Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ~ Robert Heinlein ~

Life isn't about finding yourself--life is about creating yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. ~ Cynthia Nelms ~

Wishing you a life full of sweets! --KK There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets...

The first duty of love is to listen. ~ Paul Tillich ~

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough ...

How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on. ~ Anonymous ~

Sufferin' succotash! ~ Sylvester ~ Succotash is a stew of corn, lima beans, and tomatoes.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain sim...

The commonplace, the tawdry, the sordid all have their poetic uses if the imagination can lighten them. ~ William Carlos Williams ~

A Chinese bookseller, 1908 To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to mee...

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a f...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

The longest title of a book is 1,433 characters (290 words) and was written by Davide Ciliberti (Italy) in July 2007. The book describes the...

The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat. ~ Jules Renard ~

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. ~ Robert Burns ~

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~ Percy Shelley ~

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand--a business as safe and commendable as making soap ...

photo © Antonello Michele Mastinu for openphoto.net It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greates...

When the days of rejoicing are over, When the flags are stowed safely away, They will dream of another wild "War to End Wars" And ...

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. ~ D.H. Lawrence ~

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~ Winston Churchill ~

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life. ~ John ...

Photo BBC News Altogether shout it now. There's no one Who can doubt it now. So let's tell the world about it now Happy days are her...

It's the morning after the election of our new president, Barack Obama, and I think this is an appropriate quote: We grow great by dream...

What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I ...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the ne...

Smudge and Skippy--friends at last! True Friendship is a plant of slow growth. ~ George Washington ~

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! ~ Traditional Scottish pra...

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its lite...

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. ~ Horace Mann ~

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. ~ Rober...

Photo by fille_de_photo I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of ...

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ~ Emily Dickinson ~

Do dolls invite abuse, with their dent-able heads, those tight little painted-on or stitched-in grins? Hurt me, big botched being, they whin...

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. ~ ...

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. ~ Bertolt Brecht ~

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling...

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sou...

There've been times that I've thought I couldn't last for long, But, now I think I'm able to carry on. It's been a long ...

My mother used to have little words of wisdom for each and every situation. I just assumed they were all folk sayings or momisms. I heard ...

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. ~ Marshall McLuhan ~

More often than not, I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you...

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher C...

Photo by Tara Severns Come I will teach you to dance as naturally as falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long. ~ Marge Piercy fro...

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon ...

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. ~...

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ~ Ray Bradbury ~

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham L...

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succ...

The Smithsonian long ago. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. ~ Libby Gelm...

In memory of Bitz. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken mem...

In the time of your life, live--so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to th...

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to ...

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where e...

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant--the only harmless great thing. ~ John Donne ~

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constant...

Photo by DawnsRecipes Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. ~ Aesop ~

Just as the would-be debutante will fret and fuss over every detail till all is perfect, so will the fastidious feline patiently toil until ...

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs. ~ Kim Beazley ~

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. ~ Ian Fleming ~

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. ~ Amy Lowell ~

She has a touch of gold. New Hampshire gold— You may have heard of it. I had a farm Offered me not long since up Berlin way With a mine on i...

Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake. ~ Anonymous ~

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance--a sharp, vindictive glance. ~ James Thurber ~

There are two sides to every issue, and a politician usually takes both. ~ Anonymous ~

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~ Thomas Macaulay ~

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. ~ Paul Strand ~

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. ~ Mary Pickford ~

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star. ~ Confucius ~

Women are just like cats--they always land on their feet. ~ Iranian proverb ~

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the f...

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~ Robert Graves ~

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ~ Jean Rhys ~