Quotes About Appreciation

I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

Ah! I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Ain't she the snail's ankles?' asked Mr da Soto admiringly.

I'm sorry,' said Wimsey. 'It fascinates me. I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf round and watch another bloke doing a job of work.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

The ideal way to live would be always to treat each day, each encounter with loved ones, as one's last. Only thus could one avoid the endless self-reproach, self-recrimination, with which so many flagellate themselves after a sudden loss.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

So long and thanks for all the fish. In

It is most gratifying that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated. As a token of our appreciation, we hope you will enjoy the two thermonuclear missiles we've just sent to converge with your craft. To ensure ongoing quality of service, your death may be monitored for training purposes. Thank you.

Zbogom, i hvala za svu tu ribu!

I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually about lunchtime. After

Hey, kid, you just saved our lives, you know that? Oh, well, it was nothing really... Was it? Oh well, forget it then

As dramatic seas of light went, it was fine, but light is meant to illuminate something, and having driven through what this particularly dramatic sea of light was illuminating they didn't think much of it.

Buz dolab?na adeta dans ederek gitti, içindeki aç?s?ndan en az tüylü üç ÅŸeyi buldu ve onlar? bir tabaÄŸa koyarak iki dakika boyunca dikkatle izledi. Bu süre içinde hareket etmek için herhangi bir giriÅŸimde bulunmad?klar?ndan dolay? onlar? kahvalt? oalrak adland?rd? ve yedi.

After a while I had to admit that the forest wasn't that bad. Cold, wet and slippery, and continually trying to wrench my legs off at the knees with some bloody tangled root or other, but it also had a kind of fresh glistening quality that wouldn't go away however much I glowered at it.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Very nice,' said Arthur. 'Wonderfully nice. I don't know when I've ever been anywhere nicer. I'm happy here. They like me, I make sandwiches for them, and . . . er, well that's it really. They like me and I make sandwiches for them.' 'Sounds, er . . .' 'Idyllic,' said Arthur, firmly. 'It is. It really is. I don't expect you'd like it very much, but for me it's, well, it's perfect.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? All

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way. Happiness only happens for those who cry and those who hurt, for only then can they appreciate the importance of people who touch their lives.

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.