I’ve been doing a lot of reading during the past few weeks while recovering from surgery.  I’ve read a few thousand pages so far, everything from theology to poetry to fiction.  Just for fun, I thought I’d share some of my favorite quotes and poems.  Enjoy!

     “I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”  – Sara Teasdale

-from “The Eternal Goodness” by John Greenleaf Whittier

     “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”   -G.K. Chesterton

     “Be careful about reading health books.  You may die of a misprint.”  -Mark Twain

     Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

                                     – from “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Elliot

     “Women are like elephants.  I like to look at ‘em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.” – W.C. Fields

     “Reputation is what men and women think of us.  Character is what God and the angels know of us.”- Thomas Paine