Great letter from Montreal Gazette

Small and bright.
Dinosaurs were too big to fail.And then they failed.The Roman Empire was too big to fail.And then it failed.Circuit City was too big to fail.And then Circuit City failed.
The trick is to make yourself as small as a July firefly.Light up the night sky in your small way.It is small that remains beautiful.
-Ron Huza,
Montreal,
Letter to Editor,MONTREAL GAZETTE,March 11,2009

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A half-dozen good quotes

1.Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.-Gertrude Stein
2.All men whilst they are awake are in one common world;but each of them when he is asleep,is in a world of his own.-Plutarch
3.Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.-Dorothy Parker
4.The factory of the future will have only two employees,a man and a dog.The man will be there to feed the dog.The dog will be there to stop the man touching the equipment.-Warren Bennis,business professor and author.
5.I'd like to get the government out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.-Joseph Heller
6.Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?-Steve Jobs

A duo of good quotes

1.There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.-Molière
2..A worker may be the hammer's master,but the hammer still prevails.A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled,while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.-Milan Kundera

Three good quotes

1.As for disappointing them,I should not so much mind;but I can't abide to disappoint myself.-Oliver Goldsmith
2.In every parting there is an image of death.-George Eliot
3.The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do,in the course of a burning effort to do it better.-Elizabeth Bowen

Two good quotes

1.In a time of violence,the task of poetry is in some way to reconcile us to our world and to allow us a measure of tenderness and grace with which to exist.-Meena Alexander
2.If I had thought a man had never committed a sin in his life,I don't think I'd want to talk with him.A man with flaws is more interesting.-Kirk Douglas

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.-Bulgarian proverb
2.Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.-Jules Feiffer
3.The country rooster does not crow in the town.-African(Swahili)proverb
4.It is better to come from a broken home than to live in one.-Old proverb
5.The thing about writing is that,if you have the impulse,you will find the time.-Seamus Heaney
6.Technology is making gestures precise and brutal,and with them men.It expels from movements all hesitation,deliberation,civility.-Theodor Adorno(1903-69),German phiosopher and musicologist as well as sociologist
7.Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.-Voltaire

Five great quotes

1.Among the things that money can't buy is what it used to.-Max Kauffmann
2.You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.-Brock Chisholm
3.A closed mind is like a closed book;just a block of wood.-Chinese proverb
4.It doesn't hurt to be optimistic.You can always cry later.-Lucimar Santos De Lima
5.Poetry cannot be defined,only experienced.-Christopher Logue

A duo of quotes

1.Depression is the inability to construct a future.-Rollo May
2.I don't believe in writing every day,though I'm at my desk every day.-Stanley Kunitz

Three fine quotes

1.The blind man is laughing at the bald head.-Persian proverb
2.Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.-John Kenneth Galbraith
3.Penetrating so many secrets,we cease to believe in the unknowable.But there it sits ,nevertheless,calmly licking its chops.-H.L.Mencken

Three great quotes

1.It is nobler to declare onself wrong than to insist on being right--especially when one is right.-Friedrich Nietzsche
2.You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.-Yoko Ono
3.I see and approve better things,but follow worse.-Ovid

Two good quotes

1.An optimist is the human personification of spring.-Susan Bissonette
2.The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning but by understanding what we learn.-Joseph Whitney

A quote and a proverb

1.Better do a kindness near home than go far to burn incense.-Chinese proverb
2.Change is not always progress---A fever of newness has been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.-Henry Ford

Three good quotes

1.The good things of life are not to be had singly,but come to us with a mixture.-Charles Lamb
2.You never want to give a fan a chance to find out whether it was passion or habit.-Ken Dryden
3.It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.-Albert Camus

A trio of good quotes

1.I love spring anywhere,but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.-Ruth Snout
2.Get up,stand up,
Stand up for your rights.
Get up,stand up.
Don't give up the fight.-Bob Marley
3.The day will come when,after harnessing space,the winds,the tides and gravitation,we shall harness for God the energies of love.And on that day,for the second time in the history of the world,we shall have discovered fire.-Tielhard de Chardin

Two good quotes

1.I hate television.I hate it as much as I hate peanuts.But I can't stop eating peanuts.-Orson Welles
2.Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.-Sir Arthur Helps

75th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Les Mots D'Amour(1969)-Chantal Pary
2.Baby Pop-France Gall
3.J'attendrai-Dalida
4.Paroles,Paroles-Dalida
5.Il Faut Trouver Le Temps d'Aimer-Petula CLark
6.L'Aigle Noir-Marie Carmen
7.La Chanson populaire(1974)-Claude Francois
8.Souvenirs,Souvenirs-Johnny Hallyday
9.Chanson sur une drôle de vie-Véronique Sanson
10.La Moustache à Papa(1971)-Annie Labelle

74th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Dis-lui-Sultans
2.Reste près de moi(1970)-Ginette Reno
3.Loddy Lo-Donald Lautrec
4.Il Faut se dire Adieu-Martine et Gilles Brown
5.Je ne pense qu' à ca(1972)-Steve Fiset
6.Donne Ton Coeur Donne Ta Vie(1971)-Mireille Mathieu
7.Que Valor La Vida(1969)-Marie Laforet
8.San Francisco-Johnny Hallyday(This is a French version of the Scott McKenzie song 'SAN FRANCISCO')
9.L'Amour N'Attend Pas (1966)-Claire Lepage
10.Bambino-Dalida

