Bill King's inklings...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet,
Their words repeat
Of Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men.
The Bells of Christmas, adapted from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



It is not a slight thing when they,
who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens, regarding children



'God bless us every one.' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens



Pax Intrantibus, Salve Extrantibus.
(Peace to those who enter, Salvation to those who leave)



Teach us delight in simple things,
And fun that has no bitter springs,
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all beneath the sun.
from Christmas in India , by Rudyard Kipling



Serendipity -The pleasant surprise of happening upon a fortunate discovery when you weren't in

search of it.
Coined by Henry Walpole in The Princess of Serendip (Ceylon), (1754)



Here today, up and off somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement!
Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame



The face of a newborn child is as close as we come to seeing the face of God in this life!
- Bill King



Humanity is a painting on an earthy canvas splashed with Divine paint.
- Bill King



Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
from The True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen


In Hans Christian Andersen's The Last Dream of the Oak Tree,
the oak tree and the mayfly discuss death:

'Over, what is over?' asks the little fly.
'Will all the beauty in the world die when you die?' she asks the oak tree.
'It will last longer, infinitely longer than I am able to imagine,'
replies the great oak tree.



'But he hasn't got any clothes on,' a little boy said.
The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen



They could see she was a real princess because she had felt one pea through 20 feather

mattresses. Nobody but a princess could be so delicate.
The Princess and the Pea in Fairy Tales (1835)
Hans Christian Andersen



Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day.
1934 song title
Al Hoffman (1902-1960) and Maurice Sigler (1901-1961)


Turn but a stone, and start a wing!

It's you, it's your estranged faces,
That miss the many-splendored thing.
adapted from The Kingdom of God from Poems (1913)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)



Look for me in the nurseries of heaven.
from Poems (1913)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)



Long ago a Child came down
To a little sleepy town,
And upon that Christmas morn,
Christ the heavenly King was born.
Freeman



All we see and all we seem,
Is but a dream within a dream.
from the poem Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe



The English word 'miracle' comes from the Latin words which translate 'a wonderful thing.'

While we associate miracles with occasional, supernatural events beyond our ability to

comprehend, perhaps we would be better to see a miracle as the daily gifts of God, waking to a

new morning, a warm breeze, a newborn baby's face, a rosy sunrise or peach-colored sunset, the

glisten of dew or frost on a grassy field and a sparrow singing while it's raining - - all of the daily

wonderful things God gives to each of us and that require no great insight to comprehend.
from Miracle of Miracles - Bill King



Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin Luther (1483-1536)



My delight, and your delight,
Walking like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.
from My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Bridges (1844-1930)



Inspiration is the passionate spur of a vague desire...
- Bill King, a paraphrase of Michail Vrubel



With the rush and flutter of angels wings
My prayers float silently up to God.
from A Rush of Wings - Bill King



Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins.
Which of the two has the grander view?
from Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo



Even Santa Claus believes in YOU, Can you picture that?
from 'Can You Picture That?' sung in The Muppet Movie (1979), by Jim Henson's Muppets



There is no word yet for old friends who have just met.
from The Muppet Movie (1979)


Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as

simply messing about in boats.

Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)



A Dream is woven from thin air and nothing,
Embroidered with wishes and everything,
Then filled with the padding of hope and delight.
from Aspiration and Dreams - Bill King



I will believe what
I believe until death,
Then living once more
I will know what
I believe to be sure.
from Certainty - Bill King



Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
from Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesteron



I believe in the ultimate goodness of things.
Robert Louis Stevenson



Oh, Bear! said Christopher Robin,
How I do love you!
So do I, said Pooh.
from Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Alan Alexander (A. A.) Milne (1882-1956)



The lovable old Pooh Bear was named for Winnie,
an American Black Bear who lived at the London Zoo
frequented by Milne and his son, Christopher Robin Milne.



But now I am six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now,
For ever and ever.
Now We Are Six (1928)
Alan Alexander (A. A.) Milne (1882-1956)
(The speaker is supposed to be six-year old Christopher Robin Milne.)
(ed. note: Sadly, Christopher Robin Milne grew up and resented his father's
typecasting of Christopher Robin for the rest of his life.)


