Three more good quotes for Sunday

1.Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.-Auguste Rodin
2.A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.-George Bernard Shaw
3.The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good,inspite of all the people who say he is very good.-Robert Graves

Five great quotes for Sunday

1.The future,according to some scientists,will be exactly like the past,only far more expensive.-John Sladek
2.The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.-Paul Valery
3..Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.-Iris Murdoch
4.Poetry is an oral tradition.I think it immensely enhances the person's poetry for an audience to hear it in the poet's voice.-Maxine Kumin
5.For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life,please press three.-Alice Kahn

Two more quotes for Friday

1.Praise the bridge that carried you over.-George Colman
2.In youth the days are short and the years are long;in old age the years are short and the days long.-Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Two great quotes

1.The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.-John Cowper Powys(1872-1963),British author and critic.
2.Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.-Simone Weil

A quartet of four quotes

1.The serious form of pollution is mind pollution.-Roderick Nash
2.War would end if the dead could return.-Stanley Baldwin
3.A new broom sweeps clean,but the old broom knows the corners.-Irish proverb
4.It is not that everyone with a laptop thinks they can write a book.The problem is that everyone with a laptop does write a book.-Robert Fisk,in THE INDEPENDENT.

A duo of great quotes for Saturday

1.You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're with.-Wayne Dyer
2.There are worse crimes than burning books.One of them is not reading them.-Joseph Brodsky

A couple of good quotes for Friday

1.Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.-Sidney J.Harris
2.I improve on misquotation.-Cary Grant

Great quote on Regret

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.-Sydney Harris

Three great quotes for Sunday

1.You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.-James Thurber
2.When you reach out and touch other human beings,it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.-Audré Lord
3.Pain is important:how we evade it,how we succumb to it,how we deal with it,how we transcend it-Audré Lord

A couple of great quotes for Saturday

1.I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets.It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.-Jean Kerr
2.Don't pray for rain if you are going to complain about the mud.-Ancient proverb

Great quote on the moon

I don't know if there are men on the moon,but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.-George Bernard Shaw

Valium

The Rolling Stones called Valium `Mother's Little Helper.'

Martin Strel

A Slovenian adventurer named Martin Strel swam the length of the Amazon river in Brazil.It took him over nine weeks to travel more than 3,000 miles.Previously he had breast-stroked his way down the entire Yangtze River in Canada,a distance of almost 2,500 miles.He scoffed at the idea of conquering the River Nile in Egypt,however.``It's long,but not challenging enough,'' he said.''It is just a small creek.''-From Rob Brezsny's column,Freewill Astrology,Montreal Mirror,August 6-12,2009.

A trio of great quotes

1.Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.-R.Buckminster Fuller
2.A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting.It is not interesting to be always unhappy,engrossed with oneself,malignant and ungrateful,and never quite in touch with reality.-Cyril Connolly
3.The greatest gift is a passion for reading.It is cheap,it consoles,it distracts,it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a side kind.It is moral illumination.-Elizabeth Hardwick

A great quote by Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden----a single friend,my world.-Leo Buscaglia

Two great quotes for Friday

1.Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.-Gertrude Stein
2.Nothing is permanent in this wicked world-not even our troubles.-Charlie Chaplin

Great quote on the mind

The mind is like an iceberg,it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.-Sigmund Freud

A couple of great quotes

1.The freelance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.-Robert Benchley
2.An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.-William Dean Howells

A couple of good quotes for Friday

1.Storytelling reveals meaning without commiting the error of defining it.-Hannah Arendt
2.Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.-Will Durant

81st list of 10 French songs you love

1.Si tu as besoin d'un ami(1964)-Richard Anthony
2.Écoute dans le vent-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of the Bob Dylan song'BLOWING IN THE WIND')
3.Au revoir mon amour-Richard Anthony
4.Je me suis souvent demandé-Richard Anthony
5.Je ne vois que toi-Richard Anthony
6.Le soleil ne brille plus-Richard Anthony
7.J'irai pleurer sous la pluie-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of the Everley Brothers song'CRYING IN THE RAIN.')
8.Que c'est triste Venice-Charles Aznavour
9.Fiche le camp Jack-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of the Ray Charles song 'HIT THE ROAD JACK')
10.La Fleur aux dents-Joe Dassin

Two great quotes

1.As I look back upon my life,I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next one.-Margaret Sanger
2.In my fantasy,nobody ever loves me for my mind.-Nora Ephron

Three great quotes

1.If you haven't got any charity in your heart,you have the worst kind of heart trouble.-Bob Hope
2.A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.-Henri P.Stendhal
3.More look up and admire the stars.A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.-H.Jackson Brown,Jr.

Two great quotes

1.Bores bore each other too;but it never seems to teach them anything.-Don Marquis
2.Sometimes creativity is a compulsion,not an ambition.-Edward Norton

Two great quotes

1.If people behaved like governments,you'd call the cops.-Kelvin Throop
2.Everybody lies,but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.-Nick Diamos

A quartet of great quotes at Mcgill

1.Ideologies separate us.Dreams and anguish bring us together.-Eugene Ionesco
2.There will be a rain dance Friday night,weather permitting.-George Carlin
3.We forget the water cycle and the life cycle are one.-Jacques Cousteau
4.Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.-William Golding

80th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Pour Ne pas vivre seul-Dalida
2.Tout se passe dans les yeux-Dick Rivers
3.À Corps Perdu-Mike Brant
4.Aide moi à passer la nuit-Claude Valade(This song is a French version of the Sammi Smith song `Help Me Make It Through The Night')
5.Les Gitans-Dalida
6.Tico Tico-Dalida
7.Tant Que Nous Nous Aimerons-Claude Valade and Luis Mariano
8.Sous Le Ciel écossais(1961)-Dick Rivers et les Chats Sauvages
9.La rue des coeurs perdus-Richard Anthony
10.Sur Le Toit-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of The Drifters song 'UP ON THE ROOF.' from 1961)

Two great quotes

1.Ideas are like rabbits.You get a couple and learn how to handle them,and pretty soon you have a dozen of them.-John Steinbeck
2..Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.-Dale CArnegie

A trio of interesting quotes for Saturday

1.It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.-H.L.Mencken
2.The great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.-Charles De Gaulle
3.Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and ,instead of bleeding ,he sings.-Ed Gardner