Six great quotes and proverbs

1.Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.-Jodie Foster
2.Life's most persistent and urgent question is ,What are you doing for others?-Martin Luther King Jr.
3.Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.-Chinese proverb
4.To write simply is as difficult as to be good.-W.Somerset Maugham
5.Make your life a mission----not an intermission.-Arnold Glasgow
6.You know how it is in the kids' book world:It's just bunny eat bunny.-Anonymous

A great search engine I use sometimes-www.mamma.com

I find the relatively new search engine www.mamma.com very good.I use it sometimes.It is behind Yahoo and Google in efficiency and usefulness,but sometimes the searches on www.mamma.com more fruitful and precise than those on Google or Yahoo.The search engine
'Mamma ' was invented and launched in Montreal a few years ago.I urge more net users to use it.

Six great quotes or proverbs

1.Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.-Chinese proverb
2.More unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connection unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never
naturally do so.-Samuel Butler(1835-1902)
3.Great poetry is always written by someone straining to go beyond what he can do.-Stephen Spender
4.Our fearsome gods have only changed their names :They now rhyme with'-ism.'-Carl Jung
5.If you are patient in a moment of anger,you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.-Chinese proverb
6.A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.-Dutch proverb

Five great quotes or proverbs for Sunday

1.A good title should be like a metaphor.It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.-Walker Percy
2.Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense,and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.-Oscar Wilde,THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
3.Dismantle the bridge shortly after crossing it.-Chinese proverb
4.If you suspect a man,don't employ him,and if you employ him,don't suspect him.-Chinese proverb
5.My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.-Faye Wattleton

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.I myself prefer to laugh,since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.-Kurt Vonnegut
2.Writing is the only profession where nooone considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.-Jules Renard
3.If you can't go over,you must go under.-Jewish proverb
4.No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it.-Seneca The Younger
5.Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish-too much handling will spoil it.-Chinese proverb

Statistics on Canadian homicides

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 committed by people who knew the victim.

Eight great quotes and proverbs for Thursday

1.Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.-Marianne Moore
2.In prosperity our friends know us;in adversity we know our friends.-John Churton Collins
3.You teach best what you most need to learn.-Richard Bach,ILLUSIONS
4.Patience is a tree with bitter roots that bears sweet fruits.-Chinese proverb
5.If heaven made him ,earth can find some use for him.-Chinese proverb
6.We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.As in filling a vessel drop by drop,there is at last a drop which makes it run over,so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.-Samuel Johnson
7.When our dreams tire,they go underground
And out of kindness that's where they stay.-British poet and botanist Libby Houston
8.We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world,and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.-Robert Louis Stevenson

Four more great quotes and proverbs

1.Eating while seated makes one of large size;eating while standing makes one strong.-Hindu proverb
2.Only a born artist can endure the labour of becoming one.-Comtesse Diane,1908
3.If at first you don't succeed,you're in great company.-Elden Peterson
4.Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.-Dave Barry

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.Nurture your mind with great thoughts;to believe in the heroic makes heroes.-Benjamin Disraeli(not Benjamin Franklin)
2.Under hurtful accusations,often lies a weak case.-Chinese proverb
3.What really matters is what you do with what you have.-Shirley Lord
4.He who respects his parents never dies.-Greek proverb
5.To the world you may be only one person,but to one person you may be the world.-Josephine Billings

Four great quotes

1.Nurture your mind with great thoughts;to believe in the heroic makes heroes.-Benjamin Franklin
2.Happiness comes more from loving than being loved;and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding.To love,and to be hurt often,and to love again----this is the brave and happy life.-J.E.Buchrose
3.How we spend our days is,of course,how we spend our lives.-Annie Dillard
4.We shape our lives and we shape ourselves.The choices we make are our responsibility.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.Do not be outwardly a fierce bull but inwardly as timid as a mouse.-Chinese proverb
2.God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.-Jewish proverb
3.It is good to have an end to journey towards;but it is the journey that matters,in the end.-Ursula K.LeGuin
4.We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.-Bruce Lee
5.In the end you can only teach the things that you are,the things that you've become.-Max Learner
6.All things come to those who go after them.-Bob Estes
7.The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.-Attributed to Harold Nicholson
8.He who denies all confesses all.-Spanish proverb

Three other olive oil brands that you have consumed over the last five years

Over the last five years,I have also bought and consumed 750 ml or 1 litre bottles of these three
Italian olive oil brands.
1.Sasso
2.ItalPasta
3.Rosangela
All three were moderately good in terms of taste.

