Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone.
Henry VI, Part One
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
“A Red, Red Rose”
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
The hands of the clock were reaching high
In an old midtown hotel;
I name no name, but its sordid fame
Is table talk in hell.
I name no name, but hell's own flame
Illumes the lobby garish,
A gilded snare just off Times Square
For the maidens of the parish.
“A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor”
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
Small Gods (Discworld, vol.13)
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
Matilda
Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff.
Vista, wista, mista-cuff.
We are men of groans and howls,
Mystic men who eat boiled owls.
Tell us what you wish, oh King.
Our magic can do anything.
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
After being abducted by aliens and left incoherent
in the woods across the street, the government
would quietly whisk me away into a secret hospital
where machine parts would be grafted, little by little,
onto my nonfunctioning body parts. Now bionic,
I would hear the quietest of sounds. Gone ultrasonic,
I would jot down hushed conversations
and stave off the threat of war from other nations.
“The Six Million Dollar Deaf Boy”
In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
A Princess of Mars
Dr. Seuss
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lemony Snicket
Ogden Nash
Oscar Wilde
Raymond Luczak
Roald Dahl
Robert Burns
Terry Pratchett
William Shakespeare
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