Monday, April 29, 2013

Another quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one was ever named ''Hero'' for following the crowd.Heroes set their own course.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Bryant H.McGill

There is no love without forgiveness,and there is no forgiveness without love.-Bryant H.McGill

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Say No to the demands of the world.Say YES to the longings of your own heart.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote on perfection

Perfection is the child of time.-Joseph Hall(1574-1656)

Quote on moderation

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.-Joseph Hall(1574-1656)

Quote from Joseph Hall

Death borders upon our birth,and our cradle stands in the grave.--Joseph Hall(1574-1656),English clergyman

Quote from Charles Morgan

As knowledge increases,wonder deepens.-Charles Morgan,English writer(1894-1958)

Quote from Tom Lehrer

Irreverence is easy-what's hard is wit.-Tom Lehrer

Quote from Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.-Winston Churchill

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life has no judgments.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life has no judgments.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Another quote from Tom Lehrer

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.-Tom Lehrer

Quote from Tom Lehrer

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.-Tom Lehrer

Quote from Jane Fonda

It's never too late----never too late to start over,never too late to be happy.-Jane Fonda

Ted Turner facts

Media mogul Ted Turner's father committed suicide on March 5,1963.Ted Turner himself suffers from bipolar disease.

Quote from mogul Ted Turner

You'll hardly ever find a superachiever anywhere who isn't motivated at least partially by a sense of insecurity.-Media mogul Ted Turner

Quote from James Allen

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.-James Allen

Quote from Jane Fonda

When you can't remember why you're hurt,that's when you're healed.-Jane Fonda

Quote from Joseph Hall

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired,but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.-Joseph Hall

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Quote from John Fowles

We all write poems.It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.-John Fowles

Great quote from Robert Louis Stevenson

A mortified appetite is never a wise companion.-Robert Louis Stevenson

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Quote from John Steinbeck

No man should be buried in alien soil.-Writer John Steinbeck ,to Elaine Steinbeck a few days before his death.

Quote from Eileen Caddy

Seek always for the answers within.Be not influenced by those around you -by their thoughts or their words.-Eileen Caddy

Great quote from Joan Baez

If it's natural to kill,how come men have to go into training to learn how?-Joan Baez(b.1941),Singer and activist

Quote from Joan Baez

That's what nonviolence is-organized love.-Singer Joan Baez

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Quote from Eileen Caddy

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.-Eileen Caddy

Quote from Joan Baez

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people,the hardest is with one.-Joan Baez,activist and folk singer

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Quote from Carl Sandburg

There is an eagle in me that wants me to soar,and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.-Carl Sandburg(1879-1967)

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Quote from Jack Webster on talk radio

Talk radio let people blow off steam.It's a release valve that prevents the dangerous build-up of social pressure the same way a good drama gives vent to our emotions.Talk radio acts as a catharsis.
                                        Talk radio isn't a panacea for society's woes ,but it helps give ordinary people a bit of clout .And it helps generate the momentum needed for social change.-Canadian pioneering talk show host Jack Webster(b.1918),from his book AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY,page 118 and 119

Quote from Arthur Chapman

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm,tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.-Arthur Chapman,U.S.poet(1873-1935)

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Quote from Richie Allen

You gotta be careful with your body.Your body is like a bar of soap.The more you use it,the more it wears down.-Richie Allen

Great quote on eavesdropping

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.-Thornton Wilder

Great quote from Don Rickles

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.-Don Rickles

Excellent quote from H.Jackson Brown Jr.

Strive for excellence,not perfection.-H.Jackson Brown Jr.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Quote from Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.-Robert Delaunay

Another quote from Florida Scott Maxwell

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz when I wait for the kettle to boil.The pleasure is for the old who live alone.-Florida Scott-Maxwell

Great quote on the tax code

Our tax code is so long it makes WAR AND PEACE seem breezy.-Steven LaTourette

Quote on anger

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its right channel.-Florida Scott Maxwell

Another quote from Florida Scott Maxwell

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.-Florida Scott Maxwell,THE MEASURE OF MY DAYS.

Quote from Florida Scott Maxwell

I grow more intense as I age.-Florida Scott Maxwell

Superb quote from Tom Waits

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade.We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac.We're all looking at the wrapping.But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.-Tom Waits

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

When reality looks too ugly,fantasize.-Jimmy Buffett,from his book A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY.

Quote on religion

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion,which is why a lot of people find it.-Singer and author Jimmy Buffett,in his autobiographical book A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY.

Unusual song title

If the Phone Doesn't Ring,It's Me.-A Jimmy Buffett song title

Quote from H.L.Mencken

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help them.-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956)

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

I just want to live happily ever after,every now and then.-Singer Jimmy Buffett

Great quote from Jimmy Buffett

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.-Singer and author Jimmy Buffett

Quote on death

You know Death will get you in the end,but if you are smart and have a sense of humor,you can thumb your nose at it for a while.-Jimmy Buffett,from his autobiographical book A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY.