Two light-tasting olive oil brands that I like

Recently,I consumed two 1-litre bottles of extra-virgin olive oil of these two Italian brands,over the last five months.
1.Gallucci
2.Oliveto.
Both had an extra-light taste and were good,but I found Oliveto slightly better-tasting.

Eight great quotes or proverbs

1.From praise,as from a shadow,a man is neither bigger nor smaller.-Danish proverb
2.I reckon being ill as one of the greatest pleasures in life,provided one is not too ill and is not
obliged to work until one is better.-Samuel Butler
3.Sharing success is very successful.-The Tao of Leadership
4.To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.-Chinese proverb
5.The most valuable real estate in America is the voting booth.-President Harry Truman
6.As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,they are not certain;and as far as they are certain,they do not refer to reality.-Albert Einstein
7.Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.-Russian
proverb
8.Enough is a feast.-Irish proverb

Four great quotes

1.When the master has come to do everything through the slave,the slave becomes his master,since he cannot live without him.-George Bernard Shaw
2.Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.-George Seaton
3.A bad habit never disappears miraculously;it's an un-do-it yourself project.-Abigail Van Buren
4.To learn and practice what is learned from time to time is pleasure,is it not?To have friends from afar is happiness,is it not?To be unperturbed when not appreciated by others is a gentleman,is it not?-Chinese proverb

Three great quotes and proverbs

1.Speech is the mirror of the soul;as a man speaks,so he is.-Publilius Syrus
2.Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.-Japanese proverb
3.When a thing is funny,search it for a hidden truth.-George Bernard Shaw

Two quotes by George Bernard Shaw on animal rights and vegetarianism

1.Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.-George Bernard Shaw
2.When a man of normal habits is ill,everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover.When a vegetarian is ill,(which fortunately very seldom happens),everyone assures him that he is going to die,and that they told him so,and that it serves him right.They implore him to take at least a little gravy,so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.-George Bernard Shaw

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.-Frank Herbert
2.Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up;don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out.-Jewish proverb
3.Make sure you have other people in your life who will exert benevolent pressure to get you to keep writing.-Anne Lamott
4.The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.-George Bernard Shaw
5.Taste:a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.-George Bernard Shaw

Four great quotes or proverbs

1.The dog wags his tail not for you,but for your bread.-Portuguese proverb
2.The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.-E.E.Cummings
3.Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.My advice is to hold your pen as if you are holding a small bird.Not so loosely that it flies away,not so tightly that you crush it.-Philomene Long

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.-Rosellen Brown
2.The fact is most productive writers show up for work as dutifully and with as little fanfare as any civil servant.-Rosellen Brown
3.Don't ask yourself what the world needs.Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then do that.Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.-Howard Thurman
4.I am patient with stupidity,but not with those who are proud of it.-Edith Sitwell
5.If your success is not on your own terms;if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart,it is not success at all.-Anna Quindlen

Nine great quotes and proverbs

1.Laughter is the language of the gods.-Russ Dudley
2.Television is more interesting than people.If it were not,we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms.-Alan Coren
3.Deceive the rich and powerful if you will,but don't insult them.-Japanese proverb
4.We are not a society of rugged individualists who wish to go it alone,but a community of people who want to band together for mutual support.-Robert Wuthnow
5.Laughter is the most healthful exertion.-Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
6.Never write a letter while you are angry.-Chinese proverb
7.Confessed faults are half mended.-Scottish proverb
8.Inside every man there is a poet who died young.-Stefan Kanfer
9.Future is the sky.-Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.If I satiate my desires,I sin but I deliver myself from them.If I refuse to satisfy them,they infect the whole soul.-Jean-Paul Sartre
2.It's very hard to live up to an image.-Elvis Presley
3.The best blush to use is laughter.It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.-Linda Knight
4.When fascism comes to America,it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.-Sinclair Lewis
5.Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark.-Portuguese proverb
6.I transmit but do not create.Being fond of the truth,I am an admirer of antiquity.-Chinese proverb
7.Dreams are what gets you started.Discipline is what keeps you going.-Jim Ryan

15 great websites and blogs on food and cooking

1.www.sassyradish.com
2.http://desertcandy.blogspot.com
3www.tastespotting.com
4http://steamykitchen.com/blog
5.www.smittenkitchen.com
6.www.foodbeam.com
7.www.herbivoracious.com
8.http://tablefuel.blogspot.com
9.www.mangoandlime.net/-A blog about food and eating in Miami
10.www.movable-feast.com
11.http://greedygoose.blogspot.com
12.http://mimiin.newyork.blogspot.com
13http://80breakfasts.blogspot.com
14.http://dailygluttony.blogspot.com
15 www.ablithepalate.com

