Thornton Burgess Quotes

What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work.

That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people.

You don't know what you are talking about, and no one sounds so silly as one who tries to talk about something he knows nothing about.

They feared him, and because they feared him, they hated him. ....You see, they didn't understand that really he had one of the kindest hearts in the world; and he didn't understand that they hated him just because they didn't know him.

A good thing is good, but more than enough of a good thing is too much.

There is no place like a tree for comfort, safety and good living. I'm sorry for anyone who can't live in a tree.

Rabbit!

Bowser

Mrs. Bluebird, like most mothers, is altogether too busy to spend much time taking care of her clothes; and fine clothes need a lot of care,

They feared him, and because they feared him, they hated him.

Old Mother Nature's eyes twinkled. "It is often hard to believe things you know nothing about," said she.

A boasting tongue, as sure as fate,    Will trip its owner soon or late.

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they just didn't know

afraid of her.

trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots.

Who scorns the simple things of life 

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XV - Grandfather Frog Gives Up Hope XVI - The Merry Little Breezes Work Hard XVII - Striped Chipmunk Cuts the String XVIII - Grandfather Frog Hurries Away XIX - Grandfather Frog Jumps into More Trouble XX - Grandfather Frog Loses Heart XXI - The Merry Little Breezes Try to Comfort Grandfather Frog XXII - Grandfather Frog’s Troubles Grow XXIII - The Dear Old Smiling Pool Once More I

Luck never just happens. What people call bad luck is just the result of their own foolishness or carelessness or both, and what people call good luck is just the result of their own wisdom and carefulness and common sense.

Peter, I would hate to have Lightfoot try

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Have you seen Sally Sly the Cowbird around here this spring?" Peter nodded. "Yes," said he, "I have." "I'm sorry to hear it," declared Sunshine. "She made us a lot of trouble last year. But we fooled her." "How did you fool her?" asked Peter. Sunshine paused to pick a tiny worm from a leaf. "Well," said he, "she found our nest just after we had finished it and before Mrs. Sunshine had had a chance to lay an egg. Of course you know what she did." "I can guess," replied Peter. "She laid one of her own eggs in your nest." Sunshine stopped to pick two or three more worms from the leaves. "Yes," said he. "She did just that, the lazy good-for-nothing creature! But it didn't do her a bit of good, not a bit. That egg never hatched. We fooled her and that's what we'll do again if she repeats that trick this year." "What did you do, throw that egg out?" asked Peter. "No," replied Sunshine. "Our nest was too deep for us to get that egg out. We just made a second bottom in our nest right over that egg and built the sides of the nest a little higher. Then we took good care that she didn't have a chance to lay another egg in there.

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