With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~ Photo by Ed Yourdon

Q: What's worse than raining cats and dogs? A: Hailing taxicabs! Image courtesy mtlin

Morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Photo by James Jordan

I myself am simply a collage of my ancestor’s DNA, mixed with the hundreds of thousands of words and images and ideas that my brain has abso...

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. ~ Art Linkletter ~

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. ~ Persian proverb ~ Image courtesy...

What until recently seemed to be only the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian faith has today entered the sphere of the soberest scientif...

Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of canc...

There has never been a cat Who couldn't calm me down By walking slowly Past my chair. ~ Rod McKuen from "Thirteen" ~

The friends I found in books not only helped me to understand myself better, but made it possible for me to come to understand and reach out...

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they ...

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~ Ambrose Bierce ~

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . ~ Ernest Hemingway ~

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. ~ Jim Henson ~

People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proc...

The cat is a dilettante in fur. ~ Theophile Gautier ~

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want--oh, you don't quite know what it is you d...

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. ~ Robert Hass ...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing...

Fenway is the essence of baseball. ~ Tom Seaver ~

If I had been less strong, if I had been in competition with a lot of white girls, I would not have stood out the way I did. I was different...

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. ~ Bertrand Russell ~

Photo by Etolane People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pa...

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. ~ John D. Rockefeller ~

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality...

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~ Ralph Nader ~ Photo courtesy Fr Antunes

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? ~ Frida Kahlo ~

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi ~

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being s...

Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock. ~ Louise A. Belcher ~

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. ~ Sir Thomas Malory ~

Poetry is sound . Oh, sure, it's other things, too, but sound needs to be near the top of the list. ~ Paul B. Janeczko ~

Keep a poem in your pocket and a picture in your head and you'll never feel lonely at night when you're in bed. Beatrice Schenk de R...

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you yo...

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. ~ George Washington ~

Riches, then, which benefit also our neighbours, are not to be thrown away. For they are possessions, inasmuch as they are possessed, and go...

A Poet's Cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks to which she might retire, And wh...

There is only one happiness in writing, the hourly enchantment of the writing itself, for then you are living in your dream. ~ Alice Brown ~

And even a great poet's divinest thought Is coloured by the world he knows and sees. ~ Amy Lowell from "The Boston Atheneum" ~

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her...

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. ~ A...

Painting was my initial impetus, I just got sidetracked into illustration by things like mortgages and children. Not a bad way to prostitute...

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~ Tom Brokaw ~

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. ~ Charles ...

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual d...

One use of a journal or notebook is to jumpstart the mind. But another purpose, equally important, is to provide a place to relax, to settl...

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to co...

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~ Stanley Horowitz ~ Image courtesy Winsl...

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. ~ Michael Caine ~ Photo by Mr. Ducke

"Everyone knows From my big ears to my toes, I'm not a Siamese cat. I'm Skippyjonjones , A Chihuahua to my bones. And that'...

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. ~ William S...

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empat...

Though the air is full of singing my head is loud with the labor of words. ~ Wendell Berry from "The Silence"~ Photo by Wilson (Ar...

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out....

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God and the public ...

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of...

Women like to sit down with trouble--as if it were knitting. ~ Ellen Glasgow ~

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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~ Oscar Wilde ...