Quirky Quote (and a personal note)

"I do think New Year's resolution can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of the New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second."

--Helen Fielding

*note: While I don't have to deal with the nicotine and hangover, I always start resolutions on the 2nd. The first is my anniversary, and there's no way I'm not celebrating! Today was our 30th anniversary!

Food for Thought

" The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective."

--G.K. Chesterton

Food for Thought

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

--Agatha Christie

Quirky Quote of the Week

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

--Dorothy Parker

Food for Thought

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quirky Quote of the Week

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

--George Bernard Shaw

Food for Thought

” When home ties are loosened, when men and woman cease to regard a worthy family life, with all its duties and all its responsibilities lived up, as the best life worth living, then evil days for the nation are at hand.”

--Theodore Roosevelt

Quirky Quote of the Week

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

--Erma Bombeck

Food for Thought

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".

--Erma Bombeck

Quirky Quote of the Week

"If you're afraid of butter, use cream"

--Julia Child

(You gotta' love Julia Child! LOL)

Quirky Quote of the Week

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." 

--Bernard Bailey

Quirky Quote

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
--Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)

Food for Thought

"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. " 
 --Davy Crockett (1786-1836)

Quirky Quote

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.
Work is x; y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein

Food for Thought

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein

Quirky Quote

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
—Ashley Brilliant

Food for Thought

The main object in every school should be not to provide the children with means of earning a livelihood but to show them how to live a happy and worthy life inspired by ideas which exalt and dignify both labor and pleasure.
--Norton

Food for Thought--Memorial Day Edition

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)


Thank you to all the former and current members of our Armed Forces for the sacrifices you have made and continue to make for the freedom of us all.

Quirky Quote

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." 
--P.G. Wodehouse

Quirky Quote

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
--Thomas Carlyle