Five great quotes

1.Think before you think.-Stanislaw Lec
2.Writing is an extreme form of happiness.-Tom Paulin
3.It isn't where you came from,it's where you're going that counts.-Ella Fitzgerald
4.This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love;the more they give,the more they possess.-Rainer Maria Rilke
5.Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall,the genial flame of charity in the heart.-Washington Irving

Two good quotes

1.People who don't respect money don't have any.-J.Paul Getty(1892-1976),oil tycoon
2.Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee,and just as hard to sleep after.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A scattering of good quotes

1.You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.-Rita Mae Brown
2.To go forward is to move toward perfection.March on,and fear not the thorns,or the sharp stones on life's path.-Kahlil Gibran
3.Whenever two good people argue over principles,they are both right.-Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach

Great Oliver GOldsmith quote

Those who are incapable of teaching young minds to reason pretend that it is impossible.The truth is,they are fonder of making their pupils talk well than think well;and much the greater number are better qualified to give praise to a ready memory than a sound judgment.-Oliver Goldsmith

Two more good quotes

1.We are asleep with compasses in our hands.-W.S.Merwin
2.Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.-William Penn

A duo of good quotes

1.Good taste is the enemy of comedy.-Mel Brooks
2.Do not the most moving moments in our lives find us without words?-Marcel Marceau

Three more good quotes

1.Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it.-Richard Lamm
2.The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie-deliberate,contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent,persuasive and unrealistic.-John F.Kennedy
3.Words are,of course,the most powerful drugs used by mankind.-Rudyard Kipling

Five good quotes

1.Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.-Pearl Buck
2.The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution,because,largely about all a human being is,anyway,is just a hoping machine,a working machine.-Woody Guthrie
3.A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.-James Beard(1903-85)
4.There are no second acts in American lives.-F.Scott Fitzgerald
5.A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten.Some of us are gourmets,some gourmands,and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole,absent-mindedly and with little relish.-W.H.Auden,THE DRYER HANDS

67th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Ti-Bidon-Michel Pagliaro
2.Je Bois De L'Eau Au Lit(1974)-Patrick Zabbé
3.Ma mélodie d' Amour(1974)-Chantal Pary
4.Elle s'en va-Patrick Norman
5.Bienvenue dans ma demeure(1969)-Eric Charden
6.En Frappant Dans Nos Mains(1972)-Mireille Mathieu
7.Quand ca ne tourne pas rond(1972)-Patrick Norman
8.Mon coeur est à toi(1972)-Patrick Norman
9.On trouve l'amour(1972)-Anne Renée
10.Si on pouvait recommencer(1972)-Renée Martel

A quartet of good quotes

1.The true mystery of the world is the visible,not the invisible.-Oscar Wilde
2.Dying,losing,cheating and mediocrity is easy.Stay away from easy.-Scott Alexander
3.Emergencies have always been necessary to progress.It was darkness which produced the lamp.It was fog that produced the compass.It was hunger that drove us to exploration.And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.-Victor Hugo
4.Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world,and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.-Oscar Wilde

Three good quotes and proverbs

1.How can anyone govern a nation that has 240 different kinds of cheese?-Charles de Gaulle
2.Winter is the time for comfort,for good food and warmth,for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:it is the time for home.-Edith Sitwell.
3.What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.-Oscar Wilde

Great quote

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.Our antagonist is our helper.-Edmund Burke

Two interesting quotes

1.Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.-George Bernard Shaw
2.Love is,above else,the gift of oneself.-Jean Anouilh

Great quote on movies by Samuel Goldwyn

1.A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.-Samuel Goldwyn

A duo of fresh quotes

1.Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.-Lester B.Pearson
2.About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.-Gloria Pitzer

A couple of good quotes

1.The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.-Sophocles
2.Always be nice to those younger than you because they are the ones who will be writing about you.-Cyril Connolly

Two great websites and blogs

1 http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com
2 http://vagabondscholar.blogspot.com

A couple of good quotes

1.They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.-Latin proverb
2.Even trees do not die without a groan.-Henry David Thoreau

Two good quotes

1.I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place.Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace,and the leafy lanes they may have known from childhood remain but a place of passage.They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known.Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent to which they may attach themselves.-W.Somerset Maugham,THE MOON AND SIXPENCE,1919.
2.When you get the message,hang up the phone.-Philosopher Alan Watts

Six good quotes

1.You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.-Jim Rohn
2.I quote others only in order the better to express myself.-Michel De Montaigne
3.Aim at the sun,and you may not reach it;but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.-Joel Hawes
4.Vegans sneer at vegetarians the way nuns sneer at premarital virgins.Amateurs.-Jack Knox,VICTORIA TIMES columnist,reprinted in THE MONTREAL GAZETTE,December 12,2008,page A23.
5.Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.-Evan Esar
6.No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.-Herman Melville

Four good websites and blogs for general and political/social issues

1 www.scholarsandrogues.com
2 http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com
3 http://driftglass.blogspot.com
4 www.tinglealley.com

Three motre catchy quotes

1.Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.-Robert Greenleaf
2.Computers are like Old Testament gods;lots of rules and no mercy.-Joseph Campbell
3.Writing poetry is like trying to catch a black cat in a dark room.-Robert Graecan

Two catchy quotes

1.I don't try to describe the future.I try to prevent it.-Ray Bradbury
2.There is a sacredness in tears.They are not the mark of weakness,but of power.-Washington Irving

Three more good quotes

1.The recipe for perpetual ignorance is:be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.-Elbert Hubbard
2.There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.-Will Rogers
3.Courage is saying,'Maybe what I'm doing isn't working;maybe I should try something else.''
-Anna Lappé

