@He told me it was artificial respiration. Now I find I am to have a child,'

[Sandy-Wroe]

Is one of my favourite lines from a book by Anthony Burgess. Do you have a favourite quote?

[MarkRae]

The clock is ticking slowly on the wing commander's wall
Every hour it chimes our fate, a summons for us all
Take your bread and water but take care to wash your hands
It's far too late tomorrow if no-one understands

[askyourgran]

Not exactly a favourite but it has stuck in my mind. I can't remember the title of the book or the author, from a long time ago about someone who has to break a piggybank open to get to the money. and the rhyme inside the piggybank says,

"I will love you while living and worship you dead
but not if this rhyme you see,
For the thought will always stay in my head.
That you love money more than me".

Poor soul absolutely skint and then he sees the rhyme!

I do have some favourite poetry.

[fethers]

The preggy girls prayer

I am sorry for what I did last night
It was that last drink that confused me
Make me like I was before
Please dear lord unscrew me

Congradulations

[Zeuhl]

Here's another from Burgess.

Possibly one of the most noteable opening lines to a novel ever:

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

(Earthly Powers 1980)

[missnemesis]

"A hospital alone shows what war is."

from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

Perhaps our mp's should do a bit more visiting.