Ten great quotes or proverbs

1.There is no denying the fact that writers should be read but not seen.Rarely are they a winsome sight.-Edna Ferber
2.Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon memory.-Denis Diderot
3.Words are vehicles that can transport us from the drab sands to the dazzling stars.-M.Robert Syme
4.Write on a subject you love.Your profit center should also be your passion center.-Dan Poynter
5.In writing fiction,the more fantastic the tale,the plainer the prose should be.Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.-Ben Bova
6.Never give advice unless asked.-German proverb
7.If you describe things as better than they are,you are considered a romantic;if you describe things as worse than they are,you are called a realist;and if you describe things exactly as they are,you are thought of as a satirist.-Quentin Crisp
8.Before the world finds a place for you,find a place for yourself in the world.-Anonymous
9.To open a shop is easy,to keep it open is an art.-Chinese proverb
10.Words form the threads on which we string our experiences.-Aldous Huxley

The three best olive oil brands that I have bought and consumed

I have bought 1 litre or 750 ml olive oil bottles of many different brands over the last five or six years.I started buying olive oil in 1999.
The three best-tasting olive oil brands that I have consumed are:
1.Rusinella
2.Mastro
3.Bellino.
All of the above three olive oils are imported from Italy.

A fresh batch of quotes and proverbs

1.We don't know who discovered water,but we are certain it wasn't a fish.-John Culkin
2.It's my heart that makes my songs,not I.-Sara Teasdale
3.All there is is sitting down to work and trusting that the ignition key still turns everything on.-Peter Straub
4.When you go in search of honey,you must expect to be stung by bees.-Joseph Joubert,French essayist
5.People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves.If nobody invents you for yourself,nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.-John Le Carre(on unhappy children becoming happy adults).
6.Variability is one of the virtues of a woman.It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy.So long as you have a good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.-G.K.Chesterton on ''Spiritual Polygamy.''
7.Work isn't to make money;you work to justify life.-Mark Chagall
8.That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,ON HYPOCRISY
9.Tens of thousands of bones will become ashes when one general achieves his fame.-Ancient Chinese proverb
10.Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts.-Chinese proverb
11.Kwitchyerbellyakin.-Irish saying
12.Never fall out with your bread and butter.-English proverb

An octet of quotes and proverbs

1.The crux ---is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.-William J.Broad
2.Do not judge matters from a single occurrence.-Chinese proverb
3.Money lent to a friend must be recovered from an enemy.-German proverb
4.The e-mail of the species is deadlier than the mail.-Stephen Fry
5.The nail that sticks out is hammered down.-Japanese proverb
6.Success is the result of spontaneous combustion.You must set yourself on fire.-Reggie Leach
7.I always know the ending;that's where I start.-Toni Morrison
8.It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly;it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.-George Gissing(1857-1903)

A sextet of quotes

1.I didn't attend the funeral,but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.-Mark Twain
2.Trust your demon.-Roger Zelazny
3.To understand just one life,you have to swallow the world.-Salman Rushdie
4.Things happen before one can give them a name.-Carlos Fuentes
5.What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and builds to a climax.-Samuel Goldwyn
6.Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.-Jules Renard

A collection of quotes and proverbs

1.Man discovers he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.-Sir Julian Huxley,THE HUMANIST FRAME,1959.
2.Only an empty bottle can be filled.-From Questions to A Zen Master
3.Inspiration far more often comes during the work than before it.-Madeleine L'Engle
4.The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.-Flannery O'Connor

A trio of good quotes

1.Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.Insiration far more often comes during the work than before it.-Madeleine L'Engle
3.People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.-George Orwell

An octet of quotes and proverbs

1.While Darwinian man,though well-behaved,At best is only a monkey shaved.-W.S.Gilbert(1836-1911)
2.From the point of view of a tapeworm,man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tameworm.-Edward Abbey
3.The adjective is the enemy of the noun.-Voltaire
4.When you catch an adjective,kill it.-Mark Twain
5.A genius is a genius even when he does not work.-Pablo Picasso
6.When the dream is big enough,the odds don't matter.-Chuck Yeager
7.Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.-Black Elk
8.The world breaks everyone,but some are stronger at the broken places.-Ernest Hemmingway

A quintet of fine quotes or proverbs

1.The best writing is re-writing.-E.B.White
2.Who hears the fishes when they cry?It will not be forgotten by some memory that we were contemporaries.-Henry David Thoreau
3.On the plus side,death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.-Woody Allen
4.Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.-E.L.Doctorow
5.There are no true friends in politics.We are all sharks circling,and waiting,for traces of blood to appear in the water.-Alan Clark

A Quartet of proverbs and quotes

1.We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.-Virginia Satir
2.Love makes time pass;time makes love pass.-French proverb
3.The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.-Leo Rosten
4.Writing is not a profession,ccupation or job;it is not a way of life:it is a comprehensive response to life.-Gregory McDonald

