Felix the Cat (Feline Follies)
Showing posts with label Felix the Cat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Felix the Cat. Show all posts
4.01.2007
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A little hobby of mine; which gives me a strange feeling of satisfaction; mainly upon discovery. Displaced from their original context I would imagine they seem obscure. Much of the revelevance of the quote and the significance of the use of the word folly is lost. Yet still I persist; and this blog provides me with a means of storage and arrangement.
Of particular interest
Most Quoted
Quoted
- A. E. Housman (1)
- Abu Bakr (1)
- Adam Smith (2)
- Alcaeus (1)
- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1)
- Alexander Pope (2)
- Ambrose Bierce (2)
- Anatole France (1)
- Anthony Hope (1)
- Barbara Jones (5)
- Benjamin Franklin (2)
- Chambers English Dictionary (1)
- Chesterfield (1)
- David Hockney (1)
- Dictionary (6)
- drawing (1)
- Eccentric Britain (1)
- Edward Gibbon (1)
- Erasmus (2)
- f (12)
- Fanny Burney (1)
- Felix the Cat (1)
- Folly Book (17)
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1)
- François-René de Chateaubriand (1)
- Friedrich von Schiller (1)
- George Ade (1)
- George Bernard Shaw (1)
- George Eliot (1)
- Gwyn Headley and Wym Meulenkamp (2)
- H. L. Mencken (1)
- Hans Holbein (2)
- Helen Rowland (1)
- Herbert Spencer (1)
- heritage.co.uk (2)
- Hilaire Belloc (1)
- Homer (1)
- Horace (3)
- Isaac Asimov (1)
- Izaak Walton (1)
- Jane Austen (3)
- John Lancaster Spalding (1)
- John Milton (1)
- John Quincy Adams (1)
- John Stuart Mill. (1)
- Jonathan Swift (1)
- Joseph Addison (1)
- Josh Billings (1)
- Lord Byron (1)
- Lord Chesterfield (1)
- m (81)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (1)
- Mary Ann Cross (1)
- Matthew Arnold (1)
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (1)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1)
- Oliver Goldsmith (2)
- Oxford Dictionary (2)
- Paul Valery (1)
- Peter Acrkroyd (1)
- Publilius Syrus (1)
- Richard Cecil (1)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1)
- Samuel Johnson (1)
- Shakespeare (4)
- Sir (7)
- Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1)
- Sir Hugh Casson (6)
- Stuart Barton (2)
- The Bhagavad Gita (1)
- The Bible (1)
- The Folly Fellowship (3)
- The Forbidden Corner (1)
- Thomas Carlyle (1)
- Thomas Gray (1)
- Thomas H. Huxley (1)
- W. B. Yeats (1)
- W. G. Sebald (1)
- Wilhelm Canaris (1)
- William Blake (3)
- William Faulkner (1)
- William Hogarth (1)
- Winston Churchill (2)
Past Posts
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2007
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May
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08/05
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- You never see animals going through the absurd and...
- Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the...
- Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we ...
- Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Igno...
- I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifferen...
- Beauty and folly are old companions.Benjamin Franklin
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08/05
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May
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Little links
- A 20th Century folly - by a retired art teacher
- A French folly
- Follies and Monuments
- Follies in German
- odd-stuff.com
- Subterranea Britannica - society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places.
- The Folly Fellowship
- Folly Fellowship quoted
- The Mausolea & Monuments Trust