15 great websites and blogs on food

A fistful of proverbs and quotes

1.The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.-H.T.Leslie
2.Things wone are done;joy's soul lies in the doing.-Shakespeare
3.A bad agreement is better than a good lawsuit.-Italian proverb
4.To attract good fortune,spend a new coin on an old friend,share an old pleasure with a new friend,and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the
wings of a dragon.-Chinese proverb
5.The belly rules the mind.-Spanish proverb
6.The ornaments of a house are the guests who frequent it.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me,but deep down I know that's not true.Some smaller countries are neutral.-Robert Orben
8.Without rice,even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.-Chinese proverb
9.An excess of courtesy is a discourtesy.-Japanese proverb
10.Of course scientists have been told to be socially responsible.Of course,I think society ought to be scientifically responsible as all.-Sydney Brenner,Nobel Laureate

An addition of interesting quotes and proverbs

1.Some problems are just too complicated for rational,logical solutions.They admit of insights,not answers.-Jerome Wiesner
2.All roads do not lead to Rome.-Slovenian proverb
3.Keep a diary,and some day it'll keep you.-Mae West
4.It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.-George Orwell
5.Tomorrow is the mysterious,unknown guest.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6.No one can go back and make a brand new start,but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end.-Dan Zadra
7.Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.-Christina Baldwin(1977)
8.I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,all the walks I want to take,all the books I want to read,and all the friends I want to see.-John Burrough

Some great food blogs and websites about food that I love

1.www.chowhound.com
2www.accidentalhedonist.com
3 www.ethicurean.com
4.www.101cookbooks.com
5.http://bellyglad.blogspot.com
6.www.browniepointsblog.com
7.www.davidlebovitz.com
8www.foodmigration.com
9www.airlinemeals.net
10www.doriegreenspan.com
11.http://100milediet.org
12www.thepassionatecook.com
13.www.pocketfarm.com
14.www.toomanychefs.com
15.www.crashtestkitchen.com
16.http://pinoycook.net
17.http://scentofgreenbananas.blogspot.com
18.www.amateurgourmet.com
19.www.lexculinaria.com
20.www.deependdining.com

Three great quotes and proverbs

1.It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.-Edward W.Ziegler
2.There are too many people,and too few human beings.-Robert Zand
3.Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant.-Yiddish proverb

A drizzle of quotes and proverbs

1.Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.-Benjamin Disraeli(John Locke-actually)
2.Learn to unlearn.-Benjamin Disraeli
3.Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.-C.Archie Danielson
4.There is no god like one's stomach:We must sacrifice to it every day.-Yoruba saying
5.You will never 'find' time for anything.If you want time,you must make time.-Charles Buxton
6.When women hold off from marrying men,we call it independence.When men hold off from marrying men,we call it fear of commitment.-Warren Farrell
7.Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,particularly if he adds a firm handshake ,is hiding something.-Clifton Fadiman
8.It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.-Sally Kempton
9.The worst calamity :''To have eyes and fail to see.''-Helen Keller

Three great quotes and proverbs

1.Today is not a dress rehearsal,my friends it's real life.-Jason Robards
2.The absent are always in the wrong.-English proverb
3.We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean.But if this drop were not in the ocean,it would be missed.-Mother Teresa

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.The honorable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen.And he allows no knives on his table.-Chinese proverb
2.Live a balancedc life.Learn some and think some,and draw and paint and sing and dance every day some.-Robert Fulghum
3.There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace.You will find that deep place of silence right in your room,your garden or even your bathtub.-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
4.While the fates permit,live happily;life speeds on with hurried step,and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.-Seneca
5.One day at a time-this is enough.Do not look back and grieve over the past,for it is gone;and do not be troubled about the future,for it has not yet come.Live in the present,and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.-Ida Scott Taylor
6.Sorrowing hearts are always unsettled.-Chinese proverb
7.Ninety miles is but halfway in a journey of a hundred miles.-Chinese saying,cited in Quotationary

A gaggle of quotes and proverbs

1.Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.-Chinese proverb
2.In the long run,we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.-Sheldon Kopp
3.Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.-Romanian proverb
4.The senses do not deceive;it is the judgment that deceives.-Goethe
5.I have found that if you love life,life will love you back.-Arthur Rubinstein
6.One resolution,I have made,and try always to keep,is this:To rise above the little things.-John Burroughs
7.Abundance,like want,ruins many.-Romanian proverb
8.At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.-Achaan Chah
9.Live a balanced life.Learn some and think some,and draw and paint and sing and dance every day some.-Robert Fulgum