A couple of interesting quotes

1.What we call luck is the inner man externalized.We make things happen to us.-Robertson Davies
2.There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.-Audrey Hepburn

Two great quotes

1.Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.-Henry Fielding
2.Forever is composed of nows.-Emily Dickinson

Three more good quotes

1.The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.-Robert Louis Stevenson
2.It is true we may come to a perpendicular precipice,but we need not jump off,nor run our heads against it.-Robert Louis Stevenson
3.The only real radicalism in our time will come -as it always has -from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.-Christopher Hitchens

A trio of good quotes

1.Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.-Walter Cronkite
2.I see you're a man with ideals.I guess I better be going while you've still got them.-Mae West
3.What are men to rocks and mountains?-Jane Austen

Three great blogs and websites for book lovers

1. http://bookcanibal.blogspot.com
2 www.bookslut.com
3 www.litkicks.com

Five great quotes

1.Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.-John Clapham
2.Looking foolish does the spirit good.The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens.-John Updike
3.If you go in for argument,take care of your temper.Your logic,if you have any,will take care of itself.-Joseph Farrell
4.How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?-Harry S.Truman
5.No vacation goes unpunished.-Karl Hakkarainen

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition.-Jesse Owens
2.Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.-Oscar Wilde
4.The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport,and maybe in life itself.-Dawn Fraser
5.An inch of time is an inch of gold,but you cannot buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.-Chinese proverb
6.Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.-Japanese proverb
7.No one can see their reflection in running water.It is only in still water that we can see.-Taoist proverb

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.You are never a loser until you quit trying.-Mike Ditka
2.If you can't accept losing,you can't win.-Vince Lombardi
3.There are two things to aim at in life;first to get what you want,and after that to enjoy it.Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.-Logan Pearsall Smith
4.It is as easy to draw back a stone,thrown with force from the hand,as to recall a word once spoken.-Menander
5.Our minds are as different as our faces :We are all traveling to one destination;-happiness;but few are going by the same road.-Charles Caleb Colton
6.Insist on yourself.Never imitate.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.Heaven never helps the man who will not act.-Sophocles

64th list of 10 French songs you like

1.La Fugue(1969)-Jocelyne Pascal(This song is a French version of the 1968 Turtlers song 'ELEANOR')
2.L'Amour L'Amour l'Amour(1968)-Bruce Huard
3.Je Reviens Chez Nous(1967)-Jean Pierre Ferland.
4.L'Argent Ne Fait Pas Le Bonheur(1966)-Les Parisiennes
5.Rosemary-Marc Hamilton
6.Tu Te Reconnaitras(1965)-Pierrette Beauchamp
7.Les Yeux Fermes(1965)-Ginette Reno
8.Chacun Garde dans son coeur(1965)-Margot Lefebvre
9.Les Trois Vagabonds-Les Miladys
10.Lucy,Lucy,Lucy-Jacques Salvail

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.To understand is not only to pardon,but in the end to love.-Walter Lippmann
2.The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.-Madeleine L'Engle
3.Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.-Anatole France
4.Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.-Charles Peguy
5.The leader has no need to lead-he is content to point the way.-Henry Miller

Six great quotes and proverbs

1.Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-Abraham Lincoln
2.I want to know God's thoughts----the rest are details.-Albert Einstein
3.Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.-Victor Hugo
4.The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone.You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.-Elaine Agather
5.Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.-Robert Frost
6.The best opportunities are the opportunities you make for yourself.-Ben Weider

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.Use your own best judgment at all times.-The entire Nordstrom's Department stores poli
2.There is only one good,knowledge,and one evil,ignorance.-Socrates
3.Death leaves a heartache noone can heal,
love leaves a memory noone can steal.-From a headstone in Ireland
4.The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.-Theodore M.Hesburgh
5.100% of the shots you don't take don't go in.-Wayne Gretzky

Two good quotes and proverbs

1.The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place,but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-Dorothy Nevill
2.A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.-Spanish proverb

A half-dozen interesting quotes

1.True friends,like diamonds,are precious and rare.False friends,like autumn leaves,are found everywhere.-Anonymous
2.Love doesn't make the world go round.Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.-Franklin P.Jones
3.Patriotism is not short,frenzied outbursts of emotion,but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.-Adlai Stevenson
4.The key to successful leadership is influence,not authority.-Kenneth Blanchard
5.Never say more than is necessary.-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
6.Wit is educated insolence.-Aristotle