My spelling is Wobbly.
It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places.
from Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne



Tiggers don't like hunney.
from The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
A. A. Milne



Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?
from Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne



Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on the little hands, little golden head;
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.
Vespers
A. A. Milne



From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggity beasties
And things that go bump in the night
Good Lord, deliver us!
a traditional Cornish Children's Prayer



Little children, headache; big children, heartache.
Italian Proverb


We are the music makers,
We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; -
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
We are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881)



I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
White Christmas (1942)
Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer, lyricist
originally performed by Bing Crosby



A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you day and night.
from A Pretty Girl is like a Melody (1919)
Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer, lyricist



Raindrops on roses,
Whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and
warm woolen mittens,
Brown paper packages
tied up in strings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
from My Favorite Things
from The Sound of Music (1965)
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
sung by Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp



Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
Til you find your dream.
from Climb Every Mountain,
from The Sound of Music
Rodgers and Hammerstein
sung by Julie Andrews



Life is just a bowl of cherries.
song title (1932)
Lew Brown (1893-1958) and Ray Henderson



Every time it rains, it rains -
Pennies from heaven.
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune falling
All over town
Be sure that your umbrella
Is upside down.
Pennies from Heaven (1936)
Johnny Burke (1908-1964)
and Arthur Johnston,


'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice,
'without pictures or conversations?'
from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)



Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.
from Little Women (1868)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)



My heart is like a singing bird.
from A Birthday (1861)
Christina Giorgina Rossetti (1830-1894)



Sleep that no pain shall wake,
Night that no morn shall break.
Christina Rossetti



Spring is when life's alive in everything.
Christina Rossetti



All things that pass
Are wisdom's looking-glass.
Christina Rossetti



I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.
from Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (1854)
Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864)



Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.
from Beautiful Dreamer (1864)
Stephen Foster



I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony.

- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
the Hillside Singers
(basis for a Coca-Cola TV commercial)



Man is never closer to God than when he is in a garden.
Anonymous



We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air.
from Retrospection (1846)
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)



Clear and cool, clear and cool,
By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.
from Water-Babies (1863)
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)



It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me.
It's the parts I do understand.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
American Humorist and Author



All this and heaven too.
attributed to Matthew Henry (1662-1714)



Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
from The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) (1862-1910)



Through all of the changing scenes of life, hope abides.
- Bill King, a paraphrase of Nahum Tate



Let my wealth be stored in vaults no earthly banker can unlock.
- Bill King



You may still choose to believe something you cannot prove.
- Bill King



Compassion and mercy warm the human soul like sunshine and summer breezes warm the human

body.
- Bill King



Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
from An Essay on Criticism (1711)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)



What would God say if He were still on speaking terms with man?
- Bill King



Both read the Bible day and night,
But you read black where I read white.
from The Everlasting Gospel
William Blake (1757-1827)



Whisper of dreams and hopes to me,
For these are the permanent things.
- Bill King



Choose your beliefs as carefully as your earthly treasures
and you can never be poor.
- Bill King



LORD, keep me from the things I want and grant me what you think I need.
My Life's Prayer - Bill King



Daily I compose
a symphony in my mind
that changes with each playing,
But God has written
the melody, harmony and
lyrics on my heart,
Here they are still,
constantly at rest and
cannot be changed.

Symphony of Infinity
- Bill King



A snowstorm is the chalkdust from heavenly handwriting.
- Bill King



Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever;
Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make Life and Death, and that For Ever,
One grand sweet song.
from A Farewell to C. E. G.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)



Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
A Child's Bedtime Prayer
taken from The New England Primer (1784)
earliest known version is by Enchiridion Leonis (1160)



Sing a song of innocence,
With a joy-filled melody,
a happy heart-felt harmony,
and lyrics that vibrate with love.
Melody, Harmony, Love
- Bill King



A memory is a wish
cast adrift on a sea of dreams,
It's the silky wings of hope
travelling aloft on the breeze of possibilities.
A memory is the world as
you want it to be,
A vision of some cherished moment
no one else can see.
What Is A Memory?
- Bill King, 1993



Fantasy tells us every wish will come true,
Magic says we can make it come true,
Reality proves every wish does not necessarily come true,
Life is not a fairy tale and magic is only from Hollywood,
The real thing requires patience and determination,
Grit and persistence, desire and vigor,
All applied in very liberal doses.
- Bill King, 1994



Ideas are wings that take flight only when they fly into the winds of inspiration.
- Bill King



Stars are the gleam, glitter and glimmer in God's eyes.
- Bill King



All Creation is a canvas of green and gold
Covered over with a canopy of blue and white.
- Bill King