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here.It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.-Singer Jimmy Buffett

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thinking is what people resort to after all else fails.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

Find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor.-Singer Jimmy Buffett

Another quote from Jimmy Buffett

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.-Singer Jimmy Buffett

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth,but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.-Singer and author Jimmy Buffett,from his book A SALTY PIECE OF LAND

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Yesterday is like a dung heap;you can complain about the smell,or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thoughtful quote from Robert Lynd

To go through life without ever being converted to anything seems a mark of insensitiveness.The ideal world would be a world in which everybody was capable of conversion and in which at the same time the converts would admit the possibility that they might be mistaken.-Robert Lynd(1879-1949),Irish journalist and essayist.

Motivational quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.Go forward and make your dreams come true.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another quote from David Ruggles

A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.-David Ruggles

Quote from Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes,so live not in your yesterdays ,not just for tomorrow,but in the here and now.Keep moving and forget the post-mortems;and remember no one can get the jump on the future.-Carl Sandburg(1878-1967).

Quote from David Ruggles

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.-David Ruggles,an anti-slavery activist

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Another quote from Robert Lynd

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.-Robert Lynd

Quote from Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving.Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a tea spoon .At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.-Jim Rohn

Quote from Percy Ross

Many drops make a bucket,many buckets make a pond,many ponds make a lake,and many lakes make an ocean.-American columnist Percy Ross

Superb quote on advice

We give advice by the bucket,but we take it by the grain.-William R.Alger,American theologian,1822-1905

Quote from Robert Lynd

I always feel an optimist when I emerge from a tunnel.-Robert Lynd(1879-1949)

Quote from Dagobert Runes

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.-Dagobert Runes,philosopher and author(1902-1982)

Quote from Robert Lynd

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering,but only to one's own suffering.-Robert Lynd(1879-1949)

Quote from Anthony Jay

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles.Other people can cope with the waves,it's his job to watch the tide.-Anthony Jay

Quote from George Caleb Bingham

Men are always praising the by-gone time,for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth ;the weak the time of their strenth;the sick the season of their vigor;and the disappointed the spring-tide of their hopes.-George Caleb Bingham

Quote on genius

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.-Robert Lynd,Irish journalist and essayist(1879-1949)

Another quote from Robert Lynd

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.-Robert Lynd

Quote from Robert Lynd

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.-Robert Lynd

Quote from Rumi

Don't grieve.Anything you lose comes 'round in another form.-Rumi

Quote from Robert Lynd

It may be that all games are silly.But then ,so are humans.-Robert Lynd

Friday, April 12, 2013

Quote on Friendship

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.-Irish journalist and essayist Robert Lynd(1879-1949)

Quote on speed

I foresee the time when human beings,having ceased to regard speed as a novelty,will lose much of their taste for it.-Robert Lynd,Irish essayist and journalist(1879-1949)

Quote from Robert Lynd

The days on which one has been most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.-Robert Lynd

Quote from Samuel Smiles

The work of many of the greatest men,inspired by duty,has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty.They have struggled against the tide,and reached the shore exhausted.-Samuel Smiles,Scottish author(1812-1904)

Quote on birdwatching

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.One has to sit still like a mystic and wait.-Robert Lynd

An olive oil brand that you finished consuming in January 2013

In January 2013,you finished consuming a 1 Litre glass bottle of Belsapore-Premium Quality-Extra Virgin Olive Oil (First Cold Press)(Packed in Italy).
                                       It was good ,but not excellent.

Quote from Jim Rohn

When you know what you want,and want it bad enough,you will find a way to get it.-Jim Rohn

Quote from Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic.Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.Do not count on them.Leave them alone.-Ayn Rand

Quote from Robert Lynd

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.-Robert Lynd

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Quote from Walter Farrell

If the men of our time had their way,God would be on the carpet all the time offering soothing explanations to angry questions.-Walter Farrell

Quote from Daphne Orebaugh

The face is more honest than the mouth will ever be.-Daphne Orebaugh

Quote from Roland Barthes

Boredom is bliss viewed from the shores of pleasure.-Roland Barthes

Quote from Joseph Bottum

The importance of life comes from the future,while the richness of life comes from the past.-Joseph Bottum

Quote from Joel Best

A bad statistic is harder to kill than a vampire.-Sociologist Joel Best

Quote from Lynn Abbey

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers,established and unknown.They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.-Lynn Abbey

Quote from Tony Danza

Hold back the tide.Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.-Actor Tony Danza

Quote from Sonja Washington

The mistakes we make have a way of washing away with the new tide.-Sonja Washington

Quote from Charles M.Schulz

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.-Charles M.Schulz' cartoon PEANUTS

Movie line about husbands

Husbands should be like kleenex:soft,strong and disposable.-Line from the movie CLUE(1985)

Quote from Bill Cosby

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older,I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.-Bill Cosby

