Here's a chance to make your own thought. Just supply the missing word or words. My own answers are in Comment #1, below.
2. Let us learn humility from the sun, which, in all its glory, will yet give anyone the ---- of ---.
3. I remember this from childhood: that when I had done something to earn my parents' respect, I didn't want their un----------- ----.
4. I think all good people go to heaven. Churchgoers get preferred -------.
5. Try to do something each day that you would do if you didn't think it was too ----.
6. A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it's up to us whether it remains forever ---------.
7. Of the Seven Deadly Sins, Sloth is the only one I still have ------ for.
8. Why do they call them home fries when you never have them at ----?
9. How do you know you died? Well, I guess you start meeting people you thought were ----.
10. Having completed most of the book of life, I can tell you that the answers are not in the ----.
11. How often we overlook the happiness in our lives that it is not yet a ------.
12. No one is believed wise who is not believed to know more than he or she is ------.
13. Who would not be a little dishonest if there were such a thing as a little ----------.
14. Timely partings make ---- reunions.
15. I have made choices in life that would have been wise indeed had they been -------.
16. Perhaps dying is like dozing off in a chair, or perhaps it's like awakening in a chair to realize you ----- ---.
17. You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that -----.
18. Nothing unspoils a child like dumping him in a schoolyard of ------- children.
19. As important as penciling in each day a new page of your life story is to go over some previous page in ---.
20. (Pun) Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing and also the sonnet, "Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen", which some call Much ------- About - ---.
-- Robert Brault
23 comments:
1. innocent
2. time of day
3. unconditional love
4. parking
5. late
6. senseless
7. energy
8. home
9. dead
10. back
11. memory
12. saying
13. dishonesty
14. fond or happy
15. choices
16. dozed off
17. tired
18. spoiled (unspoiled?)
19. ink
20. Much Nothing About a Dew
I just found your blog the other day when I had googled for a quote to use on mine. What a treasure you are! I loved this exercise and thank you for including your readers and fans in your creativity! I enjoyed 'filling in the blanks!' Thanks!!
Fun idea. So you mind if I give this exercise to my sister to use with her honors English class? I have a feeling they'd enjoy it.
=)
Hi,
The exercise is fine and the twisting answers are brilliant as usual.
I enjoyed this immensely and found it a good exercise to include in one of our training programmes....with your permission of course.
It's a delight to see the way you share these fine points, keeping them fresh & tender Robert. There are hundreds looking for what you so generously present. Grateful
Linda,
Thanks for your gracious comment -- and a warm welcome!
Sue,
I'd be pleased beyond words to have the idea used in your sister's classroom, although she might choose to extend it to wiser quotes than mine.
salu,
Ah, my "twisting answers." No coincidence that the only dance I could do as a kid was The Twist.
khushi,
You have my full blessing to use the post, just how I'll leave to your considerable ingenuity.
Raj,
Yes, I've discovered through this blog that many people are looking. I just hope they find.
smiles all,
rb
If this were a test I would pass as I filled in with most of the same words as you. Now I have to go back and see if I can be more original - I will let you know if that happens. Thanks for the fun exercise and getting my brain in gear on this lovely morning.
How the heck do we come up with better answers? You are way too clever. I love no.20.
Marlene, Ken,
As Ken suggests, this was less a "Make Your Own Thought" contest than a "Match The Guru" contest. Marlene, congrats -- you'll have to get yourself a cave in the Himalayas.
Sooo glad you are back! Love your post.
Hi,
I jus' found your blog whilst searching for another an' I'm sooooo glad I found you. Sadly, when I tried to become a follower, I was given a message that the link was broken. Jus' thought you might like to know that you may be losin' followers because of a broken link. Please lemme' know if the capability of Following you becomes accessible because I wouln't wanna' miss any of your wunnerful pearls of wisdom. In the meantime, you are in my Favorites.
~ Yaya
Yaaaaay! You got it workin'. I am your newest follower. Thank you.
~ Yaya
Robert, you are indeed believed to know more than you are saying! I love your posts, and for the first time I differ from you: I do not think all good people go to heaven. In fact, I think none of us merit going, thus the Grace of God called Jesus Christ!
Can't wait for what's coming August 22nd!
Respect
Ilse
Lisa,
Glad to have you back, also.
Yaya,
I was sound asleep, so you solved your problem without any help from me (which is how all my readers solve their problems.)
Ilse,
Thanks for your kind assessment. It would be nice if living a good and meritorious life did guarantee salvation -- but that would be a bonus.
smiles,
rb
It is great to see you back and look at all those followers. I actually spend my time convincing the Lord and anyone else who will listen, that I am not that old!
Maxie,
Hi. Personally, the only thing I'm sure of is that it's too late to go before my time.
smiles,
rb
Oh! I just discovered you're back! :O)
I did pretty well with your little mind quiz...
Drop by my ZooLoo...I used you..again *Smiles
I've waited for this day all summer.
*myserendipity ~Ariana
Ariana,
Your latest use of my thoughts gives me actual joy. How I love the moody backdrop you've created for them. All that is missing from your shadowy landscape are the strains of "Mood Indigo."
Thank you! For your pleasure,I posted "Mood Indigo...on my ZooLoo :O)..and a tribute to you..for what you have given to so many of us:O)
Ariana
Love your blog!! I have one of your quotes on my blog and I wondered who this man was I was quoting so I googled your name and up popped your blog! Thanks!! So great!! Keep the creativity coming!! With a 'house full of toddlers and pets' how could I not quote you?
Robert ~ Thank you SO much for your words of wisdom, or as I often call them, " My seeds of inspiration". I have turned to your blog COUNTLESS times to look for advice, comfort, encouragement, and even a kick in the behind, if that is what I need. :) It seems that I ALWAYS find whatever I need to -- written on these pages ~ and I will never be able to tell you how thankful I am for that. I am in a business that requires ALL of me. I have to be strong enough to carry (emotionally)the people I work for and with, through what is often, the darkest time of their life. I have to give 100% of myself ALL of the time.In doing so, it is VERY easy to lose my connection to ME. I have been trying hard to not let that happen. Your Blog has become one of my greatest tools in learning how to take care of me. I can NEVER explain how much I have learned or how many ways you have inspired me ~ but I want you to know that YOU have made my world a better place to be. You have taught me that being everything to everybody comes at the cost of being nobody to yourself -- and who wants to be a nobody to anybody? Again, thank you is NOT enough -- but it is all that I have. Thank You.
As Always I Remain Respectfully Yours,
Tammy ( The Blonde Mortician)
Ariana,
In "Mood Indigo," you have returned to me so much more than I have given. Thank you.
Jen,
Thanks so much. It seems I had you in mind all along. As some old guy once said, "There are no strangers, just people you know whom you haven't met yet."
The Blonde Mortician,
Your letter does as much for me as I could ever do for you. I am so gratified that you find a consistent and useful thread in what I post. It's generous of you to share.
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