Literally Blogging

Okay, time to wake up those brains after all that holiday loafing!

Below are some famous quotes/excerpts from well-known works of literature and/or authors. How well-read are you?

Give it a try, and post your answers in the Comments section. The winners get…respect and admiration!

1. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

2. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

3. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

4. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

5. Slow and steady wins the race.

6. Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

7. We need never be ashamed of our tears.

8. All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

9. We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

10. “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?”

11. And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him.

12. No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

13. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .

14. “Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.”

15. Call me Ishmael.

16. “Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”

17. They were going to look at war, the red animal–war, the blood-swollen god.

18. “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

19. “You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

20. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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