“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” — Samuel Butler
Quotations
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“There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.” — Emerson
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“See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?” — Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
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“We are rarely proud when we are alone.” — Voltaire
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“Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.” — W.H. Auden
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“Hell is full of musical amateurs.” — George Bernard Shaw
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“There is no worse robber than a bad book.” — Italian saying
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“Madam, there’s no such thing as a tough child — if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.” — W.C. Fields
Train Wreck
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
A Literary Knight’s Tour
The knight’s tour is a recreation familiar to chessplayers: Move a knight about an empty chessboard so as to visit each square exactly once.
On this board, each square contains a syllable. Collect them in the right order and you’ll compose a six-line quotation from Shakespeare. What is it?
(Hint: Start on e4, “to”.)
