The Pawsibilities are bunnie boggoling!©

Grampaw Sunnie c 1989, 1997 Sunnie BunnieZZ

Once Upon this BunnieZZ Paws . . .©

Grammaw Hunnie c 1989, 1997 SunnieunnieZZ

I carrot not what Bunny Burrows can do for me, but what I can do in Bunny Burrows.©

Grampaw Sunnie c 1989, 1997 Sunnie BunnieZZ

If wishes were horses, horses would be Unicorns.

Elizabeth A. Mihailovs

It is better to have and not need, than need and not have!

Elizabeth A. Mihailovs

The following Quotations can be found in Microsoft Encarta 1997 licensed from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations copyright © 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting by myself with a little book.

Thomas a`Kempis (attributed to) ( 1380-14710), German monk, mystic. The Imitation of Christ, preface to 1617 ed., inscribed on his picture at Zwoll, Holland, where he is buried.

The proper study of Mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley, British writer.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Richelieu 1839

Laws Die, Books Never.

Act 1 Richelieu 1839.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky (1848-1896), U.S. poet, critic. At Press Conference, Washington, D.C., on acceptance of U.S. poet laureateship. Quoted in: Independent on Sunday (London, 19 May 1991).

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902), English author. Samuel Butler's Notebooks (1951, p. 266).

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian. On Heroes and Hero-Worship, Lecture 5. "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer. Daddy, We hardly Knew You, "Still In Melbourne, January 1987" (1989).

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller (1880 -1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The study of my life, pt. 1, ch. 21 (1903).

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Pisam cantos, cto. 74 (1948).

Reading maketh a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Studies" (1597-1625).

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author, lexicographer. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 6 April 1775 (1791).

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Lord Bougham (1778-1868), Scottish Whig politician. Speech, 29 Jan. 1828, to the House of Commons.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher, critic, writer. Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, "Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum," aph. 63 (1968; first published 1798).

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist. Spectator, no. 215 (London, 6 Nov. 1711).

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Allan Bloom (1930-1992), US educator, author. The closing of the American Mind, Preface (1987).

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key (1849-1926), Swedish Author, feminist. The Mortality of Woman and other essays, "the conventional Woman" (1911).

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams, U.S. Historian, Chapter 20 The Education of Henry Adams (1907).

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Henri-Fre`der`ic Amiel (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher, poet. Journal Intime (1882;tr. by Mrs. Humphry Ward, 1892), entry for 16 Nov. 1864.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), U.S. physicist.Motto for the astronomy building of Junior College, Pasadena, California.

Every man is a quotation of his ancestors.

Plato on the Philosopher.