Wisdom from Roald Dahl
Good advice for hard times
Shakespeare calendar
100

"Down with children! Do them in! Boil their bones and fry their skin! Bish them, squish them, bash them, mash them! Break them, shake them, slash them. smash them!"

The  Witches

100

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill

100

"For never was a story of more woe than this of..."

Juliet and her Romeo

200

"A stodgy parent is not fun at all. What a child wants & deserves is a parent who is sparky."

Danny the Champion of the World

200

"A life spent making mistakes is not omly more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Show

200

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players."

As you like it

300

"Books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives."

Matilda

300

"The best portion of a good man's life - his little. nameless, unremembered acts of kindness."

William Wordsworth

300

"Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool."

Twelfth Night

400

"The sweet-shop of my dreams would be loaded from top to bottom with Caramel fudge, sherbet stuckers, russian toffee, sugar snorters & butter gumballs and thousands and thousands of other glorious things like that."

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

400

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that  you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

400

"Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues$Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."

The Merry Wives of Windsor

500

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

500

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

500

"To be or not to be, That is the question."

Hamlet

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