Monday, March 31, 2008

Five great quotes or priverbs

1.God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.-German proverb
2.Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth----Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.-Noela Evans
3.He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.-Dutch proverb
4.Obstacles are the frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.-Henry Ford
5.There is a paradox in pride:It makes some men ridiculous,but prevents others from becoming so.-Charles Caleb Colton(1780-1832)

Friday, March 28, 2008

Six great quotes or proverbs

1.A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'-Larry Wolters
2.Nobody believes the official spokesman ----but everybody trusts an unidentified source.-Ron Nesen
3.The past is to be respected and acknowledged,but not to be worshipped.It is our future in which we will find our greatness.-Pierre Trudeau
4.The most useless are those who never change through the years.-James Barrie
5.Employ thy time well if you meanest to get leisure.-Benjamin Franklin
6.My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.-Jean Rostand

Sunday, March 23, 2008

An octet of good quotes or proverbs

1.Choose a wife with your ears,not your eyes.-French proverb
2.Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.-George Bernard Shaw
3.The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.-Samuel Butler
4.I never teach my pupils;I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they learn.-Albert Einstein
5.Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.-Robert S.Lynd
6.If we are to go on living together on this earth,we must all be responsible for it.-Kofi Annan
7.My religion consists of humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.-Albert Einstein
8.Decision-making isn't a matter of arriving at a right or wrong answer,it's a matter of selecting the most effective course of action from among less effective courses of action.-Philip Marvin

Saturday, March 22, 2008

5th list of 10 French songs that you like a lot and would love to hear on radio

1.Desormais-Charles Aznavour
2.Un Jour Mon Reve-Vicky
3.Viens me faire Oublier-Dick Rivers
4.Jusqu'a demain peut-etre-Michel Fugain et Big Bazaar
5.Voici les Cles-Gerard LeNorman
6.Petit Bonheur-Salvatore Adamo
7.Au Nom De La Jeunesse-Charles Aznavour
8.Et Pourtant-Charles Aznavour
9.C'est fini-Chantal Pary
10.Pas Besoin de Frapper-Jacques Michel

Friday, March 21, 2008

4th list of 10 French songs that you like a lot and that you would like to see played on radio more often

1.Foule Sentimentale-Alain Souchon
2.Fais-moi une place-Julien Clerc
3.Le Bateau du Bonheur-Renee Martel
4.Tout ce que je veux (1973)-Jean-Pierre Manseau
5.Je te Rechaufferai-Charles Aznavour
6.Theo et Antoinette(1974)-Jean-Pierre Manseau
7.C'est la faute au Bossa Nova-Margot Lefebvre
8.Une Meche de Cheveux-Salvatore Adamo
9.C'est la fin du monde-Sophie Jose
10.N'Importe Quoi-Eric Lapointe

Eight great quotes or proverbs

1.You must climb the mountain if you would see the plain.-Chinese proverb
2.There are no pockets in a shroud.-Gaelic proverb
3.If knowledge can create problems,it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.-Isaac Asimov
4.You've got to do your own growing,no matter how tall your grandfather was.-Irish proverb
5.What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.-Carl Rogers
6.Be thine enemy an ant,see in him an elephant.-Turkish proverb
7.Non-violence is a flop.The only bigger flop is violence.-Joan Baez,1967.
8.There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.-Maya Angelou

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Third list of 10 French songs you like a lot

Third list of 10 French songs you like a lot

This is a third list of 10 songs in French that you like a lot and that you would like to see played on radio more often.The songs are:
1.Je Me Sens Bien Aupres de Toi-Petula Clark
2.Poupee de Cire-France Gall
3.Une Glace au Soleil-Sophie Jose
4.Mal D'Amour-Claude Michel
5.L'Amour est Bleu-Vicky Leandros
6.Comment te dire-Margot Lefebvre
7.Qu'est-ce qui fait pleurer les blondes?-Sylvie Vartan
8.Les Neiges Du Kilimanjaro-Pascal Danel
9.L'Amour te ressemble-Salvatore Adamo
10.Ce Soir L'amour est dans tes yeux.-Martine St.Clair

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Two olive oil brands I consumed recently

I just finished consuming a 75o ml bottle of Aurora olive oil .It was from Italy,and decent.
Last month,I finished consuming a 750 ml bottle of Antica Bonta olive oil.It was from Italy,and was decent too.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.-Roselle Brown
2.They say the worst cynics are frustrated idealists.-Gregg Hurwitz,''The Kill Clause"
3.Your friend has a friend:don't tell him.-Jewish proverb
4.If fortune calls,offer him a seat.-Yiddish proverb
5.Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccini,but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccini restaurant in the first place.-Calvin Trillin

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.You may laugh at a friend's roof;don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.-Kenyan proverb
2.Love and magic have a good deal in common.They enrich the soul,delight the heart.And they both take practice.-Nora Roberts
3.Young people tell what they are doing,old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.-French proverb
4.No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.-Sam Rayburn
5.The big mistake that men make is that when they turn 13 or 14,and all of a sudden they've reached puberty,they believe that they like women.Actually,you're just horny.It doesn't mean you like women any more at 21 than you did at 10.-U.S.cartoonist Jules Feiffer

Friday, March 14, 2008

A second list of 10 great French songs that you love a lot

A Second list of 10 great French songs that you like very much:
1.Les Bleus Au Coeur-Patrick Juvet
2.Sayonara(1969)-Herve Vilard
3.Fais La Rire-Herve Vilard
4.Viens Me Faire Oublier-Dick Richard
5.Loin Dans Ma Campagne-Donald Lautrec
6.Soleil(1970)-Francoise Hardy
7.Tes Yeux-Nicole Martin
8.Oui parait-il-Nicole Martin
9.Au Nom De La Jeunesse-Charles Aznavour
10.Non,Je Ne Regrette Rien-Edith Piaf

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

A trio of quotes or proverbs

1.Worries go better with soup than without.-Yiddish proverb
2.Words must be weighed,not counted.-Polish proverb
3.For the most part,fear is nothing but an illusion.When you share it with someone else,it tends to disappear.-Marilyn C.Barrick

Three great quotes or proverbs

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.-Lionel Trilling
2.You can't make pancakes without breaking eggs.-Spanish proverb
3.Happiness is when what you think,what you say ,and what you do are in harmony.-Mahatma Gandhi
4.You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.-Jewish proverb
5.The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.-Dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann
6.The worse the passage the more welcome the port.-English proverb
7.About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.-Josh Billings
8.With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.-Catherine De Hueck

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.Women in mischief are wiser than men.-English proverb
2.Be ye lamps unto yourselves-hold ye fast to the truth as to a lamp.-Buddhism
3.Exactly the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.-G.K.Chesterton
4.A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence.-German proverb
5.Insane people are always sure that they are fine.It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.-Nora Ephron
6.Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.-Kahlil Gibran,THE PROPHET
7.When we are happy,we love Nature.When we are dull and depressed,it says nothing to us.Our feeling for it would therefore seem to be a reflection of our moods.-Gerald Brenan(1894-1987)
8.A woman either loves or hates,there is no third course.-Latin proverb

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Great letter from The Chicago Tribune

Long campaign.
Couldn't we find a way to hold each presidential election during a non-leap year?Then we'd be spared at least that one extra day of campaigning!
-Rick Kotrba,Chicago,
Letter to Editor,CHICAGO TRIBUNE,FEB 18,2008