Six great quotes and proverbs

1.Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.-Ayn Rand
2.Age appears to be best in four things-old wood best to burn,old wine to drink,old friends to trust and old authors to read.-Francis Bacon
3.There is still no cure for the common birthday.-John Glenn
4.After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.-Aldous Huxley
5.Never underestimate the power of passion.-Eve Sawyer
6.When you come to a roadblock,take a detour.-Mary Kay Ash

Seven great quotes

1.The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.-Napoleon
2.A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart,his next to escape the censures of the world.-English proverb
3.Man has responsibility,not power.-Native American proverb(Tuscarora)
4.More haste,less speed.-Motto
5.When you say Yes,say it quickly.But always take a half hour to say No,so you can understand the other fellow's side.-France Cardinal Spellman
6.There are only two or three human stories,and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.-Willa Cather
7.Wit makes its own welcome,and levels all distinctions.No dignity,no learning,no force of character,can make any stand against good wit.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.-Charles de Gaulle
2.Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.-Ross Perot
3.Talk low,talk slow and don't talk too much.-John Wayne
4.The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.-John Kenneth Galbraith
5.If we had no winter,the spring would not be so pleasant.-Anne Bradstreet

Three great quotes

1.Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.-Milton Friedman
2.The gods have their own rules.-Ovid
3.Of all escape mechanisms,death is the most efficient.-H.L.Mencken

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.Take nothing on its looks;take everything on evidence.There's no better rule.-Charles Dickens
2.Writing is a democratic act.There is no hierarchy.So what if you are the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?You have to wake up the next day and start another story.-Natalie Goldberg
3.Joy is not in things;it is in us.-Richard Wagner
4.I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.-James E.Salk
5.Cunning---is the sense of our weakness,and an attempt to effect by concealment what we cannot do openly and by force.-William Hazlitt(1778-1830)
6.I believe in looking reality in the eye and denying it.-Garrison Keillor
7.Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.-Logan Pearsall Smith

Two insightful quotes

1.All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;the point is to discover them.-Galileo Galilei
2.I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.-Frances Willard

Three great quotes or proverbs

1.Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.-Arab proverb
2.Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.-Karl Menninger
3.To succeed is nothing,it's an accident.But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different:it is character.-Marie Lenru

Three more great quotes

1.There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.-Irving Berlin
2.Happiness isn't something you experience;it's something you remember.-Oscar Levant
3.The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one proposes to do.-Pablo Casals

Six great quotes

1.Search others for their virtues,thyself for their vices.-Benjamin Franklin
2.First say to yourself what you would be,then do what you have to do.-Epictetus
3.If cats could talk,they wouldn't.-Nan Porter
4.Life was meant to be lived and curiosity kept alive.One must never,for whatever reason,turn his back on life.-Eleanor Roosevelt
5.The purpose of life is to live it,to taste experience to the utmost,to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.-Eleanor Roosevelt
6.The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.-Arnold Toynbee

Two

1.It is bad taste to be wise all the time,like being at a perpetual funeral.-D.H.Lawrence
2.The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.Peace,no less than war,requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.-John Foster Dulles
3.If the thunder is not loud,the peasant forgets to cross himself.-Russian proverb

Five great quotes

1.The world is made of stories,not of atoms.-Muriel Rukeyser
2.Because things are the way they are,things will not stay where they are.-Bertolt Brecht
3.Truth has no special time of its own.Its hour is now-always.-Albert Schweitzer
4.One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.-John Stuart Mill
5.There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.-Agnes Repplier

63rd list of 10 French songs you like

1.Fio Mara Villa-Melodie Stewart
2.Le Mur Derriere La Grange(1972)-Donald Lautrec
3.Mon Bonheur(1972)-Jacques Salvail.(This song is a version of the Neil Sedaka song 'BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO.')
4.La Prison de Londres(1972)-Louise Forestier
5.J'ai trop mange(1972)-Patrick Zabe.(This song is a French version is of the Daniel Boone hit song ,'BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY' from 1972)
6.Jenny,Jenny(1975)-Jocelyne Pascal
7.Les Colombes(1972)-Lise Thouin
8.Coui,Coui-Les Bel Canto
9.L'amour est la-Claire Lepage (This song is a French version of the hit 1971 song 'LOVE GROWS WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES' by Edison Lighthouse)
10.Le P'tit Popy(1968)-Michel Pagliaro et Les Chanceliers.(This song is a French version of the 1968 song 'I'M YOUR PUPPET' by James and Bobby Purify)

