Four good quotes

1.Of two cowards,the one who finds the other out first has the advantage.-Italian proverb
2.The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket.-Kin Hubbard
3.Truth is a pathless land.-Jiddu Krishnamurti
4.Eschew the ordinary,disdain the commonplace.If you have a single-minded need for something,let it be the unusual,the esoteric,the bizarre,the unexpected.-Chuck Jones

Two great quotes

1.Statistician:A man who believes figures don't lie,but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.-Evan Esar
2.Sports are the reason I am out of shape.I watch them all on TV.-Thomas Sowell

A couple of great quotes

1.Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.-Martin Luther King Jr.
2.A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.-Thomas Mann

Two great quotes

1.A nation without a free press is no more than a crab,capable of going only sideways or backwards.-Mark Twain
2.Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.-Christina Petrowsky

Three more good quotes

1.The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.-Vladimir Lenin
2.Inspiration descends only in flashes,to clothe circumstances;it is not stored up in a barrel,like salt herrings,to be doled out.-Patrick White
3.The tighter you squeeze your fist,the more will slip through your fingers.-Old saying

Three good quotes

1.Do good and don't worry to whom.-Mexican proverb
2.We must have infinite faith in each other.If we have not,we must never let it leak out that we have not.-Henry David Thoreau
3.A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.-Francis Picabia

Seven great websites and blogs

1 www.thepublishingcontrarian.com
2 www.thepublishingspot.com
3 www.publishingtrends.blogspot.com
4 www.shelf-awareness.com
5 http://ecolibris.blogspot.com
6 http://evileditor.blogspot.com
7 http://booksellerchick.blogspot.com

Four good websites and blogs

1 http://notodebtslavery.blogspot.com
2 www.elephantjournal.com
3 www.adbusters.org
4 crooksandliars.com

Great quote by Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

We find it easy to set limits when the issue is safety---But 99 percent of the time there isn't imminent danger;most of life takes place on more ambiguous ground.-Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Two great quotes

1.A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.-Carl Rowan
2.It is physically impossible for a well-educated,intellectual or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.-John Ruskin(1819-1900)

Interesting letter in The Montreal Gazette on the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games

Rude photographer
Re''Another wall in China'',Gazette,Aug.13:
It's obvious that China went a little overboard in its efforts to clean up for the Olympic Games,but that's no reason to poke fun at the Chinese.Didn't previous Olympic hosts clean up their streets?Of course.
If I knew important visitors were coming to visit,I'd certainly hide my clutter out of sight-possibly in my closet.And I 'd think it rude if a visitor took pictures in my closet.-Terry Chin,LaSalle,Letter to Editor,MONTREAL GAZETTE,August 14,2008.

Five great quotes

1.Nobody can be exactly like me.Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.-Tallulah Bankhead
2.Community is the happy affirmation of the young writer,but solitude is the mature writer's dearest mate.-D.W.Fenza
3.In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.-Robert Ingersoll
4.There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.-Jean Jacques Rousseau
5.Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.-Hugh Miller

Great quote by Albert Camus

1.It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.-Albert Camus

Two more good quotes

1.The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.-Doug Larson
2.He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.-Bertolt Brecht

66TH L

1.A present,tu peux t'en aller-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of the Dusty Springfield song 'ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU')
2.Seduction treize-Alain Barriere
3.Le Jonc D'Amitie(1970)-Anne Renee.(This song is a French version of Freda Payne's hit 1970 song 'BAND OF GOLD')
4.Aiko Aiko-Patrick Norman
5.Lache pas la patate(1974)-Jimmy C.Newman
6.Si Tu Viens Dans Mon Pays(1974)-Renee Claude
7.L'Incendie a Rio-Sacha Distel
8.Que Dieu protege notre amour-Therese Deroy
9.Sans Toi-Jean Nichol
10.Pata Pata-Miriam Makeba

