Quote from a conversation with Penfold, who's a hero!

"Don't make a molehill out of an elephant."

"Was the pasta supposed to be boiling over?"

Er... no. Probably not...

*blushes*

"Quand on fait ce qu'on peut, on fait ce qu'on doit."

Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701)

Made me think of Penny's post on writting.

"Some people bring joy whereever they go, others whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde

P.S. I don't guarantee I got this quote entirely right. I wrote it up from memory. ;-)

"Nuestra cabeza es redonda para permitir al pensamiento cambiar de dirección."

Francis Martínez de Picabia

So can you understand that yet, eudesia? ;-)

"Meglio vulgare ma felice che elegante e noioso."

(Gianni Versace)

That tickled me this morning. :-D

"El problema de la juventud de hoy es ya no forma uno parte del ella." (Salvador Dali)

(Probably misspelled a bit and all... but it's supposed to mean: "The problem with the youth of today is that one longer forms a part of it.")

"Me gusto vivir pobre, pero con mucho dinero."

Pablo Picasso

("It pleases me to live in poverty, but with a lot of money.")

"La liberté est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent."

De Secondat Montesquieu

"Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round." (David Lodge)