A sunbeam bouncing off a drop of dew,
The gleam in a child's eye,
The twinkle of a particularly bright star,
The tear stained cheek of a mother praying for her children,
And the ripple formed by a droplet of rain in a puddle,
All of these combine to form the Glitter in the Eyes of God.
The Glitter in God's Eyes
- Bill King, 1993



While the memory of the mind is only a flickering candle
The human heart burns on forever;
For some as a hard black lump of anthracite coal,
And for others as a blazing white crystalline diamond.
Diamonds or Coal?
- Bill King, 1993



A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.
from an old Nursery Rhyme


Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
Three mice ran up the clock,
The clock struck one and
That mouse hired a good personal injury attorney
And sued for assault-and-battery.
A Surprised Mother Goose
- Bill King



The heart filled with hope can never die, for hope lives on forever.
- Bill King



A book that furnishes no quotations is not a book, it's a plaything.
Crochet Castle (1831) Chapter 9
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)



Unbridled joy is hope with even the slightest doubt removed.
- Bill King



Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real, life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal,
Dust you are, to dust returnest,
Was not said about the soul.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time.

from A Psalm of Life (1839)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882),
adapted by Bill King




I believe firmly in tomorrow.
Yesterday wasn't so great and
things aren't looking too good for today either...
- Bill King

What you see reflected in a child's eyes are all of the hopes and dreams you started out with so

many years ago...
- Bill King

I may not have much but then again I don't have to worry about insurance or fixing things that

break...
- Bill King

Heartbreak is another name for The Golden Years...
- Bill King

If I did not know Hope and Faith I would not know their sister Joy...
- Bill King

Pottery breaks, faith doesn't. Place your trust in heavenly things and not the things of earth...
- Bill King

I have trouble remembering my dreams but I recognize them when they come true...
- Bill King

Soon my journey will be finished but the great adventure will have just begun...
- Bill King

The story of Jesus is called The Greatest Story Ever Told. Notice that it isn't called The Greatest

Fairytale Ever Told or The Greatest Myth Ever Told. It is a story just like all of history is a

collection of stories, all written by men who weren't eyewitnesses to the events. The four men

named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were eyewitnesses to this story - the Story of Jesus, a true

story...
- Bill King

Beauty is only skin deep and most times it isn't even found in skin... Man looks on the outside,

God looks on the heart...
- Bill King and The Holy Bible

Tell me the old, old story. Write on my heart every word.

Thy WORD have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee...

If I seem deeply religious I have failed. If I seem deeply faithful I have succeeded...
- Bill King

I am not concerned about my children. They are on loan from God. They are in far greater hands

than I could ever provide.
- Bill King



For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been.'
from Maud Muller (1856) by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)



I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
(R. Cook/R. Greenway/B. Backer/B. Davis)

I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow-white turtle doves

Chorus:
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
(That's the song I hear)
I'd like to see the world for once
(Let the world sing today)
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
That's the song I hear
(That's the song I hear)
Let the world sing today
(Let the whole wide world keep singing)
A song of peace that echoes on
And never goes away

(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)

Put your hand in my hand
Let's begin today
Put your hand in my hand
Help me find a way

(Repeat Chorus til fade)



The Greatest Love Of All
(L. Creed/M. Masser)
[Ed. note: Personally I don't believe
'loving yourself' is the Greatest Love of All
as this song implies. The greatest love of all
is to sacrifice your happiness or needs for
someone else, then and only then can you
find true peace and happiness. This is the
love espoused by Jesus Christ, truly the
Greatest Love of All. But this song has
some nice sentiments to it.]

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride
To make it easier
Let the children's laughter
Remind us how we used to be

Everybody's searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfilled my need
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

Chorus:
I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadow
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I lived as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love others
Is the greatest love of all

(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)

And if by chance that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love



The Love of Jesus
Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915)

Jesus loves me - this I know,
For the Bible tells me so,
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells me so.




The Hallelujah Chorus
George Frederich Handel

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

The kingdom of this world is become
the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and of His Christ;
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever

King of Kings,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
and Lord of Lords,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

King of Kings,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
and Lord of Lords,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

King of Kings,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
and Lord of Lords,
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

King of Kings, and Lord of Lords,
and He shall reign for ever and ever
and He shall reign for ever and ever

King of Kings
for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

and He shall reign for ever and ever,
for ever and ever,
King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords,
King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords,
and He shall reign for ever and ever,

King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!