A collection of seven nice quotes

1.I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.-Franklin Delano Roosevelt,quoted in THE WASHINGTON POST.
2.Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.-Pat Conroy,BEACH MUSIC
3.A story untold could be the one that kills you.-Pat Conroy
4.Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys of paradise.-Pat Conroy
5.At the top the bridge with the stars shining above the harbor,I look to the north and wish again that there were two lives apportioned to every man and woman.-Pat Conroy
6.There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous.It takes much luck andintegrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.-Pat Conroy,THE PRINCE OF TIDES.
7.No story is a straight line.The geometry of human life is too imperfect and complex,too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into it'ssystem of laws.-Pat Conroy,BEACH MUSIC.

Six nice quotes and proverbs

1.He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.-Arab proverb
2.We seek peace ,knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.-Dwight D.Eisenhower
3.Man wonders,God decided.-Pat Conroy
4.My wound is geography.It is also my anchorage ,my port of call.-Pat Conroy,first lines of his novel,THE PRINCE OF TIDES.
5.We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire,our bodies were fields of wonder to us.-Pat Conroy,BEACH MUSIC
6.Music could ache and hurt,that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.-Pat Conroy,BEACH MUSIC

Five great quotes

1.Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.-Plato,from THE REPUBLIC.
2.Baseball fans love numbers.They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.-Pat Conroy
3.Without music,life is a journey through a desert.-Pat Conroy
4.I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.-Novelist Pat Conroy(b.1945)
5.Once you have traveled,the voyage never ends ,but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers.The mind can never break off from the journey.-Pat Conroy,THE PRINCE OF TIDES.

Five great quotes

1.Nostalgia excuses everything,enabling people to click their tongues over the outdated inequalities,yet guiltily enjoy the sense of hierarchy .-Jill Cooper in CLASS(1980).
2.To unparted waters,undreamed shores.-William Shakespeare
3.We all need to look into the dark side of our nature-that's where the energy is,the passion.People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're denying.-Sue Grafton
4.There are laws for everything except the harm families do.-Sue Grafton, in' ''D'' IS FOR DEADBEAT.'
5.People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful,but they're bland.An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy.Use your old grief.That's the gift you're given.-Sue Grafton

12 great quotes or proverbs

1.Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.-Joseph Heller
2.We are such stuff as dreams are made of,
And our little life is rounded with sleep.-William Shakespeare
3.A word is not a crystal,transparent and unchanged;it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.-Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr,
4.Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.But without it we go nowhere.-Carl Sagan
5.Oppression involves a failure of imagination:the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.-Margaret Atwood
6.It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.-Herman Melville
7.It is faintly obscene for most American writers to bemoan their difficulties when writers in other parts of the world are having trouble even staying alive or out of prison.-Lisa Alther
8.Part of the magic of heroes and heroines has always been their ability to embody a vision of life that at the moment is not developed enough---Heroes are not always just reflections of what has already happened but are also harbingers of what is to come.-Todd Brennan,article in THE CRITIC(1976).
9.Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,and paints his own nature into his pictures.-Henry Ward Beecher
10.If high heels were so wonderful,men would be wearing them.-Sue Grafton
11.Ideas are easy.It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.-Sue Grafton
12.It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world.They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.-Sue Grafton

Honey,Honey

'HONEY,HONEY' was a popular French song by Pierre Lalonde in Quebec

October

October is National Pizza Month in Canada and the U.S.

62nd list of 10 French songs you like

1.Avril Sur Mars-Robert Charlebois
2.Honey,Hiney-Pierre Lalonde
3.De Plus En Plus Fort-Pierre Lalonde
4.Nous on est dans le vent-Robert Charlebois
5.Petite Fille-Pierre Lalonde
6.Donne-moi ta bouche-Pierre Lalonde
7.C'est le temps des vacances-Pierre Lalonde
8.Je Les Aime Tant-Pierre Lalonde
9.A Quoi Bon Pleurer(1967)-Les Gendarmes.(This song is a French version of the 1967 Aaron Neville hit song 'TELL IT LIKE IT IS.')
10.Les Enfants du Piree(1960)-Dalida.(This song is a French version of the 1960 song 'NEVER ON SUNDAY',from the film of the same name).