Saturday, January 31, 2009

68th list of French songs you like

1.Le Bateau De Minuit(1966)-Marc Gélinas
2.Je T'Aime(1966)-Les Bel Canto
3.Nathalie(1966)-Eric.(Eric's full name is Eric St-Pierre)
4.Le Folklore Américain-Sheila
5.Tu te souviendras de moi(1966)-Marc Gelinas
6.Il Fait Beau,Il Fait Bon-Claude Francois
7.Alouette(1968)-Gilles Dreu
8.Je T'Aime Je Te Veux-Johnny Farago
9.Je Pleure(1968)-Bruce Huard
10.Pour Toute La Vie-Les Hou-Loups

Seven great quotes

1.Always laugh when you can.It is cheap medicine.-Lord Byron
2.Work!Labour---the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow-security,leisure,joy,art,literature,even divinity itself.-Sean O'Casey
3.The physician can bury his mistakes,but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines----so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.-Frank Lloyd Wright
4.Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.-Elsa Maxwell
5.The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.-Egyptian proverb
6.If your actions speak louder than words,then you're not yelling loudly enough.-Rant of Tv pundit Stephen Colbert
7.The spirit of wonder which led Blake to Christian mysticism,Keats to Arcadian myth and Yeats to Fenians and fairies,is the very same spirit that moves great scientists;a spirit which,if fed back to poets in scientific guise,might inspire still greater poetry.-Richard Dawkins

Friday, January 30, 2009

Nine great quotes or proverbs

1.Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world-even if what is published is not true.-Richard Bach,from ILLUSIONS.
2.The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there is no law against wacking them around a little.-Joe Martin,''Porterfield.''
3.Ignorance is an evil weed,which dictators may cultivate among their dupes,but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.-William Beveridge(1879-1963),British economist
4.Take what you can use and let the rest go by.-Ken Kesey
5.Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.-Dr.Jeffrey Borenstein
6.Only a life lived for others is worth living.-Albert Einstein
7.Gifts should be handed,not thrown.-Danish proverb
8.Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.-Oscar Wilde
9.A musician must make music,an artist must paint,a poet must write,if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.-Abraham Maslow

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.Laughter is inner jogging.-Norman Cousins
2.Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.-Truman Capote
3.No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.-Thomas Mann
4.There's a fine line between genius and insanity.I have erased this line.-Oscar Levant
5.Life is a zoo in a jungle.-Peter De Vries
6.Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness but come down to the green valley of silliness.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
7.Overweight is one of America's major health problems;I think that is because we love our food too little;not too much.If it tastes fabulous,if every bite delights,if we really pay attention,we will end up eating less,not to deprive ourselves,but because we will be satisfied.-Barbara Kafka,cookbook writer

Friday, January 23, 2009

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.-Helen Keller
2.The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best---and therefore never scrutinize or question.-Stephen Jay Gould
3.A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.-Miscellaneous proverb
4.Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.-Mario Buatta
5.Laughter is the closest distance between two people.-Victor Borge

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Four good quotes

1.Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.-Sir Karl Popper(1902-94),Austrian-born British philosopher
2.We think in generalities,but we live in detail.-Alfred North Whitehead
3.Even more important than a friendly meeting is a friendly parting.-Chinese proverb
4.Fish,to taste good,must swim three times:in water,in butter,and in wine.-Polish proverb

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Two good quotes

1.All at last returns to the sea,the oceanus,the ocean river,like the ever-flowing stream of time,the beginning and the end.-Rachel Carson,THE SEA AROUND US.
2.Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.-Martin Sheen

A trio of great quotes

1.Great men are not always idiots.-Karen Elizabeth Gordon
2.Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.-Andy Rooney
3.When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live,it is always wise to adhere to that rule,unless it calls upon us to do something that is actually wrong.-Anthony Trollope

Five great quotes

1.Life is something that everyone should try at least once.-Henry Tillman
2.Observe the invincible tendency of the mind to unify.It is a law of our constitution that we should not contemplate things apart without the effort to arrange them in order with known facts and ascribe them to the same law.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.-Harlan Miller(Better Homes and Gardens)
4.The first drink with water,the second without water,the third like water.-Spanish proverb
5.Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It's the transition that's troublesome.-Isaac Asimov

