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| Butterfly Landing. . . . . Something to think about over tea Women You have got to be a Queen to get away with a hat like that. -- Anita Loos It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing. -- Alice Walker God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman. -- Adela Rogers St. Johns Most of us are familiar with the fragrant rosemary herb, whose name means "dew of the sea." But did you know that it is said that where a healthy, hearty rosemary plant grows, there lives a strong woman? -- www.care2.com Women and cats will do as they please ... men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. -- Will Rogers |
Men Men who never get carried away should be. -- Malcolm Forbes Parenting Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. --Ogden Nash Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. -- David Lodge |
Self, Goals Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. --Albert Schweitzer Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. -- Robert Orben If A equals success, then the formula for success is A = X + Y + Z where X = Hard Work, Y = Play, and Z = Keep your mouth shut. -- Albert Einstein Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -- Joseph Addison, writer (1672-1719) To kill time is not murder, it's suicide. -- William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910) Remember: Life is good on this day, regardless of the circumstances; because the imagination is more powerful than knowledge, so use it. There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. -- Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957) Leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring. -- Henri Frederic Amiel If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show. -- Russell HoHoban, "Amaryllis Night and Day" What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowfoot, Native American warrior and orator (1821-1890) "I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living that one needs. -- Lin Yutang Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later. -- Naomi Judd It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882) Poet Khalil Gibran said, "Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. -- Unknown Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. -- Buddha Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie. -- Dave Barry It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Old age by nature is rather talkative. -- Cicero, De Senectute It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. -- Dizzy Gillespie Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- General George S. Patton, Jr. Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit. -- Aristotle Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration. -- Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971) Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting. -- Billy Rose The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- H Norman Schwartzkoff Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. -- Carl Schurz We still dream what Adam dreamt. -- Victor Hugo To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first. And, whatever you hit, call it the target. -- Ashleigh Brilliant The sailor reaches his destination the moment the sails are raised. One road leads to London. One road runs to Wales. My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails. -- John Masefield |
Books, Language Words are slippery. -- Henry Adams Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. -- Robert Burchfield, lexicographer (1923-2004) No two persons ever read the same book. --Edmund Wilson, critic (1895-1972) Here is where people, / One frequently finds, / Lower their voices / And raise their minds. -Richard Armour, author, on libraries (1906-1989) Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it -- whole-heartedly -- and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch |
Politics "Practical politics," said Henry Adams, "consists in ignoring facts." If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. -- Age 15 That which deprives another cannot be beautiful. -- Wm. S. Coperthwaite Let's find out what everyone is doing, and then stop everyone from doing it. -- A.P. Herbert Whether elephants make love or war, it is the grass that suffers. -- Unknown Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. -- African proverb If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings'. -- Dave Barry A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. --Greek proverb |
Chocolate and Wine The most expensive bottle of wine is way out of most people's reach; the most expensive bottle of balsamic vinegar costs more than a thousand dollars. But the most expensive chocolate bar costs only $9. -- Clay Gordon, owner of chocophile.com What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" -- W.C. Fields |
Technology I'm sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if information is preserved there is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes. -- Dr. Stephen W. Hawking Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set. -- Raymond Thornton Chandler, writer (1888-1959) |
Gardens Gardens promise reincarnation. -- Diane Ackerman |
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Friendship A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. --unknown In anger, the tongue works faster than the mind. -- Unknown The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate; to include the excluded; and to say, 'I was wrong.' -- Unknown A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose. -- Chinese proverb We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other. -- Luciano DeCrescenzo Be conscious of who draws you and who not. -- Rumi A German proverb states, "When one helps another, both are strong." Love I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure as I had thought it was, Because it doth endure Vicissitude, and season, as the grasse. -- John Donne The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. --Mignon McLaughlin Ask the child why it is born, Ask the flower why it blossoms, Ask the sun why it shines; I love you because I must love you. -- George Upton |
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