Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake. ~ George James de Wilde ~

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~ Lois Wyse ~

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures......

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you...

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. ~ Paul Muldoon ~

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the me...

In idle moments, when there were no pressing matters to be dealt with, and when everybody seemed to be sleepy from the heat, she would sit u...

This is the weather the cuckoo likes And so do I. ~ Thomas Hardy ~ Photo by markkilner

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things--creating molding the earth--whether it be the plains of the west--or the iron ore o...

There are no ordinary cats. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle ~ Photo by ResArt

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Actress Ethel Barrymore, 1901

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of an sort of verbosity. ~ Joseph Brodsky ~

Photo by Swamibu In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not...

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ~ Samuel Johnson ~

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"Beaver": I could use my own money, the twenty-five dollars I got in the bank. Wally: I thought you were saving that to go to coll...

Photo by Diane Duane Beware of people who dislike cats. ~ Irish proverb ~

Photo by FotoosVanRobin The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. ~ Julia Child ~

Whispering into my ear, the syllables rustle their plumes and settle beside each other; longer and shorter phrases parade back and forth enc...

After all there is an element in the readjustment of our financial system more important than currency, more important than gold, and that i...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness....

Two things inspire me to awe--the starry heavens above and the moral universe within. ~ Albert Einstein ~ Photo by dsb nola With me it's...

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ~ Calvin Coolidge ~

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it...

Photo by Martin Cathrae If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. ~ Chinese proverb ~

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting r...

Each one of our hundred billion neurons may have anywhere from 1 to 10,000 synaptic connections to other neurons. This means that the theor...

Photo courtesy of Seattle Municipal Archives You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. ~ J. ...

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~ William Blake ~

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss ~

Photo by Olivander There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer ~

The prevailing culture tells us that nothing succeeds like excess, that working 80 hours a week is better than working 70, that being plugge...

Photo by Lawrence OP A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~ Virginia Woolf ~

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~ ...

Photo by food in mouth This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit. ~ Homer Simpson ~

The essence of the film which is about optimism and the power of hope in the lives, and all my life I had a choice of hate and love. I chose...

More animals here! I agree! --KK

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel...

Business does not exist in the world of poetry, and therefore by implication it has become everything that poetry is not—a world without ima...

Humor is the sunshine of the mind. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it mean...

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...

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--in...

To err is human, to purr feline. ~ Robert Byrne ~

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Photo by Leo Reynolds Always be a poet, even in prose. ~ Charles Baudelaire ~ Excellent advice--if only it were that easy! --KK

O Memory! thou midway world ‘Twixt earth and paradise, Where things decayed and loved ones lost In dreamy shadows rise ~ Abraham Lin...

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning...

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle ~

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. ~ Ch...

No heaven will not ever Heaven be; unless my cats are there to welcome me. ~ Scottish proverb ~

Photo by Martin de Witte Sometimes we do dumb things...We use fear to attack civil liberties. ~ George Clooney ~

Tasteful composition, either of prose or poetry, which faithfully contrasted the realities of eternity with the unstable and fickle fortunes...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of b...

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. ~ Susan B. Anthony ~

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~ Bill Cosby ~

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often...

Photo by Natasha Lloyd The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the t...

I went to my computer that night to escape thinking too much, or at least to force myself to think about things that didn't matter. See...

I think more people should be reading it but maybe fewer people should be writing it, ...there's an abundance of unreadable poetry out t...

American cities are like badger holes ringed with trash. ~ John Steinbeck ~

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of g...

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ~ Jesse Owens ~

A weasel comes to say "Happy New Year" to the chickens. ~ Chinese proverb ~

Cats also don't laugh out loud, but when a cat executes a prank successfully, it always seems pretty pleased about it. ~ Lynne Powell ~

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up. ~ Dr. Seuss ~