Sunday's Kat Kwote

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

~ Martin Buxbaum ~

From This Week's News

We've come a long way, but we have a long way to go, and we don't get there if we don't sit down and work through issues.

~ Mike Huckabee ~

Or One Made of Shaving Cream...

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
~ Lynn Redgrave ~

Slaves Throw Off Your Chains

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
~ Ivan Illich ~

Record-Breaking Temperatures Expected Today

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

~ Jane Austen ~

After a Day Spent at the Fair

Recreation is not the highest kind act of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.

~ Samuel Irenaeu Prime ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

~ Leonardo daVinci ~

Take a Walk Today...

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves.
~ John Muir ~

Tattoos

Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.

~ Billy Elmer ~

Keep Laughing!

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

~ Mahatma Ghandi ~

Consequences

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

The Right Word

I love Mark Twain! Here's one of my favorite quotes from him:

The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Treasure

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

~ Walt Disney ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

It's All Dave Barry's Fault!

Today is the library's 10th-year-in-the-new-building celebration. Cookies are baked and the tent is up...and it's raining.

I'm sure we'll still have a great time, but if anyone complains, we can blame Dave Barry for the weather!

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

~ Dave Barry ~

So When Does She Find the Time to Write?

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
~ Sara Paretsky ~

Experience

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
~ Henry James ~

Details

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~ William Morris, designer and poet ~

Take Note

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
~ Luciano Pavarotti ~

Graffiti?

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
~ Bill Cosby ~

And the dictionary defines graffiti as "unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface." That sounds accurate for gray hair--who in their right mind would authorize it?

The World's Bravest First Grader

The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my teacher, who couldn't have been more different from them. She was one of the most loving people I had ever known. The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tried to teach us all. Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

~ Ruby Bridges ~

Happy Labor Day!

There is no good moral or economic reason why all workers cannot or should not share in the success and prosperity they helped create. We need to restore the promise of the American Dream. And that means choosing what kind of country we want to be.

~ Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

All cats like being the focus of attention.
~ Peter Gray ~

Everyone's an Author

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page.

~ Mark Houlahan ~

A Haiku for Fair Season

commingled scents
livestock and fried dough
--county fair

The Bestest Friend

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Get Up, Get Up, Get Up!

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford ~

Sage Advice from the Bard

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest.

~ William Shakespeare ~

I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself...

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
~ George Will ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
~ Jim Davis, creator of Garfield ~

I Hope You Can Get to the Sea

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

~ Isak Dinesen ~


The painting is "Girl Carrying a Basket" by Winslow Homer.

The Customer is Always Right

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

~ Orville Redenbacher ~

I Don't Think He Was Talking about Bedbugs...

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me.

~ Richard M. Nixon ~

Documentary Film Making

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

~ Alfred Hitchcock ~

He Probably Meant Pale Pink, But I Like Fuchsia Better!

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
~ William Carlos William ~

The Only Thing That Counts

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Sunday's Cat Quote

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.

~ Beverly Nichols ~

Hurricane Dean's Comin'

Table from http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2905.htm

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
~ Sophocles ~

Poison

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.

~ Lord Chesterfield ~

Ain't It the Truth!

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
~ Elvis ~

Enjoy This Sunny Day!

While the sun is up let men work that the earth may live.
~ Hawaiian proverb ~

Alternative Energy

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
~ Billie Holiday ~

Take Flight!

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
~ Robert Lynd ~

Sundays are for Cats

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

~ Mark Twain ~

Ah, Summer!

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~ John Lubbock ~

When Watching Old Movies Remember...

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ~ Faith Whittlesey ~

Friend as Vase

Iga Flower Vase (1573-1615)

Here's a Japanese proverb for today:

As water lends itself to the shape of the vessel which contains it, so a man is influenced by his good or bad friends.

On This Rainy Summer Day...

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ~ Langston Hughes ~


Don't forget to laugh today!

The Beginning...

I posted something on the tail end of my library blog today:

He who wants milk should not sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for a cow to back up to him. ~Anonymous~

It was suggested that I add a quote or saying to my blog each day, but, I've decided that a separate blog is a better way to do it. If you're a regular reader of Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet, you will notice a link on the right-hand side of the page. Click on the fairy!

Now, to make it official...the first kwote:

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

There, that's done!

How about one more?



When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. ~ J.M. Barrie from Peter Pan ~