Three good quotes

1.Democracy is never static and its growth depends on our own attitude.Therefore,it is a constant adventure and a form of government that requires of every citizen a maximum of unselfish devotion.-Eleanor Roosevelt
2.Expenditure -like ugliness and errors-becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it.-George Eliot
3.Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults;and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.-Thomas Szasz

Two good quotes

1.History calls those the greatest who ennobled themselves by working for the universal.Experience praises as the most happy the one who made the most persons happy.-Karl Marx
2.People are never so free witrh themselves and so recklessly glad as when there is some possibility of commotion or calamity ahead.-Carson McCullers

A couple of good quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

1.Whenever asked if you can do a job,tell 'em 'Certainly I can!'-and get busy and find out how to do it.-Theodore Roosevelt
2.Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong,but in finding out the right and upholding it,wherever found,against the wrong.-Theodore Roosevelt

Great quote by Tennessee Williams

We have to distrust each other.It's our only defence against betrayal.-Tennessee Williams

Great quote

1.Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts;the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.-Jonathan Edwards

Great Letter from The Montreal Gazette

Epitaph For Big Three.
I can just see it now.If Detroit's Big Three Automakers go under,their epitaph will most assuredly read:''Rust in Peace.''
-Herb Stark,Massapequa,New York,Letter to Editor,MONTREAL GAZETTE,Nov 20,2008

Interesting website for book lovers

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65th list of 10 French songs you like a lot

1.Le Premier Amour(1970)-Francois et Liette(This song started out with the line'On n'oublie pas le premier amour).
2.Des Gens Sympathiques(1970)-Karo
3.C'est toujours comme ca la premiere fois(1970)-Pierre Lalonde
4.En Blue Jeans et Blouson de Cuir(1963)-Salvatore Adamo
5.J'ai un Petit Faible Pour Toi-Alain Lefevre
6.Je me sens tres seul(1963)-Fernand Gignac
7.La Ballade Bourgeoise(1970)-La Nouvelle Frontiere
8.C'est Toujours Comme ca la premiere fois(1970)-Pierre Lalonde
9.L'ecole est finie(1963)-Joel Denis
10.Esso Besso(1963)-Robert DeMontigny

Five good websites and blogs

1 www.southernappeal.org
2 www.talkingpointsmemo.com
3 www.vetvoice.com
4 www.democracyarsenal.com
5 http://cunningrealist.blogspot.com

A trio of good quotes

1.We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.-Denis Diderot
2.We bring forth weeds
When our quick minds lie still.-William Shakespeare
3.Kind words are the music of the world.-F.W.Faber

A half-dozen good quotes

1.I demolish the bridges behind me----then there is no choice but to move forward.-Firdtjof Nansen
2.Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.-Woodrow Wilson
3.Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions.-Humphrey B.Neil
4.Language is the close-fitting dress of Thought.-R.C.Trench
5.Never draw a dirk when a blow will do it.-Scottish proverb
6.What this country needs is more free speech that is worth listening to.-Hansell Duckett

Three good quotes

1.The first and greatest commandment is,Don't let them scare you.-Elmer Davis
2.Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer,and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work,and that writing didn't require any.-Russell Baker

Three great quotes

1.Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.-Roger L'Estrange
2.In absence of clearly defined goals,we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.-Author unknown
3.Any fool can tell the truth,but it requires a man of some sense to know to lie well.-Samuel Butler

Two good quotes

1.The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.-Arthur Schopenhauer
2.Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.-Henry Louis Mencken

Four fine quotes

1.Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.-Marshall Ganz
2.Make everything as simple as possible,but not simpler.-Albert Einstein
3.In any contest between patience and power,bet on patience.-W.B.Prescott
4.It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.-Albert Einstein

Four great quotes

1.Pessimism,when you get used to it,is just as agreeable as optimism.-Arnold Bennett
2.It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling
To get adapted to my kind of fooling.-Robert Frost
3.If you love what you are doing,and always put the customer first,success will be yours.-Ray Kroc
4.If a man has any greatness in him,it comes to light not in one flamboyant hour,but in the ledger of his daily work.-Beryl Markham

