“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”
Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
The New Road, ch. 23.
“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”
Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
James Grant Wilson (1832–1914) Union Army general
Preface to Poets & Poetry of Scotland Vol 1 , Blackie & Son , Edinburgh 1876
“Wear them, they will make you brave.”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“You can't make cheese from rats. … It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.”
Arthur M. Jolly (1969) American writer
Jenn Gunn, Act II, Scene 2
Long Joan Silver (2013)
“This winter
I hope you get a splinter
if you make a toboggan
and it is a mahog'un”
John Hegley (1953) British writer, musician and comedian
"Poem about not using tropical hardwoods because it diminishes the rain forests"
Glad To Wear Glasses (1990)
Xenophon book Cyropaedia
Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC
Nicola Sturgeon (1970) First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party
Scottish Lib Dem conference: Leader Tim Farron in staunch defence of EU https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-35674306 BBC News (27 February 2016) <br class="br">2016