Three good proverbs or quotes

1.When you ain't got no education,you just got to use your brains.-Old Berber saying
2.I am a deeply superficial person.-Andy Warhol
3.The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.-Epictetus

A duo of interesting quotes

1.As long as I have a want,I have a reason for living.Satisfaction is death.-George Bernard Shaw
2.Nobody speaks the truth,when there's something they must have.-Elizabeth Bowen

Two good quotes

1.You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.-Warren Buffett
2.Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment.They farm fungi,raise aphids as livestock,launch armies into war,use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies,capture slaves,engage in child labour,exchange information ceaselessly.They do everything but watch television.-Lewis Thomas

A trio of good quotes

1.These are not books,lumps of lifeless paper,but minds alive on the shelves.-Gilbert Highet
2.Turbulence is life force.It is opportunity.-Ramsay Clark
3.You only find out who is swimming naked when the tidy goes out.-Warren Buffett

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.Humor is like a disobedient dog.You call its name and it runs in the other direction.-Billy Collins
2.You live and learn.At any ratye,you live.-Douglas Adams
3.I live in the realm of romantic possibility.-Stevie Nicks
4.Too many people live their life by a clock instead of a compass.-Stephen Covey
5.While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts,how can we expect ideal conditions on this earth?-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Three good quotes and proverbs

1.Filthy water cannot be washed.-West African proverb
2.Fast Ripe,Fast Rotten.-Japanese proverb
3.Every time you spend money,you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.-Anna Lappe

73rd list of 10 French songs you like

1.Le Bateau De Minuit-Marc Gélinas
2.Capri,c'est fini-Hervé Vilard
3.Mourir ou vivre-Hervé Vilard
4.Mon Coeur Est En prison(1965)-Rosita Salvador
5.Je pense que c'est le temps(1975)-Louise Forestière
6.Et puis soudain-Ginette Reno
7.Un Jour L'Amour Viendra(1971)-Anne Renée.(This song is a French version of the 1971 Lynn Anderson song 'ROSE GARDEN')
8.L'Amour que j'ai pour toi(1971)-Francois et Liette
9.Moi et Mon Camion(1971)-Hugues Aufray
10.New York,New York-Mireille Mathieu(This song is a French version of the Frank Sinatra song 'NEW YORK ,NEW YORK')

Seven great quotes

1.Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.-William Saroyan
2.My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.-Bertrand Russell
3.Prose adds.A poem multiplies.-David Burnett
4.Insanity is hereditary----you get it from your kids.-Sam Levenson
5.Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.-Alice Walker
6.If you want a picture of the future,imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever.-George Orwell,1984.
7.Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.-Irving Cobbs

72nd list of 10 French songs you like a lot

1.Mon Coeur D'Attache(1966)-Enrico Macias
2.Ca serait beau(1966)-Richard Anthony.(This song starts with the line 'Si j'avais des ailes.')
3.Sur La Route Onze-Jean- Pierre Ferland
4.Ne t'en fais pas(1965)-Michèle Richard
5.En Suivant L'Étoile(1968)-Marc Gélinas et Ginette Ravel
6.C'est Toi Que je t'aime(1965)-Gilles Brown.(This is a French version of the Roy Orbison song'ONLY THE LONELY')
7.Pourquoi je t'aime(1968)-Christine Chartrand
8.Dè`s que je me réveille(1967)-Enrico Macias
9.Louise(1964)-Pierre Lalonde
10.My My My(1972)-Karo

A trio of good quotes

1.Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson:you find the present tense,but the past perfect!-Owens Lee Pomeroy
2.One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.-Comedian Dan Bennett
3.Somehow in writing about extreme emotional states your craft develops;you've got to play your technique against something extremely important.-Douglas Dunn

Three good quotes or proverbs

1.The illegal we do immediately.The unconstitutional takes a little longer.-Henry Kissinger
2.After dinner,rest;after supper walk a mile.-Arab proverb
3..Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.-Robert G.Ingersoll

Two good quotes

1.Paradox is the smile of truth.-Alicia Ostriker
2.I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.-Harry Mahtar

Two more great quotes

1.All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.-Henry Mitchell
2.To freely bloom-that is my definition of success.-Gerry Spence

Three good quotes

1.I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.-Aeschylus
2.Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.-Orson Scott Card
3.A secret's worth depends on the people from which it must be kept.-Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A duo of good quotes

1.Profit is sweet,even if it comes from deception.-Sophocles
2.A football stadium really is a contemporary colosseum,which is its predecessor.-Donald Lipski

Three good quotes or proverbs

1.Some people fear gaining fame the way pigs fear gaining weight.-Chinese proverb
2.A writer is not interested in explaining reality;he's interested in capturing it.-Brendan Kennelly
3.Although prepared for martyrdom,I prefered that it be postponed.-Sir Winston Churchill

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A couple of good quotes

1.When the gods wish to punish us,they answer our prayers.-Oscar Wilde
2.The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.-Dudley Moore

Two great quotes

1.You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.-Bertolt Brecht
2.A wonderful thing about a book,in contrast to a computer screen,is that you can take it to bed with you.-Daniel J.Boorstin

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.Thinking is the hardest work there is,which is the probable reason why so few people engage it.-Henry Ford
2.To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.-George Macdonald
3.Never do anything standing that you can do sitting,or anything sitting that you can do lying down.-Chinese proverb
4.What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.Injustice is relatively easy to bear;it is justice that hurts.-H.L.Mencken
6.None but the brave deserves the fair.-John Dryden
7.It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.-Thomas Macaulay