And so we arrive at this month’s collection of recently encountered quotes …
Imagine how noisy centipedes would be if they wore tiny flip flops.
[unknown]
You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.
[Friedrich Nietzsche]
Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It’s a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.
[Dolly Parton]
Young wenches … gett upon a Table-board, and then gather-up their knees & their coates with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro with their Buttocks as if they were kneading of Dowgh with their Arses.
[John Aubrey (1626-1697)]
In the old ignorant times before woomen were Readers ye history was handed downe from mother to daughter, &c.
[John Aubrey (1626-1697)]
The most pleasant of all outward pastimes is … to make pretty progress, a merry journey now and then with some good companions, to visit friends, see Cities, Castles, Towns, to see the pleasant fields, the crystal fountains, and take the gentle air amongst the mountains.
[Robert Burton; The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)]
There are only two options: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are frightening.
[Carl Sagan]