Thanks to David Howe for the three quotes he gave to me at Warwick Castle - just before the launch of Warwick Words Festival 2008:

'Life - it's just one damned thing after another' (Elbert Hubbard)

'Oh, isn't life a terrible thing - thank God!' (Dylan Thomas)  Thanks for this one, David... there are so many lines in Under Milkwood that could fit easily onto this quote wall aren't there?

Final thanks to David for a quote by Neil Simon: 'I love living.  I have some problems with my life - but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.' Thanks, David.

Here's one that was a favourite on our cottage loo wall.  Sorry, I didn't carve the quotes into wooden beams like Montaigne did with his favourites but I did write them in calligraphic writing ... and stuck them to the wall with blue tac ... hmm...  not as impressive as Montaigne I know... but we enjoyed reading them nevertheless.

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.

(Ezra Pound)  posted by Julie Boden

 ‘Robert Frost is one of the best writers-about-writing that I’ve ever come across, and what he has to say about the origins of poetry in each of us seems true to me: it begins with a lump in the throat, a lovesickness, a homesickness’. (Thanks to Andrew Motion for emailing this one for the wall)

Heres another from the cottage loo wall: 'And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker/ And in short, I was afraid (T.S.Eliot)  posted by Julie Boden

 

 "I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against." -Damon Runyon (hence the Bronx English) from "A Nice Price" 1937: sent in by Nigel.

 "I'd pick more daises" - Don Herald on asked if he could have his life over again. Posted by Jan.