Monday, January 19, 2009

Great quote

1.The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.-Thomas Henry Huxley

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Six good quotes or proverbs

1.It's when a leader has to move from 'Yes we can' to 'No you can't' that he is tested.-Matthew Parris in THE TIMES OF LONDON
2.Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.-Willa Cather,quote from 1922 novel'ONE OF OURS'.
3.I never know how much of what I say is true.-Bette Midler
4.Sentiment without action is the ruination of the soul.-Ed Abbey
5.When love and skill work together,expect a masterpiece.-John Ruskin
6.What is important is to keep learning,to enjoy challenge,and to tolerate ambiguity.In the end there are no certain answers.-Martina Horner

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Four great quotes

1.Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.-William James
2.He not busy being born is busy dying.-Bob Dylan
3.Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow,and when I woke up the pillow was gone.-Tommy Cooper
4.Seven days without laughter makes one weak.-Mort Walker

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Two great quotes

1.The best cure for worry,depression,melancholy,brooding,is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.-Arnold Bennett
2.I believe that every right implies a responsibility;every opportunity ,an obligation;every possession,a duty.-John D.Rockefeller Jr.

Five good quotes and proverbs

1.My self-esteem is so low that getting the Pulitzer Prize just made me break even.-Franz Wright
2.Recessions catch what the auditors miss.-John Kenneth Galbraith
3.I do most of my work sitting down;that's where I shine.-Robert Benchley
4.I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.-Jean Shinoda Bolen
5.Complain to one who can help you.-Yugoslav proverb

Three good quotes

1.Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.-Kin Hubbard
2.It's crazy,all this traveling people go in for----if you stay put,you can travel in your imagination.-George Mackay Brown
3.Gandhi said 'You must be the change you want to see in the world.'But may I also point out he drank his own urine,so let's not go overboard on his advice.-Stephen Colbert

A duo of good quotes

1.One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.-George Eliot
2.Gandhi said 'You must be the change you want to see in the world.'But may I also point out he drunk his own urine,so let's not go overboard on his advice.-Stephen Colbert

Four great quotes

1.The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.-John Berry
2.Equations are the devil's sentences.-Stephen Colbert,THE COLBERT REPORT
3.I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat,unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.-Stephen Colbert,THE COLBERT REPORT
4.A society that made 'nostalgia' a marketable community on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
-Christopher Lasch in THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM

Saying from my roommate

Argent facile;dépense facile.-Richard Therrien Godon(1952-2008)

A trio of great quotes

1.You can't turn back the clock.But you can wind it up again.-Bonnie Prudden
2.Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.All life is an experiment.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.As I grow older,I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.-H.Rider Haggard,KING SOLOMON'S MINES

Two great quotes

1.Danger and delight grow on one stalk.-English proverb
2.Cows forget that they were calves.-Russian proverb

Great quote on obstacles

Obstacles are a natural part of life,just as boulders are a natural part of the course of a river.The river does not complain or get depressed because there are boulders in its path.- Quote from the ancient Chinese book the I CHING.

Great quote by Logan Pearsall Smith

1.When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers,idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.-Logan Pearsall Smith

Three great quotes

1.The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.-Jose Ortega Y Gasset
2.If you want a place in the sun,you must leave the shade of the family tree.-Osage saying
3.People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.-Lee Iacocca

Friday, January 09, 2009

Three good quotes and proverbs

1.An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.-Benjamin Franklin
2.The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.-John Berry
3.Adventure is not outside;it is within.-Ray Stannard Baker

A quartet of quotes and proverbs

1.Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence.Imagination,not invention,is the supreme master of art as of life.-Joseph Conrad
2.Happiness arises in a state of peace,not tumult.-Anne Radcliffe
3.We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.-Charles Kingsley
4.Every dog has his day,unless he loses his tail,then he has a weak end.-June Carter

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.-Swedish proverb
2.Ideas without action are worthless.-Harvey Mackay
3.Fear is the main source of superstition,and one of the main sources of cruelty.To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.-Bertrand Russell
4.Do not weep.Do not wax indignant.Understand.-Baruch Spinoza
5.Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.-Garrison Keillor
6.Happiness depends upon ourselves.-Aristotle
7.Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.-Gloria Steinem