Quote from Arthur Helps

Having once decided to achieve a certain task,achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste.The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.-Arthur Helps

Quote on boredom

Boredom is the result of lacking focus.-E.L.McDowell

Quote from Alexander Pope

What some call health,if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet,isn't much better than the tedious disease.--Alexander Pope,English poet(1688-1744)

Quote from Anatole France

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.-Anatole France(1844-1924)

Insightful quote from Nancy Mitford

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.-Nancy Mitford
(1904-1973)

A quote from Nancy Mitford

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take,like a disease.-Nancy Mitford

Quote from Nancy Mitford

Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?-Nancy Mitford

Quote from Wilson Mizner

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.-Wilson Mizner(1876-1933

Interesting quote from Oscar Wilde

One should never make one's debut with a scandal.One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.-Oscar Wilde

Quote on goals

Goals are dreams with deadlines.-Diana Scharf Hunt

Quote on Twitter

Twitter is just a multiplayer notepad.-Ben Maddox

Another Polish proverb

A noisy cow gives little milk.-Polish proverb

Polish proverb

A good bargain is a pick-purse.-Polish proverb

Quote from Karl Wallenda

Being on a tightrope is living;everything else is waiting.-Karl Wallenda

Quote from Dr.Haim Ginott

Children are like wet cement.Whatever falls on them makes an impression.-Dr.Haim Ginott

Brazil

Brazil's economy is booming in 2013 and the country has a swelling middle class.A thousand new cars are added to the streets of Sao Paulo every day in 2013.

Great quote on kissing

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.-Rene Yasenek

Quote from Michael Embry

I don't have to look too far to find treasures.I discover them every time I visit a library.-Michael Embry

A couple of Polish proverbs

1.Ink,if not used,will dry up.-Polish proverb
2.Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.-Polish proverb

Another Polish proverb

Watch the faces of those who bow low.-Polish proverb

A Polish proverb

Innocence itself hath need of a mask.-Polish proverb

Quote from Haim Ginott

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.-Haim Ginott

Fact about Gilda Radner

Comedian Gilda Radner's father was 53 years old when she was born.

Quote from Henry Miller

The moment one gives close attention to any thing,even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious,awesome,indescribably magnificient world in itself.-Henry Miller

Quote from Don Carter

One of the advantages  bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.-Don Carter

Another quote from Pat Conroy

If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval,there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value.There is no fixing a damaged childhood.The best you can hope for is to make the sucker float.-Pat Conroy,THE PRINCE OF TIDES

Quote from Pat Conroy

Mountaineers are isolates;islanders are citizens of the world.An islander greets the stranger with a wave;a mountaineer wonders why he came.-Pat Conroy,THE PRINCE OF TIDES,page 111.

148th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Nomade Sédentaire-Kevin Parent
2.La Jasette-Kevin Parent
3.Le Manège(1970)-Dany Aubé
4.L'Ourson De Peluche(1967)-Dany Aubé
5.Une Fleur Sauvage(1967)-Dany Aubé
6.Un Air De Valse-Chantal Pary
7.Liberté-Gilles Marchal
8.Je Le Veux(1967)-Christine Chartrand
9.Seize Tonnes-Jean Bertola
10.Tête D'Acier(1969)-Donald Lautrec

Quote from Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.-Arnold Bennett

147th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Pala Pala Pala-Christine Chartrand
2.Quatre Gouttes De Pluie(1968)-Christine Chartrand
3.Le Goût de Toi(1971)-Jacques Salvail
4.Ne Joue Pas Avec L'Amour(1971)-Jacques Salvail
5.Si j'avais un bateau-Les Champions(This song is a French version of the song 'TRAVELING MAN' by Ricky Nelson).
6.Anna(1976)-Jacques Salvail
6.Aujord'Hui Tout Est Beau(1969)-Jacques Boulanger
7.Comme Je Voudrais T'Aimer(1972)-Jacques Salvail
8.Non,ma Chanson ne Ment Pas(1971)-Jacques Salvail(This song is a French version of the 1971 hit song 'HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN' by The FORTUNES)
9.L'Enfer(1968)-Christine Charbonneau
10.Le Plymouth(1974)-Jacques Salvail

Another Iranian proverb

Flies will easily fly into the honey-their problem is how to get out.-Iranian proverb

A Persian proverb

Even the hand of compassion is stung when it strokes a scorpion.-Persian proverb

Excellent proverb from Thailand

At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.-Proverb from Thailand

Interesting quote from Elbert Hubbard

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.-Elbert Hubbard

Underrated instrumental song

I just heard 'JOEY'S SONG',a great instrumental song from Bill Haley in the fifties.This song is an underrated gem and deserves more airplay on oldies radio stations.There is also 'JOEY'S SONG' by Joe Reisman and His Orchestra,an equally great version.

Quote from Jared Sandberg

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.-Jared Sandberg

Quote from Leslie Caron

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past.I keep on.-Leslie Caron

Quote from Samuel Johnson

If one was to think constantly of death,the business of life would stand still.-Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)

Quote from Jim Bishop

Books,I found,had the power to make time stand still,retreat or fly into the future.-Jim Bishop(1907-1987)

Another quote from Miles Kington

I have recently taken up two new sports: roller skating and ankle spraining,in that order.I am getting quite good at both.-Miles Kington(1941-2008) 

Quote from Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.-Bernard M.Baruch

Quote from Miles Kington

Astronomers,like burglars and musicians,operate best at night.-Miles Kington(1941-),English humorist.

T-shirt message you saw

What's better than great?Me.--T-shirt message you saw on a man's T-shirt on Ste.Catherine Street in Montreal.

Quote from Robert Collier

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world.You cannot stand still.You must go forward.-Robert Collier(1885-1950)

Quote from Robert Frost

Time and tide wait for no man,but always stand still for a woman of thirty.-Robert Frost(1874-1963)

Another quote from Miles Kington

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit,Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.-Miles Kington(1941-2008),British journalist and musician

Quote from Victor Kiam

In business,the competition will bite you if you keep running,if you stand still,they will swallow you.-Victor Kiam,American(1926-2001)

Great quote from Miles Kington

Man is the only creature that seems to have the time and energy to pump all his sewage out to sea,and then go swimming in it.-Miles Kington(1941-2008),British journalist and musician.

Quote from James Alan McPherson

I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something.At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.-James Alan McPherson,ELBOW ROOM

Quote from Matthew Arnold

This strange disease of modern life,with its sick hurry,its divided aims.-Matthew Arnold

Quote from Pat Conroy

I'd like to be a hippopotamus.Just sitting down there on the bottom of rivers,kicking ass on occasion.-Pat Conroy,THE PRINCE OF TIDES,page 466.

Quote from Sting

Without the voice of reason,every faith is its own curse.-Sting

Quote from Al Hirschfeld

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.-Al Hirschfeld

Quote from Truman Capote

Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing,and it is dull at all ages.When we change our brand of cigarette,move to a new neighborhood,subscribe to a different newspaper,fall in and out of love,we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of the day-to-day living.-Truman Capote,SUMMER CROSSING.

Quote from Gerald Brenan

When the grasshopper gathers its strength to hop,it does not know where it will land.So it often is with poets.-Gerald Brenan,British writer(1894-1987)

Another Finnish proverb

A sauna-the poor man's pharmacy.-Finnish proverb

Finnish proverb

Whose bread you eat ,his songs you'll sing.-Finnish proverb

Quote from Stephen King

Books and movies are like apples and oranges.They both are fruit,but taste completely different.-Stephen King

Quote from Steven Wright

I'm writing a book.I've got the page numbers done.-Steven Wright