Remember, the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks and lilies for instance.
The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin (1819-1900)


You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it
than you do to consume wealth without producing it.
from Candida (1898) Act I
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)



There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it.
Man and Superman (1903) Act IV
George Bernard Shaw



'Who will exchange old lamps for new?'
The Arabian Nights or 1,001 Nights Entertainment
The History of Aladdin


Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Three Monkeys carved over door of
the Sacred Stable in Nikko, Japan
a Japanese legend



All the brothers were valiant,
and all the sisters virtuous.
Inscription on
the Duchess of Newcastle's tomb
in Westminster Abbey (1673)



Speak in silver, reply in gold.
Ancient Swahili saying


The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
from Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost



King Winter's in the wood,
I saw him go,
Crowned with a coronet,
Of crystal snow.
Eileen Mathias



Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet:
there's always one determined to face in an
opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox


Children are our immortality;
in them we see the story of our life
rewritten in a fairer hand.
Alfred North Whitehead



The circus is a place where horses,
ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Ambrose Bierce



Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing,

stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed,

people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues.

The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.
Will Durant, author (with wife Ariel Durant)
of The History of Civilization



Failure is God's own tool for carving some of
the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin



Memory is what God gave us
so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie, English playwright,
Author of Peter and Wendy,
which later became Peter Pan



The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
from The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900)
Colonel Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919),
changed to 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road'
in the movie version by the same name (1939)


Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Dorothy to her dog Toto in the movie
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) starring Judy Garland



Somewhere, over the rainbow Bluebirds fly,
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
lyrics from 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' sung in
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) by Judy Garland



"Curioser and Curioser!" cried Alice.
from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)



When the baby laughed for the first time,
the laugh broke into a thousand pieces
and they all went skipping about,
and that was the beginning of fairies.
from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)



Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies'
there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)



Do you believe in fairies, if you do then clap your hands.
from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)



Imagination creates reality.
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner



Love the true because it is also the beautiful.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres





There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother
Abraham Lincoln

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare

Innocence plays in the backyard, ignorance plays in the front.
Bill King

Being sorry is good, being innocent is perfect.
Bill King

Ignorance is sin and innocence is not.
Bill King after Robert Browning

Innocence is an incredible perfume.
Bill King

Innocence charms us, ignorance offends us.
Bill King after M. McLaughlin

Innocence in thinking is like noblesse oblige is to politics.
Bill King

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory
Mahatma Gandhi

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to

believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end
Lise Hand

It's the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the

essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon.
Patricia Linden

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
James Arthur Baldwin

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius

Heaven lives at the feet of mothers
Muhammad

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
Jane Ann Taylor

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
Anonymous

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

A Mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever
Unknown

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot

A mother understands what a child does not say.
Anonymous

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln

Men are what their mothers made them
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling

My mother is a walking miracle...
Leonardo DiCaprio

All mothers are working mothers
Unknown

Oh, Mother, you go home too early!
Edward Albee

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking,
it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking
Helen Steiner Rice

I really learned it all from mothers.
Benjamin Spock

Step on a crack; break your mother's back
American Proverb

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

Even children of the same mother look different
Anonymous

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one
Jill Churchill

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
Kahlil Gibran

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
[Ed. note: Now, isn't that sad on both accounts.]
Clarence S. Darrow

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Anonymous

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
Douglas Feaver

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch

All the people like us are We,
and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling

Teach us delight in simple things, and joy that has no bitter springs
Rudyard Kipling [adapted by JWK, joy sub for mirth]

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations -
as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors
Rudyard Kipling

All we have of freedom - all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
Rudyard Kipling

I keep six honest serving men:
They taught me all I knew:
Their names are What and Why
and When and How
and Where and Who
Rudyard Kipling


HELLO YOUNG LOVERS
Music by Richard Rodgers
Words by Oscar Hammerstein

Hello, young lovers, whoever you are,
I hope that your troubles are few;
All my good wishes go with you tonight -
I've been in love like you.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star;
Be brave and faithful and true.
Cling very close to each other tonight -
I've been in love like you.

(Bridge:)
I know how it feels to have wings on your heels
And to fly down the street in a trance;
You fly down the street on a chance that you'll meet,
And you meet not really by chance.

Don't cry, young lovers, whatever you do,
Don't cry because I'm alone;
All of my mem'ries are happy tonight -
I've had a love of my own.

(Coda:)
I've had a love of my own, like yours,
I've had a love of my own.