Four great quotes

1.Dog eat dog----that's what our culture is----Not cooperation,but assassination.-Alice Neel
2.What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband?
About 30 pounds.-Cindy Gardner
3.'Trusting to luck' is another name for 'trusting to laziness.'-Josh Billings
4.A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.-Groucho Marx

A good website for composters in Montreal

www.compostmontreal.com is a great website to visit for all those interested in composting in Montreal

A good blog from Montreal

http://montrealsimon.blogspot.com is a great blog from Montreal with a lot of interesting postings and a lot of cool links.

A triplet of quotes

1.The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.-Spiritual activist Thomas Merton
2.The man who has planned badly,if fortune is on his side,may have had a stroke of luck;but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.-Herodotus
3.No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.-Bill Cosby
2.If you think the system is wotrking,ask someone who isn't.-American saying
3.Do not fear death so much,but rather the inadequate life.-Bertolt Brecht
4.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.-Niels Bohr
5.Words do two major things:They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.-Jim Rohn
6.To accomplish great things,we must dream as well as act.-Anatole France
7.Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.-Seneca
8.Diligence is the mother of good fortune.-Miguel De Cervantes

A trio of good quotes

1.It's never just a game when you're winning.-George Carlin
2.The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.-Alfred Adler
3.It is in the 30s that we want friends.In the 40s we know they won't save us any more than love did.-F.Scott Fitzgerald

Seven good quotes

1.It is only the first step that is difficult.-Marie Devichy-Chaconne
2.Twice and twice over,as they say,good is to repeat and review what is good.-Plato
3.There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.-Kathleen Norris(1880-1966)
4.I believe in equality for everyone,except reporters and photographers.-Mahatma Gandhi
5.It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.-Scandinavian proverb
6.March is the Month of Expectation.-Emily Dickinson
7.Economics has never been a science--and it is even less now than a few years ago.-Paul A.Samuelson

A good quote and a good proverb

1.Once you learn to read,you will be forever free.-Frederick Douglass
2.It is good to know the truth,but it is better to speak of palm trees.-Arab proverb

A duo of good quotes

1.To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.-George Orwell
2.He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend,a wholesome counselor,a cheerful companion,an effectual comforter.By study,by reading,one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself,as in all weathers,as in all fortunes.-Barrow

Three great quotes

1.The quest for uncertainty blocks the search for meaning.Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.-Erich Fromm
2.Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.-Martin Luther King Jr.
3.Be modest!It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.-Jules Renard

Five good quotes and proverbs

1.Money is better than poverty,if only for financial reasons.-Woody Allen
2.Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression;if you hold down one thing,you hold down the adjoining.-Saul Bellow
3.Quality means doing it right when noone is watching.-Henry Ford
4.Soccer is the ballet of the masses.-Dmitri Shostakovich
5.Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.-Louis Pasteur

Three great quotes

1.Hope is like a road in the country;there never was a road ,but when many people walk on it,the road comes into existence.-Lin Yutang
2.What is now proved was once imagined.-William Blake
3.It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light,and certainly not desirable,as one's hat keeps blowing off.-Woody Allen

Four good quotes

1.Life is not separate from death.It only looks that way.-Native American proverb(Blackfoot)
2.Suppose a thousand suns should rise together in the sky.Such is the splendor of the shape of infinite God.-Hinduism
3.When genuine passion moves you,say what you've got to say,and say it hot.-D.H.Lawrence
4.Because I have loved life,I will have no sorrow to die.-Amelia Burr

Two good quotes

1.Listening,not imitation,may be the sincerest form of flattery.-Dr.Joyce Brothers
2.The dream may either repudiate the dreamer in a most painful way,or bolster him up morally.The first is likely to happen to people who---have too good an opinion of themselves;the second to those whose self-valuation is too low.-Carl Jung

Seven great quotes or proverbs

1.Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.-Vauvenargues(1715-1747)
2.Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.-George Washington
3.When you come to the end of your rope,tie a knot and hang on.-Franklin D.Roosevelt
4.Long absent,soon forgotten.-Romanian proverb
5.Wear the old coat and buy the new book.-Austin Phelps
6.A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.-Lyndon Baines Johnson
7.If you forsake a certainty for an uncertainty,you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.-Sanskrit proverb

71st list of 10 French songs you like a lot

1.Un Jeune Homme Bien-Petula Clark.(This song is a French version of the KINKS 1965 song'A WELL-RESPECTED MAN')
2.Senor et Senorita(1968)-Claire Lepage
3.Mes emmerdes-Charles Aznavour
4.Vous ma Lady(1973)-Hugues Aufray
5.C'est Bon Signe(1965)-Le 25ieme Regiment
6.Ya Ya-Joel Denis(This song is a French version of the Lee Dorsey 1966 song 'WORKING IN THE COALMINE.')
7.Hey Hey Lolita-Joel Denis
8.L'Amour(1966)-Therese Deroy
9.Donnez-moi un coin du ciel bleu-Pierre Senecal
9.Un Coin du ciel bleu-Pierre Senecal
10.Viens-en,viens-en-Suzanne Stevens

Three great quotes or proverbs

1.We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.If you can't lick 'em,join 'em.-American proverb
3.Only when we give joyfully,without hesitation or thought of gain,can we truly know what love means.-Leo Buscaglia

Five great quotes

1.Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.-Evan Esar
2.Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.-John Churton
3.Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear
the phone is for you.-Fran Leibowitz
4.Concision in style,precision in thought,decision in life.-Victor Hugo
5.Wisdom comes with winters.-Oscar Wilde,front-page quote,MONTREAL GAZETTE,FEB 20,2009