Three fabulous quotes

1.In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.-Henry W.Longfellow
2.Happiness is not a matter of events,it depends upon the tides of the mind.-Alice Meynell
3.Goals are fuel in the furnace of achievement.-Brian Tracy

Four more great quotes

1.Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.-Barbara Tober
2.Every great mistake has a halfway moment,a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.-Pearl S.Buck
3.In the business world,the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.-Warren Buffett
4.Caution is the daughter of circumspection,but she tends to outgrow her mother.-Franz Grillparzer

A trio of great quotes

1.Let your boat of life be light,packed with only what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures.-Jerome Klapka Jerome
2.I think I detect sarcasm ----You know what they say?Sarcasm is the greatest weapon of the smallest mind.-Alan Ayckbourn
3.Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person,only communication between different parts of a person's mind.-Rebecca West

A quartet of great quotes

1.Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.-Richard Cech
3.Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.-George F.Will
4.Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.-William Ellery Channing

Three more great quotes

1.Someday,maybe,there will exist a well-informed,well-considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit.-Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson
2.Fortify yourself with contentment,for this is an impregnable fortress.-Epictetus
3.We don't live in a world of reality,we live in a world of perceptions.-Gerald J.Simmons

Four great websites

1 www.apparentlynothing.com
2 www.thefoodwhore.com
3 www.tastespotting.com
4 www.greedygourmet.com

A great website for vegans

www.veganwolf.com

Three great websites for book lovers

1. www.mediabistro.com
2 www.neglectedbooks.com
3 www.bookdwarf.com

Six fine quotes

1.Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.-Winston Churchill
2.Every ceiling ,when reached becomes a floor,upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.-Aldous Huxley
3.Life is a train of moods like a string of beads,and,as we pass through them,they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue,and each shows only what lies in its focus.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.Sleep,those little slices of death;oh how I loathe them.-Edgar Allan Poe
5.A bold onset is half the battle.-Giuseppe Garibaldi
6.Although there may be nothing new under the sun,what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it.If we do tire of it,if we lose our curiosity,we have lost something of infinite value,because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.-Robertson Davies

Five great quotes

1.All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.-Marcel Proust
2.Win or lose,we go to shopping after the election.-Imelda Marcos
3.Life is either a tightrope or a featherbed.Give me a tightrope.-Edith Wharton
4.Water and air,the two essential fluids on which all life depends,have become global garbage cans.-Jacques Cousteau
5.Girls just want to have funds.-Adrienne E.Gusoff

Four great quotes

1.A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.-Dwight D.Eisenhower
2.True love comes quietly,without banners or flashing lights.If you hear bells,get your ears checked.-Erich Segal
3.If you want to make an apple pie from scratch,you must first create the universe.-Carl Sagan
4.A clever man commits no minor blunders.-Goethe

Erich Segal

Five great quotes

1.A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.-Paul Eldridge
2.Exploration is the essence of the human spirit.-Frank Borman,astronaut
3.Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.-E.Joseph Cossman
4.Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.-George Santayana
5.Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.-Jay Leno

Three great quotes

1.The family is one of nature's masterpieces.-George Santayana
2.The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.-William Cowper
3.Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.-George Santayana.

A quartet of interesting quotes

1.One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps,and a lion to frighten wolves.-Niccolo Machiavelli
2.It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.-Joseph Joubert
3.Let others praise ancient times;I am glad I was born in these.-Ovid
4.It is easy to dodge a spear in the daylight,but it is difficult to avoid an arrow in the dark.-Chinese proverb

Five great quotes

1.Memories are the key not to the past,but to the future.-Corrie Ten Boom
2.The people who cast the votes decide nothing.The people who count the votes decide everything.-Joseph Stalin
3.Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.-Julian Jaynes
4.It is true we may come to a perpendicular precipice,but we need not jump off,nor run our heads against it.-Henry David Thoreau(not Robert Louis Stevenson-x)
5.We are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labour just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.-Sherwood Boehlert

1 http://bookcannibal.blogspot.com
2 www.realitysandwich.com