Quote from Thomas Merton

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.-Thomas Merton

Quote from Ricky Gervais

Just because you're offended,doesn't mean you're right.-Ricky Gervais

Quote on spirituality

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with:'Do this or you'll burn in hell.''-Ricky Gervais

Quote from Max Muller

A flower cannot bloom without sunshine,and man cannot live without love.-Max Muller

Quote from Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven't got it,you can't show it.If you have got it,you can't hide it.-Zora Neale Hurston

Quote from Leonard Cohen

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
  The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor.-Leonard Cohen

Proverb

Short-lived pleasure is the parent of pain.-Proverb

Quote from Octavio Paz

If human beings forget poetry,they will forget themselves.-Octavio Paz

Quote from Brandon Mull

False humility is more insulting than open pride!-Brandon Mull,RISE OF THE EVENING STAR.

Quote from Abraham Lincoln

Force is all-conquering ,but its victories are short-lived.-Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865)

Quote from Mae West

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.-Mae West(1892-1980)

A Chinese proverb

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet regardless of time,place or circumstance.The thread may stretch or tangle,but it will never break.-Chinese proverb

Quote from Jerry Gillies

Confront your fears,list them,get to know them,and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.-Jerry Gillies

Quote from Michael Bassey Johnson

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.-Michael Bassey Johnson

Good quote from Denzel Washington

If you pray for rain,you gotta deal with the mud too.-Denzel Washington,actor.

Quote from Harriet Tubman

You cannot free a slave,they have to free themselves first.-Harriet Tubman,abolitionist.

Phoenix

The Sky Train takes passengers to Sky Harbour Airport,the airport of Phoenix,Arizona.

Insightful quote on slander

The effects of slander are always long-lived .Once lies about you have been circulated,it is extremely different to clear your name.It's a lot like trying to recover dandelion seeds after they have been thrown to the wind.-John Macarthur

Quote on admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object,unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries,and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.-Joseph Addison(1672-1719),English essayist,poet,dramatist and statesman.

Quote from Jerry Gillies

Make sure you visualize what you really want,not what someone else wants for you.-Jerry Gillies

Quote from Marilyn Suttle

When you depersonalize abrasive behaviour and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.-Marilyn Suttle

Quote from Donald Laird

To handle yourself,use your head;to handle others,use your heart.-Donald Laird

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes

Several years before birth,advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Spillways

Spillways-Channels that take water around a dam when the reservoir is full.

Good quote from Ricky Gervais

Take a picture,not a trophy.This is how real men shoot animals.-Ricky Gervais

Interesting Arabian proverb

A promise is a cloud;fulfillment is rain.-Arabian proverb

Quote from Charles Barkley

If if were gifts,every day would be Christmas.-Charles Barkley

Mean quote from Irving Brecher

I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.-Irving Brecher

Great quote on health care

Of all the forms of inequality,injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote on pleasures

Most pleasures are best as a seasoing,not the main course.--Brandon Mull,A WORLD WITHOUT HEROES.

Interesting quote from Brandon Mull

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide?Spend your life trying to fit in.-Brandon Mull

Good quote from Joshua Ferris

To conform is to lose your soul.-Joshua Ferris,THEN WE CAME TO THE END.

Quote on fantasy

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.-Brandon Mull

Quote from Simone Weil

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.-Simone Weil

Quote from Brandon Mull

Choices determine character.-Brandon Mull,SECRETS OF THE DRAGON SANCTUARY.

Quote from Joshua Ferris

Without work,so much of one's identity just evaporates.-Joshua Ferris

Quote on happiness

Happiness is like a cloud,if you stare at it long enough,it evaporates.-Sarah McLachlan

Interesting quote on luck

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.-Brandon Mull

Quote from Millicent Fenwick

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice.Poverty,cold,even hunger,are more bearable than injustice.-Millicent Fenwick

Quote on money

Money can't buy happiness,but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.-Clare Boothe Luce(1903-1987)

Quote from Clare Boothe Luce

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.-Clare Boothe Luce(1903-1987)

Quote from Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.-Pat Conroy

Quote from Millicent Fenwick

Never feel self-pity,the most destructive emotion there is.How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.-Millicent Fenwick

Proverb

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.-Proverb

Ships

Wheelhouse-Word for a ship's cockpit,an enclosed area on the bridge from which the captain controls the vessel.

Quote on moose

Moose are the squirrels of Alaska.-Tim Moon

Quote on advertising

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.-Clare Boothe Luce(1903-1987).

Quote from Clara Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a virgin-a frozen asset.-Clare Boothe Luce(1903-1987).

Interesting quote on lying

Lying expands the creative faculties,expands the ego,and lessens the frictions of social contacts.-Clare Boothe Luce(1903-1987)

Interesting quote from Sue Grafton

Whatever the surface appearances,most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery.With intimacy,the wreckage starts to show,damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track.-Sue Grafton ,in her novel 'D' IS FOR DEADBEAT,page 31.

Quote on the oppressed

The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.-Clare Boothe Luce

Quote from David Carr

Working on your grand plan is like shoveling snow  that hasn't fallen yet.Just do the next right thing.-David Carr

Quote on thoughts

Thoughts have no sex.-Clare Boothe Luce

Quote from Clare Booth Luce

There are no hopeless situations;there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.-Clare Booth Luce(1903-1987)

Quote from Dennis Miller

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.-Dennis Miller

Quote from Dean Cavanagh

THose who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.-Dean Cavanagh

Car hop

A car hop-A waitress in a drive-in restaurant.

