Very good quote on money

There is a serious defect in thinking of someone who wants more than anything else to become rich.As long as they don't have the money,it'll seem like a worthwhile goal.Once they do ,they'll understand how important other things are---and always have been.-Benjamin Jowett(1817-93),English scholar and theologian.

Interesting quote by Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.-Newt Gingrich(1943-),U.S politician

Interesting quote for librarians

The lost cannot be recovered;let us save what remains not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time,but by such a multiplication of copies,as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.-American president Thomas Jefferson

Great websites for film lovers

1 www.silverscreensuppers.com
2 http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com

Three great quotes for midweek

1.The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits(1949-),U.S. musician
2.Education is when you read the fine print.Experience is what you get if you don't.-Pete Seeger(1919-),U.S. folk singer and songwriter
3.Alimony is the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956)

A trio of interesting quotes

1.Progress isn't made by early risers.It's made by lazy men trying to find an easier way to do something.-Robert Heinlein,TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE.
2.I have a simple philosophy:Fill what's empty,empty what's full.-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
3.Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.-Faith Baldwin(1893-1978),American novelist

Five good quotes

1.Death is a distant rumour for the young.-Andy Rooney(b.1919),American radio and television writer
2.Failure is an event,never a person.-William D.Brown
3.Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.-Marshall Bates(1906-1974),U.S. zoologist
4.I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages.You can't divorce a book.-Gloria Swanson(1894-1983),American actress
5.We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.-Claude Bernard

Interesting blog

http://freedomeden.blogspot.com

Some very interesting quotes

1.Just when I found out the meaning of life,they changed it.-Comedian George Carlin
2.All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay,they're to keep deterioration at bay.-Jeanne Moreau
3.The light that burns twice as bright,burns half as long.-From the movie BLADE RUNNER(1982)
4.If I'm a legend,then why am I so lonely?-Judy Garland
5.Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.-John Lennon

Good quote on fast food

We think fast food is equivalent to pornography,nutritionally speaking.-Steve Elbert

Two good quotes

1.When hope is hungry,everything feeds it.-Mignon McLaughlin(1913-1983),U.S journalist
2.Tax the rich,feed the poor,till there are no rich no more.-Lyrics from the Ten Years After song
'I'd Love to Change The World.'

Great website on Middle Eastern vegetarians

http://vegetarianegypt.com

104th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Bella bella Donna(1970)-David-Alexandre Winter
2.Ne Ferme Pas Tes Yeux(1969)-David Alexandre Winter
3.Vole,S'Envole(1969)-David Alexandre Winter
4.Une Rose Pour Sandra(1971)-Jimmy Frey
5.Ils ont perdu leur chanteur-Gilles Marchal(A song in honor of Claude Francois)
6.Ce petit air là`-Les Miladys
7.Marin-Pierrette Roy(This song is a French version of the Lolita song 'SAILOR ' from 1960)
8.J'ai revé-Pierre Sénécal.(This song is a French version of the Bobby Darin song 'DREAM LOVER')
9.Jack and Jill-Chatelaine.(This song has the line ,'Jill,je t'aime à`la folie.')
9.I Wouldn't Give You Up-Chatelaine
10.Petite Fille,ne pleure pas-David Alexandre Winter

Quote on wines

Too many wines spoil the cook!-Signpost you saw in the kitchen of a home in Ontario

A couple of good quotes

1.I like these cold,gray winter days.Days like these let you savor a bad mood.-Bill Watterson
2.Slow down and enjoy life.It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast----you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.-Eddie Cantor

A trio of good quotes

1.Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.-Corrie Ten Boom
2.A goal without a plan is just a wish.-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3.It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality.Life is unfair.-John F.Kennedy

A couple of good quotes

1.True friendship is like sound health;the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.-Charles Caleb Colton
2.I don't know the key to success,but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.-Bill Cosby

Great website for frugal people and for bargain-hunting

www.walletpop.com

Great quote by Noel Coward

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one,have we?-Noel Coward,in his 1941 play BLITHE SPIRIT

Two great quotes

1.Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.-Seneca
2.Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path.-Maya Angelou

Quote on books

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.Nothing else that he builds ever lasts.-Clarence Shepard Day

Quote by Louise Bogan

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering;surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!-Louise Bogan

Quote by Elizabeth Carter

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.-Elizabeth Carter(1717-1806),English poet

Nickname

Lizard King-Nickname of pop star Jim Morrison,lead singer of the rock group DOORS.He died in 1971 of a drug overdose.

Quote on Hollywood

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.-Rita Rudner

Quote on books

There is no friend as loyal as a book.-Ernest Hemmingway

TWo great websites on silent film stars

1 www.alicecalhoun.net
2 www.nitanaldi.com

Quote by Linda Ellerbee

People are pretty much alike.It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.-Linda Ellerbee

Quote by Alec Bourne

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.-Alec Bourne

Quote by William Butler Yeats

We cannot have any unmixed emotions.There is always something in our enemy that we like,and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.-William Butler Yeats

Quote by Charles Bowden

I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert,and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control.-Author Charles Bowden

Interesting website

www.suddenlysenior.com

Large flower

Rafflesia is the world's largest flower.

Quote by Coco Chanel

1.Elegance is refusal.-Coco Chanel

Quote on worrying

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.It is time to acknowledge this,perhaps even learn to do it better.-Lewis Thomas(1913-93),Physician and author

Quote on selfishness

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.-Oscar Wilde