Random Quotes

[Capt. Morgan]

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

~Ben Franklin

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

~ Mark Twain

[Demetrius]

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

  -George Sand

[Welsh Wench]

And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me

~~Edgar Allen Poe, Annabelle Lee

[BubbleWright]

Dorothy Parker, on being challenged to rhyme horticulture, came up with:

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink,
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

[Richard de Graeme]

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

~ Mark Twain

"Amen, Brother!"

Green Monk (and many others) 2009

[Rani Zemirah]

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly."

~Gypsy Rose Lee~

[Grov]

"I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality."
       
                   -Dalai Lama

[Rani Zemirah]

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

~Samuel Butler~

[Welsh Wench]

'But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.
She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.'

~~William Collins

[Peddlin]

"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam."
(English translation: I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)

[Rani Zemirah]

"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam."
(English translation: I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)

OMG!!! That is the funniest thing I've read in days!!!  ROFLMFAO!!!

[Anna Iram]

'But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.
She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.'

~~William Collins

...and this is a beautiful image. Reminds me of a delicate winter dawn. I wonder if it's from a novel.

[Anna Iram]

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

[Richard de Graeme]

I am a bird in God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty road.

Richard Thompson