Some great quotes and proverbs

1.Economize now or suffer want later.-Chinese proverb
2.Money cannot buy you love,but it sure as hell buys you great shoes.-Katie Hopkins,31,a celebrity on British reality Tv.
3.If one eats less,one will taste more.-Chinese proverb
4.When you arise in the morning,think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive,to breathe,to think,to enjoy,to love.-Marcus Aurelius
5.Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.-Russian proverb
6.If you want to truly understand something,try to change it.-Kurt Lewin
7.He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.-Chinese proverb
8.Writing a book is like driving a car at night.You can only see as far as your headlights go,but you can make the whole trip that way.-E.L.Doctorow
9.Sex without love is an empty experience,but as empty experiences go,it's one of the best.-Woody Allen
10.The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.-Marcus Aurelius,quoted in THE WASHINGTON POST.

Homicide statistics in Canada

In 2005 there were 663 homicides in Canada.In 2006 there were 605 homicides in Canada.83% of the homicides in Canada in 2006 were commited by people who knew the victim.

A Dilly-dally of quotes and proverbs

1.Writing doesn't get easier with experience.The more you know ,the harder it is to write.-Tim O'Brien
2.To hold a pen is to be at war.-Voltaire
3.To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity.To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.-Arthur Schopenhauer(1788-1860)
4.It is the end that crowns us,not the fight.-Robert Herrick

A bucket of quotes and proverbs

1.I'm not crazy----I've just been in a bad mood for 40 years.-Shirley McClaine in the film STEEL MAGNOLIAS.
2.The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.-George Bernard Shaw
3.Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality in the stomach.-Victor Hugo in Les Miserables
4.The wise see knowledge and action as one;they see truly.-Bhagavad Gita
5.If you do not strike back at him who hurts you,there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.-Russian proverb
6.It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.-Logan Pearsall Smith
7.If you would be pope,you must think of nothing else.-Spanish proverb
8.To fall in love is easy,even to remain in it is not difficult;our human loneliness is cause enough.But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one
becomes steadily the person one desires to be.-Anna Louise Strong
9.I am not afraid of tomorrow,for I have seen yesterday and I love today.-Anonymous
10.Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.-English proverb
11.That is what learning is.You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life,but in a new way.-Doris Lessing
12.A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas:there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life.The reflections of the moon and one thousand rivers are from the same moon:the mind must be full of light.-Hung Tzu-Ch'eng

A chute of quotes and proverbs

1.One monk shoulders water by himself;two can still share the labor among them.When it comes to three,they have to go thirsty.-Chinese proverb
2.Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.-Edmund Burke
3.Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality.It's part of the fizzle.-Camille Paglia
4.An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.-Chinese proverb
5.Draw in the breath of life,and as you breathe,smile.-Anonymous
6.It is not a fish until it is on the bank.-Irish proverb

Great letter from the Montreal Gazette

Ban Queen in ORs.
Re:''Songs you don't want to hear in the OR''(Gazette,Oct 6).
Should I require surgery I would definitely not want to see Queen's Another One Bites the Dust on the surgeon's playlist.
-Charles Mackay,St.-Eustache,Letter to editor,
MONTREAL GAZETTE,Oct 10,2007

A manna of quotes and proverbs

1.A bridge never crossed is like a life never lived.-Chinese proverb
2.Flowers are the poetry of earth,as stars are the poetry of heaven.-Anonymous
3.He who knows little quickly tells it.-Italian proverb
4.Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.-Pete Hamill
5.Do the work you love or love the work you do.-Anonymous
6.Killing time murders opportunities.-Anonymous
7.Love the life you live and you will live the life you love.-Anonymous
8.Work is not a shame.Laziness is a shame.-Hesiod
9.To lose is to learn.-Anonymous
10.Fear is the highest fence.-Dudley Nichols

A delivery of more quotes and proverbs

1.What I like in a good author is not what he says,but what he whispers.-Logan Pearsall Smith
2.Perfectionism is slow death.-Hugh Prather

A bundle of quotes and proverbs

1.Writing is a struggle against silence.-Carlos Fuentes
2.He who must die,must die in the dark,even though he sells candles.-Colombian proverb
3.When a man boasts about what he'll do tomorrow we like to find out what he did yesterday.-Anonymous
4.The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.-Chinese proverb
5.Some days you're the dog,some days you're the hydrant.
6.We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.-Ernest Hemmingway
7.Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance,if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.-Thomas Gray,1768
8.He who carves the Buddha never worships him.-Chinese proverb
9.A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.-Jebodiah Springfield
10.Great souls have wills;feeble ones have wishes.-Chinese proverb

A Fizzle of quotes and proverbs

1.People think I have an interesting walk.Hell,I'm just trying to hold my gut in.-Robert Mitchum
2.The Eskimos had fifty-two namesfor snow because it was important to them:there ought to be as many for love.-Margaret Atwood
3.May a happy star always light your path.-Chinese proverb
4.Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.-Plato
5.There is something in October that sets the gypsy blood astir.-William Bliss Carman