Quote on Hollywood

Here in Hollywood you can get a marriage license painted on an Etch-A-Sketch.-Dennis Miller

Quote on the lion

Sure,the lion is the king of the jungle but airdrop him into Antarctica,and he's just a penguin's bitch.-Dennis Miller

Mount Everest

Q.Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest alone and one of the first to do so without supplemental oxygen?
Answer.Reinhold Messner

Pikes Peak

Zebulon Pike was the first person to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado.

Cookies

Q.Which kind of chocolate chip cookies are named for Ruth Wakefield's Massachusetts Inn?
Answer.Toll House cookies

Quote from Henry Rollins

Yes,I guess you could say I am a loner,but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.-Henry Rollins

Quote from Joseph Annaruma

It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf.-Joseph Annaruma

Quote from Paul Newman

You only grow when you are alone.-Paul Newman

Quote from Dennis Miller

Born again?No,I'm not.Excuse me for getting it right the first time.-Dennis Miller

A German proverb

An uneducated man is like an unpolished mirror.-German proverb

Quote from David Foster Wallace

The truth will set you free.But not until it is finished with you.-David Foster Wallace

Quote from Dennis Miller

One man's Voltaire is another man's screech.-Dennis Miller

Quote from Simone Weil

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.-Simone Weil

Quote from Ivan Doig

My stints of employment had been eaten away by the acid of boredom,the drip-by-drip sameness of a job causing my mind to yawn and sneak off elsewhere.-Ivan Doig,WORK SONG.

Dallas

Love Field-The name of the airport of Dallas.

Great website on lakes

www.lakelubbers.com

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grin your smile;giggle your laugh;unfurl your joy;dash the last trace of your self-consciousness and cavort your most uninhibited play.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Danny McGoorty

I have never liked working.To me a job is an invasion of privacy.-Danny McGoorty

Quote from Ernest Hemmingway

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.-Ernest Hemmingway,in "A FAREWELL TO ARMS.''

Sierra Nevada

Q.Which is the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada?
Answer.Mount Whitney.

Miniature golf

Putt putt-Another name for miniature golf

Quote from Marshall Lumsden

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.-Marshall Lumsden

Olive oil brand that you finished consuming in April 2015

In April 2015,you finished consuming a l litre glass bottle of CARATERRA Extra-Virgin olive oïl(First cold-pressed)(Rich and Fruity Taste)(Packed in Italy).
                                          It was quite good.

Quote from Gelett Burgess

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.-Gelett Burgess

River

Q.Which river winds its way through Reno,Nevada?
Answer.Truckee

Love seat

Did you know that a love seat is also called a courting chair?

Quote on intellectual property

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.-Bill Gates

Quote from Gelett Burgess

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one,check your pulse.You may be dead.-Gelett Burgess

Quote on income tax

An income tax form is like a laundry list-either way you lose your shirt.-Fred A.Allen

Quote from Jessi Lane Adams

Skipping is nature's antidepressant.-Jessi Lane Adams

Quote from Judy Garland

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.-Judy Garland

Quote from Emmeline Pankhurst

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.-Emmeline Pankhurst

Quote from Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.-Coco Chanel

Lake in Oregon

Q.Which is the largest lake in the American state of Oregon?
Answer.Upper Klamath Lake

Undermaid

Undermaid-A female servant.

Great quote on friends

Understand that friends come and go,but with a precious few you should hold on.The older you get,the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.-Mary Schmich,columnist for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

Quote from Rusty Berkus

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,igniting the circuits of our highest potential.-Rusty Berkus

Lake in New York state

Q.Which is the biggest lake entirely within New York state?
Answer.Lake Oneida

Quote on retirement

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection,a being thrown on to the scrap heap.-Simone De Beauvoir

Quote from Lynn Barber

The best interviews-like the best biographies-should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.-Lynn Barber,INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY.

Quote on violence

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.-Alan Brien

Nobel Prize Winners

Q.Who was the first Nobel Prize winner to reach the age of 100?
Answer.Rita Levi-Montalcini,Italian scientist.

Quote from William Davenant

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.-William Davenant

Mayor of Montreal.

Q.Who was the first mayor of Montréal?
Answer.Jacques Viger

Quote from Lord Macaulay

The object of oratory alone is not truth,but persuasion.-Lord Macaulay

Quote from Brendan Francis

At the innermost core of loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.-Brendan Francis

Quote on fashion

Fashion is in a terrible state.An overdose of too much flesh.-Geoffrey Beene

Countries that are tax havens

In 2014,Bermuda,The Cayman Islands,Singapore and Switzerland are four countries that are famously used as tax havens.

Silverback

Silverback-The dominant male gorilla of his group.

Question on Stonewall Jackson

Q.Of whom did Stonewall Jackson say ``He is the only man I would follow blindfold''?
Answer.Robert E.Lee

Question on river

Q.Which river naturally forms the border between the states of Arizona and California?
Answer.The Colorado river.

Coho Salmon

Coho salmon is also known as silver salmon.