Quotemeal for Friday, April 9, 1965

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""

— John Greenleaf Whittier

More Quotemeal

"Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow."

— Swedish Proverb —

"Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins."

— Thomas Brooks —

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."

— John Donne —

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."

— Madeleine L'Engle —