Quote from Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.-Winston Churchill

Quote from Tom Lehrer

Life is like a sewer---what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.-Tom Lehrer

Quote from Margaret Thatcher

I'm not a consensus politician;I am a conviction politician.-Margaret Thatcher

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Quote from Grace Hansen

A wedding is like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.-Grace Hansen

Another quote from Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.-Carl Sandburg

Quote from Longfellow

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)

Quote from Richard Armour

In larger things we are convivial;what causes trouble is the trivial.-Richard Armour

Quote from Carl Sandburg

The shovel is brother to the gun.-Carl Sandburg

Fact about Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien

Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien's father lived to the age of 93 years.His mother died  very suddenly at the  tender age of 62.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Quote from Carl Sandburg

Nearly all the best things that have come in life have been unexpected,unplanned by me.-American poet Carl Sandburg(1878-1967)

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

If life gives you limes,make margaritas.-Jimmy Buffett(b.1946)

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

Breathe in,breathe out,move on.-Jimmy Buffett,singer,songwriter and author.

Quote from Betty Bender

When people go to work,they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.-Betty Bender

Quote from Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy,you should occasionally look at the results.-Sir Winston Churchill

Monday, April 08, 2013

Quote on politicians

All politicians should have three hats--one to throw into the ring,one to talk through,and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.-Carl Sandburg

Quote from Rita Mae Brown

Language exerts hidden power,like the moon on the tides.-Rita Mae Brown(b.1944)

Quote from Charles Newcomb

The ebb and flow of will is like the movement of the tides ---if we cease our vain struggles and lamentations long enough to look away from the personal self---we realize life is going well with us after all.-Charles B.Newcomb

Quote from Winston Churchill

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.-Winston Churchill

Quote from Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not change God but it changes hom who prays.-Soren Kierkegaard

Quote from Christopher Meloni

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.-Christopher Meloni

Quote on poetry

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.-Carl Sandburg

Quote from Robert Collier

Most of us,swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about,need only a bit of praise or encouragement -and we will make the goal.-Robert Collier(1885-1950),American motivational author.

Sunday, April 07, 2013

Quote from Johnny Cash

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.-Johnny Cash

Quote from Carl Sandburg

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.-Carl Sandburg

Great quote from Jimmy Buffett

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.-Singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett(b.1946)

Quote from Pam Brown

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.-Pam Brown

Saturday, April 06, 2013

Superb quote from Carl Jung

Creative minds are rarely tidy.-Carl Gustav Jung

Quote from Bette Midler

After thirty,a body has a mind of its own.-Bette Midler

Quote on parties

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.-Winston Churchill(1874-1965)

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

Quote from Claude McDonald

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.-Claude McDonald

Friday, April 05, 2013

Great quote from Carl Sandburg

Love your neighbour as yourself;but don't take down the fence.-Carl Sandburg

Great quote from Lazarus Long

Being intelligent is not a felony,but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.-Lazarus Long

Quote from Carl Sandburg

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.-Carl Sandburg(1879-1967)

Quote from Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat.It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.-Carl Sandburg(1888-1967),American historian,poet and novelist.

Quote from Michael Gaffney

Putting together a magazine is like a scavenger hunt.You have to be able to fit all the puzzle pieces together and then start over fresh the next week.-Michael Gaffney

Quote from Jimmy Buffett

Searching is half the fun:life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.-Jimmy Buffett(b.1946),American singer and songwriter

Thursday, April 04, 2013

Quote from Fisher Ames

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction.These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.-Fisher Ames

Quote from Joseph Heller

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations,give or take a dentist.-Joseph Heller

Quote from Herve Kempf

Consume less;share better.-Herve Kempf

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Quote from Kahlil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano,how shall you expect flowers to bloom?-Kahlil Gibran,Lebanese-born American phlosophical essayist,novelist and poet(1883-1931)

A Hungarian proverb

A flatterer is a secret enemy.-Hungarian proverb

A French proverb

Don't dance on a volcano.-French proverb

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Quote on the Sahara

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.-American economist Milton Friedman(1912-2006)

Quote from Edward Norton

Life,like poker,has an element of risk.It shouldn't be avoided.It should be faced.-Edward Norton(b.1969)

Quote from Ella Maillart

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.-Ella Maillart

Quote from Robert Frost

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house.Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.-Robert Frost

Quote on the remote control

The remote control changed our lives---The remote control took over the timing of the world.That's why you have road rage.You have people who have no patience ,because you got immediate gratification.You got click,click,click.If it doesn't explode within three seconds,click,click,click.-Sid Caesar

Unusual quote on missionaries

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation,Heaven in its infinite mercy,sends them a nice plump missionary.-Oscar Wilde

Monday, April 01, 2013

Another quote from Sid Caesar

In between goals is a thing called life,that has to be lived and enjoyed.-Sid Caesar

Quote from Sid Caesar

Every language has its own music.-Sid Caesar