A quote and a proverb

1.Power without responsibility:the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.-Rudyard Kipling
2.Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers.-Chinese proverb

Great quote by Maya Angelou

A day away acts as spring tonic.It can dispel rancor,transform indecision,and renew the spirit.-Maya Angelou(b.1928).U.S.author and poet

A trio of good quotes for Wednesday

1.He that hath no fools,knaves or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.-Thomas Fuller,1732
2.If you're naturally kind,you attract a lot of people you don't like.-William Feather
3.Revenge is sweet and not fattening.-Alfred Hitchcock

Great quote by Don Marquis

Honesty is a good thing but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.-Don Marquis

A trio of good quotes for Sunday

1.Every spring is the only spring----a perpetual astonishment.-Ellis Peters
2.I always turn to the sport pages first,which records people's accomplishments.The front page has nothing but man's failures.-Earl Warren
3.Our business in this world is not to succeed,but to continue to fail in good spirits.-Robert Louis Stevenson

Great quote by H.L.Mencken

The average man does not want to be free.He simply wants to be safe.-H.L.Mencken

Thought-provoking Quote by Theodore Munger

As a mental discipline,the reading of newspapers is hurtful.What can be worse for the mind than to think of 40 things in 10 minutes?-Theodore Munger(1830-1910),American clergyman

A couple of good quotes

1.The more freedom we enjoy,the greater the responsibility we bear.-Oscar Arias Sanchez
2.The public---demands certainties---But there are no certainties.-H.L.Mencken

Great quote by Ray Bradbury on writing

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.-Ray Bradbury

Black blizzard

Black blizzard-Canadian Midwest word for a dust storm.

Jambuster

Jambuster-Mannitoban word for a jelly-filled doughnut.
Outside Mannitoba and Thunder Bay,Ontario & maybe Saskatchewan,few other Canadians or North Americans know this word at all.

Two great quotes

1.Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,and just before you realize what's wrong with it.-Joe Moore
2.We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth,and listening to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.-Patrick Henry

Three good quotes

1.Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.It is time to acknowledge this,perhaps even to learn to do it better.-Lewis Thomas
2.Sadness flies away on the wings of time.-Jean de La Fontaine
3.The more unintelligent a man is,the less mysterious existence seems to him.-Arthur Schopenhauer

Great quote by Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves.A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men.-Herman Melville

A couple of thought-provoking quotes for Friday

1.You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.-John Wooden(1910-),U.S. basketball player and coach
2.Never swear,for that is a crime without excuse as there is no pleasure in it.-The Atlantic Monthly Almanac,1926.

Three great quotes for Thursday

1.There's always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.-Graham Greene
2.Partial culture runs to the ornate,extreme culture to simplicity.-Christian Bovee(1820-1904)
3.Spring is nature's way of saying ,'Let's party!'-Robin Williams

A trio of good quotes

1.The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.-Henry Kissinger
2.Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.-Yogi Berra
3.The more original a discovery,the more obvious it seems afterwards.-Arthur Koestler

Great quote by George Santayana

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect,and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.-George Santayana

Great quote by Malcolm Ritter

Repeated polls over the years have found people's biggest lifetime regret is not getting enough education or not taking it seriously enough.-Malcolm Ritter,San Francisco Chronicle,October 25,1993

Two quotes by W.H.Auden

1.One notices,
if one will trust one's eyes,
The shadow cast by language,
upon truth.-W.H.Auden
2.Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.-Wystan Hugh Auden

A trio of interesting quotes

1.An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.-Friedrich Engels
2.The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.-Victor Borge
3.All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.-Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Two good quotes for Monday

1.It is our responsibilities,not ourselves,that we should take seriously.-Peter Ustinov
2.Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessaries.-Frank Lloyd Wright(1867-1959),U.S.architect

Two more good quotes

1.America had often been discovered before Columbus,but it had always been hushed up.-Oscar Wilde
2.I live on good soup,and not on fine language.-Moliere

A trio of good quotes for Friday

1.If you can count your money,you don't have a billion dollars.-J.Paul Getty
2.The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.-Stephen Covey
3.People who understand only what can be explained understand very little.-Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach(1830-1916)

Two great quotes

1.There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.-Tennessee Williams
2.We create ourselves by our choices.-Kierkegaard

A duo of great quotes

1.Money is the root of all evil ,and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.-Louisa May Alcott
2.The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality.-Lewis Lapham(1935-),U.S. editor and essayist

Olive oil brand you just finished consuming

In February 2010,I finished consuming a 500g glass bottle of Pure Cortina olive oil.It was rich-tasting ,delicious and the bottle was worth the price.It was a product of Italy.

Good quote by Bertha Calloway

We cannot direct the wind,but we can adjust the sails.-Bertha Calloway