.

I think I wasn't made for houses.

True singing is a different breath, about nothing.