Sunday, May 31, 2009

Three great quotes

1.The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.-W.Somerset Maugham
2.All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.-Comedian and presidential candidate Pat Paulsen
3.All music is folk music.I ain't ever heard no horse sing a song.-Louis Armstrong

Two great quotes

1.Think wrongly,if you please,but in all cases think for yourself.-Doris Lessing
2.The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.-Helen Hayes

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A good quote and a good proverb

1.One should take no comfort in the hole at the other end of the boat.-Old African proverb
2.You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Five good quotes

1.Dogs come when they are called;cats take a message and get back to you.-Mary Bly
2.Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.-Frank Dane
3.The opposite of talking isn't listening.The opposite of talking is waiting.-Fran Lebowitz
4.Guilt:the gift that keeps on giving.-Erma Bombeck
5.Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.-Twyla Tharp

Friday, May 22, 2009

A couple of good quotes

1.Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.-Dutch proverb
2.There are horrible people,who instead of solving a problem,tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it.-Friedrich Nietzsche

Four great quotes

1.The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.-Robinson Jeffers
2.There is no dignity quite so impressive,and no independence quite so important,as living within your means.-Calvin Coolidge
3.Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.-Alexander Pope
4.He who must travel happily must travel light.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sunday, May 17, 2009

More interesting food blogs

A good blog by a vegan

http://joannavaught.com is a good blog for vegans

Three interesting quotes

1.The hand that holds the quill controls history.-Charles L.Blockson
2.In baiting a mousetrap with cheese,always leave room for the mouse.-Saki
3.All publicity is good,except an obituary notice.-Brendan Behan

Friday, May 15, 2009

A trio of great quotes

1.Love yourself first and everything falls into line.-Lucille Ball
2.The secret to staying young is to live honestly,eat slowly,and lie about your age.-Lucille Ball(1911-89)

Two great quotes

1.The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.-Jacob Bronowski
2.Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,but by the number of moments that take our breath away.-Anonymous(I saw this on a T-shirt on a woman in the metro)

Three great quotes

1.We must believe in luck.For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?-Jean Cocteau
2.Panics in some cases have their uses;they produce as much good as hurt.-Thomas Paine
3.Promote yourself but do not demote another.-Israel Salanter

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Three more good quotes

1.Do what you can with what you have where you are.-Theodore Roosevelt
2.A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once,and by car forever after.-Peter De Vries
3.Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure.We get very little wisdom from success,you know.-William Saroyan

Great quote on Talking

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.-Ann Landers

Four great quotes

1.Remember,Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did ,but backwards and in high heels.-Bob Thaves,``Frank and Ernest.''
2.A writer's adventure with words starts not with Shakespeare,but with doggerel and lullabies,with slide shows of fairy tales,with the deepest ,pre-language memory of a certain smell of damp leaves.-Kapka Kassabova
3.It is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.-Ellen Glasgow
4.The great civilizer on Earth seems to have been doubt.Doubt,the constantly debated and flexible inner condition of theological uncertainty,seems to have held people in thrall to ethical behaviour,while the true believers,of whatever stamp,religious or religious-statist,have done the murdering.-E.L.Doctorow

Three great quotes

1.I had a monumental idea this morning,but I didn't like it.-Samuel Goldwyn
2.Speeches are like steer horns----a point here,a point there and a lot of bull in between.-Evelyn Anderson
3.The conception of two people living together for 25 years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.-A.P.Herbert

A duo of good quotes

1.I'd like to think of my behaviour in the sixties as a 'learning experience'.Then again,I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience'.It makes me feel less stupid.-P.J.O'Rourke
2.General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.-Robert Sawyer

Two great quotes

1.An isolated individual does not exist.He who is sad,saddens others.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2.Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.-Marshall McLuhan

76th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Une Photo de Toi(1972)-Nicole Martin
2.Sacré Charlemagne(1965)-France Gall
3.Qu'est Devenu Notre passé?(1965)-Les Classels
4.À la fin de la soirée(1965)-Michèle Richard
5.Je m'en vais-Ginette Reno
6.Mary(1972)-Jacques Salvail
7.La Ballade de l'Amour(1972)-Roger Whittaker
8.Shalamako-Dick Rivers
9.Ton prénom,je l'aime-Dick Rivers
10.Reviens-Dick Rivers

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Three great quotes

1.When dealing with the insane,the best method is to pretend to be sane.-Herman Hesse
2.Who ever ceases to be a student has never been a student.-George Iles
3.When a man arrives at great prosperity,God did it;when he falls into disaster,he did it himself.-Mark Twain

Great blog on euthanasia

http://againsteuthanasia.blogspot.com is a great blog to visit.

Another great quote by Woody Allen

I am thankful for laughter,except when milk comes out of my nose.-Woody Allen

A quartet of great quotes and proverbs

1.Even brothers should keep careful accounts.-Chinese proverb
2.We are all pencils in the hands of God.-Mother Teresa
3.The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.-Kin Hubbard
4.In jazz,as in poetry,there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild.-Robert Pinsky

A duo of good quotes

1.The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.-H.W.Arnold
2.Dance like it hurts.Love like you need money.Work when people are watching.-Scott Adams

Four great quotes and proverbs

1.No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.-Thorstein Veblen
2.Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.-Old,but relevant Cree Indian proverb
3.There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.We are all crew.-Marshall McLuhan
4.It isn't what people think that is important,but the reason they think what they think.-Eugene Ionesco

Two great quotes

1.Facing that sheet of white paper can feel like a bad movie of Scott going to the South Pole.-Bill Manhire
2.We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.-Aesop

Friday, May 08, 2009

Great quote by MInnesota Fats

Dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.-Minnesota Fats

A duo of good quotes

1.Writing is a way not just of ordering and making sense of our experiences,but actually a means of opening ourselves to experience.-Peter Sansom
2.Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.-National Lampoon

Three great quotes and proverbs

1.Change our leaders,not our lightbulbs.-Thomas Friedman
2.To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.-Daniel Considine
3.The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.-Charlie Chaplin

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

A duo of good quotes

1.Ability will never catch up to the demand for it.-Malcolm Forbes
2.Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.-Don Wilder

A couple of good quotes

1.The vast wasteland of Tv is not interested in producing a better mousetrap but in producing a worse mouse.-Laurence C.Coughlin
2.Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.-Theodore Parker

Three good quotes

1.Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.-Walt Whitman
2.The most important thing about spaceship Earth:An instruction book didn't come with it.-R.Buckminster Fuller
3.The closest to perfect a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.-Stanley J.Randall