Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. ~ Bill Peterson, football coach ~

A library is thought in cold storage. ~ Herbert Samuel ~

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard f...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ~ Jane Austen ~

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time. ~ Martha Stewart ~

Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if...

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ~ Carl Sandburg ~

A home without books is a body without soul. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the Unite...

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children l...

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

"It is a VERY inconvenient habit of kittens," said Alice, "that whatever you say to them, they always purr." ~ Lewis Car...

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~

We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. ~ Robert Frost ~

People have passion. It runs through all we do – who we love, what we do for a living, how we worship and how we spend our free time. So, w...

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. ~ H. L. Mencken ~

The 2008 Newbery Medal winner! When a book is named a Newbery winner, it means that probably every public library in the nation, and most sc...

Notice the big snowman "thumbs up!" Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is r...

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~ More funny pictures

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~ Ogden Nash ~

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant. ~ Emily Dickinson ~

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. ~ Pythagoras ~

Board games do not discriminate based on gender, or age for that matter. Board games have greater appeal across generations than video games...

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the g...

indoor cat chasing a squirrel window to window ~ Larry Rungren ~ Many thanks to Larry Rungren for permission to use his haiku.

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ~ John Dryden ~

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison me...

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

...Mole suffered himself to be dragged back along the road by his imperious companion, who by a flow of cheerful talk and anecdote endeavore...

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~ John Burroughs ~

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal. ~ Stirling Moss ~

If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. ~ African proverb ~ Photo of Lila courtesy of Lucinda McQueen

Militancy and greed cannot become the defining images of a new century that began with much hope. We must refocus our energy on promoting th...

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn. ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ~ Lewis Mumford ~

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. ~ Kin Hubbard ~

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~ Charles Dickens ~

It is imperative that we continue the fight for peace on earth for the whole planet, because peace can only be achieved in this day and age ...

Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room. ~ James Mason ~

Democracy has a simple rule. The social conscience. The citizen trumps the consumer. We, Milton Friedman, with his help, we've inverted ...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer . ~ Albert Camus ~

Mother always taught me: "Never eat singing food." ~ Rizzo the Rat ~

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom. ~ Golda Meir ~

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ~ Agnes Repplier...

The Fitful Alternations of the Rain The fitful alternations of the rain, When the chill wind, languid as with pain Of its own heavy moisture...

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The rest will be given. ~ Mother Teresa ~

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security. ~ James Herriot ~ The poor things have no sense of pride. --KK

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ~ Jeff Valdez ~

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. ~ Mitt Romney ~ Does this mean that anyone who doesn't follow a religion ca...

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. ~ Anonymous ~

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don'...

We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled during our ...

If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart. ~ Arabian Proverb ~

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. ~ Sir F...

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow. ~ Langston Hughes ~

Eggs have no business dancing with stones. ~ Italian Proverb ~

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the huma...

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on. ~ D. H. Lawrence ~

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ~ Percy Bysshe Shell...

To sleep, perchance to dream--ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep what dreams may come? ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ~

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ~...