This is just too much fun. I think I'll make my kids memorize a few of these, and then make a new rule that only insults of the Shakespearean variety be allowed in our home.
Thou vain flap-mouthed boar-pig!
[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.
(HT: Mental Multivitamin)
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That kind of genteel dialogue would sure beat the usual fare around here:
"Mom, [Bantam7] called me 'stupid,' " Chicklet4 shouts at me.
Bantam11, in an attempt to pacify her, says soothingly, "Then HE is stupid. He's stupid, and you're cute."
Chicklet4, mollified: "Actually, I'm pretty."
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"Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen." --Teresa of Avila
"Some things God can teach us only very slowly, at the pace of walking, the speed of life." --Arthur Paul Boers, The Way Is Made by Walking
"Some things God can teach us only very slowly, at the pace of walking, the speed of life." --Arthur Paul Boers, The Way Is Made by Walking
- At A Hen's Pace
- What does a hen do all day? Nothing but walk about in endless circles, pecking at this or that--yet she is one of the most creative and productive of God's creatures. Though my days may take me in circles, I pray for the daily fruitfulness of a hen as I nurture the four boys and two girls God has given us.
Quotes to Blog By
"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
~Theodore Roosevelt
"Reading makes a man full; conference makes a man ready; writing makes a man exact."
~Sir Francis Bacon
~Theodore Roosevelt
"Reading makes a man full; conference makes a man ready; writing makes a man exact."
~Sir Francis Bacon
O God, you have taught me since I was young, and to this day I tell of your wonderful works.
~Psalm 71:17
"No matter how many kids you might have, I am firmly convinced that a person can find the time to do the things they want to do."
~Dortha, in The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio
“Nothing has really happened unless its been described [in words]. Keep a diary. Don’t let a day pass without recording it, whether something interesting happens or not. Something interesting happens every day.”
~Virginia Woolf
"No matter how many kids you might have, I am firmly convinced that a person can find the time to do the things they want to do."
~Dortha, in The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio
“Nothing has really happened unless its been described [in words]. Keep a diary. Don’t let a day pass without recording it, whether something interesting happens or not. Something interesting happens every day.”
~Virginia Woolf
"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."
~Samuel Johnson
"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”
~E.M. Forster
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3 comments:
ooo, neat site! thanks for passing that along.
Jenny in Ca
Oy!!! That would surely make the insults heard at my house a little more tolerable; at the very least, a little more tolerable!!!
I love chicklet's unintentional whit. I remember this excersise in insults from highschool English class. Wonderful. I wish I was there to hear what they come up with.
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