Thursday, December 29. 2005
When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale. G.K. Chesterton
Tuesday, December 27. 2005
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. Anon.
Friday, December 23. 2005
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. Garrison Keillor
Wednesday, December 21. 2005
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes an ability to execute, military plans. Niccolo Machiavelli
Tuesday, December 20. 2005
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain
Friday, December 16. 2005
Man can believe the impossible but never the improbable. Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, December 14. 2005
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. Bette Davis
Tuesday, December 13. 2005
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Monday, December 12. 2005
A Slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts. Euripides
Friday, December 9. 2005
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen
Wednesday, December 7. 2005
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of Creation. Sigmund Freud
Tuesday, December 6. 2005
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves. Thomas Sowell
Monday, December 5. 2005
Man errs as long as he strives. Goethe
Friday, December 2. 2005
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Charles Dickens
Wednesday, November 30. 2005
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them. G.K. Chesterton
Tuesday, November 29. 2005
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC)
Monday, November 28. 2005
Ignorance is preferable to error. He is less remote from truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson(Thanks, Paxety, who let us share his collection of favorite quotes.)
Sunday, November 27. 2005
Matthew 17:20 I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move.
Friday, November 25. 2005
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Wednesday, November 23. 2005
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anon.
Tuesday, November 22. 2005
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
Monday, November 21. 2005
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 - 180)
Friday, November 18. 2005
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. WS, As You Like It
Wednesday, November 16. 2005
To insist that diligent thought would bring an understanding of change was to limit life to the comprehensible. William Least Heat Moon, as quoted last week here, from Blue Highways.
Tuesday, November 15. 2005
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Robert Heinlein (in his book, "Logic of Empire")
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