Basil Rathbone famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

  • There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  • Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

  • Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  • A divided heart loses both worlds.

  • Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

  • Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  • His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

  • Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

  • The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.