Three great quotes

1.Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.-George Eliot
2.Two paradoxes are better than one;they may even suggest a solution.-Edward Teller
3.Trust your own instinct.Your mistakes might as well be your own,instead of someone else's.-Billy Wilder

A trio of great quotes

1.As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything,keep it.-Mahatma Gandhi
2.Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.-Knute Rockne
3.In the memory of oppression,oppression outlives itself.The scar does the work of the wound---It is a posthumous victory for the oppressors,when pain becomes a tradition.-Literary critic Leon Wieseltier

Four great quotes

1.Composing a piece of music is very feminine.It is sensitive,emotional,contemplative.By contrast,doing housework is positively masculine.-U.S. composer Barbara Kolb
2.What writing really about?It's trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.-Ted Hughes
3.You may delay,but time will not.-Benjamin Franklin
4.It is not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us fathers and sons.-Johann Schiller

Two good quotes

1.Every nation ridicules other nations,and all are right.-Arthur Schopenhauer
2.I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty----but I am too busy thinking about myself.-Edith Sitwell

A quintet of good quotes

1.Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.-Edward M.Kennedy
2.No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.-Bertrand Russell
3.The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.-Alfred North Whitehead
4.Doubt who you will but never yourself.-Christine Bouvee
5.Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.-Fulton Sheen

Four great quotes

1.Adventure is just bad planning.-Roald Amundsen
2.Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.-Philip Guedalla
3.Politics is not the art of the possible.It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.-John Kenneth Galbraith
4.Why are our days numbered and not,say lettered?-Woody Allen

Seven great quotes

1.The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops working until you stand up to speak in public.-George Jessel
2.My own business always bores me to death;I prefer other people's.-Oscar Wilde
3.The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.-George Orwell
4.I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.-Tom Lehrer
5.A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.-Katharine Whitehorn
6.There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.-Arthur Honegger
7.Life is tough and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.-Salma Hayek

Correction

The above letter from The Montreal Gazette was from October 16,2006,not Oct 16,2008.

Great letter about Anglos in The Montreal Gazette

Without anglos,Montreal would be flat.
Re:``Separatists oppose anglo superhospital''(Gazette,Oct 13).
While we're talking percentages:I'd like to say that anglos are like the alcohol in wine:Without us 12 per cent Montreal would be grape juice.
-Alex Ambroziak,
Montreal,
Letter to Editor,MONTREAL
Gazette,Oct 16,2008.

Five great quotes

1.Words,once they are printed,have a life of their own.-Carol Burnett
2.If you write about what you know,you will keep on writing the same thing,and you will never know any more than you do now.-George Bowering
3.First keep the peace within yourself,then you can also bring peace to others.-Thomas Kempis
4.Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.-Ernest Haskins
5.The trouble with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.-C.S.Lewis

More quotes to ponder

1.Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.-Stanley Kunitz
2.Nothing ever really sets human nature free,but self-control.-Phyllis Bottome
3.How good is their best?And how good is their rest?The first is a question to be asked of an artist.Both are questions to be asked of a culture.-Lee Murray

Two good quotes and proverbs

1.I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.-Oscar Wilde,THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
2.Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune.-Chinese proverb

Three good quotes and proverbs

1.A bitter truth is better than a sweet lie.-Zbignew Herbert
2.Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.-A.R.Ammons
3.Better to master a small skill than to accunulate a big fortune.-Chinese proverb

Great website on a Vegetarian Mormon

Visit http://veggiemos.blogspot.com

Two good blogs

1 http://undergroundreptiles.blogspot.com
2 http://antireptile.blogspot.com

Four good quotes

1.I am ---a mushroom
On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.-John Ford
2.A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.-George Moore
3.Birds sing after a storm;why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?-Rose F.Kennedy
4.Those who agree with us may not be right,but we admire their astuteness.-Cullen Hightower

Three good quotes

1.Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing,quiet activities that will help you relax.-Dianne Hales
2.Good laws have their origins in bad morals.-Ambrosius Macrobius
3.Great artists do not copy what they see,but what they desire.-Theophile Gautier

A duo of good quotes

1.The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.-William Blake
2.A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.-Samuel Johnson

A quartet of good quotes

1.A book that is shut is but a block.-Thomas Fuller
2.I'm not against the police;I'm just afraid of them.-Alfred Hitchcock
3.If you must choose between the chances,choose the odd.-W.H.Auden
4.To win without risk is to triumph without glory.-Pierre Corneille

A trio of good quotes

1.A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.-Arthur Wing Pinero
2.I had two children---It is the greatest act of creativity and the one which is most likely to make you question other forms of creativity.-Eavan Boland
3.Aim at heaven and you will get Earth thrown in.Aim at Earth and you get neither.-C.S.Lewis

Nine great quotes and proverbs

1.I myself am made entirely of flaws,stitched together with good intentions.-Augusten Burroughs
2.An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.-Henri Frederic Amiel
3.We are made to persist.That's how we find out who we are.-Tobias Wolf
4. A special gift isn't bestowed on us by God Almighty,but by another God called hard work.I was my own creator.-Radmilla Lazic
5.Politicians are not born,they are excreted.-Cicero
6.Pictures are for entertainment,messages should be delivered by Western Union.-Samuel Goldwyn
7.A poem is something a poet makes;it's not the life he lives.-David Biespiel
8.Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.-Louis Henry Sullivan
9.There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.-Robert Lynd,THE BLUE LION AND OTHER ESSAYS.