My "must-have" was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atm...

"I want to go to the library." ~ Mr. Johnson, a.k.a. Fat Blue, voice by Jerry Nelson ~

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. ~ Mark Twain ~ Drawing by Everett S...

Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine--these visuals will help bring your idea to life. ~ Jo...

Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that sme...

I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats . ~ Counting Crows "Mr. Jones" ~

Every generation rewrites the book’s epitaph; all that changes is the whodunit. ~ Leah Price ~ Photo by Cat Sidh .

The grass resolves to grow again, receiving the rain to that end, but my disordered soul thirsts after something it cannot name. ~ Jane Keny...

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. ~ Abbie Hoffman ~

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ~ Jane Austen ~

When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living--to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and th...

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. ~ Edgar Degas ~ Degas' "Dans un Café" courtesy Musée d'Orsay .

And Perdita makes me smile every day. She runs to greet me when I come home, and she flops at my feet in the morning to be petted. She loves...

~ Unknown artist, photo by Jana Kobold, posted on StreetArt in Germany , 8/11/12 ~

All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do t...

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. ~ Mike Tyson...

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. ~ Thomas More ~ Image courtesy Open Clip...

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person...

                               a spitting image                                of her mother...                                kitten ~ Issa...

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~ Illustration by Randolph ...

Poem, do not raise your voice. Be a whisper that says "There!" ~ Wendell Berry ~ Image courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. ~ Franklin Pierce ~ Currier & Ives lithograph...

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. ~ Leigh Hunt ~

Human beings will be happier--not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find w...

Uncle Martin: Tim, did you see this article? Your government is about to spend two billion dollars on a space program that can't possibl...

In 1963 the French government had numerous cats undergoing intensive training for possible space flight, with fairly arduous tasks involving...

Is there a limit to how dishonest you can be, in politics? Or is this what is now known as running the nation like a business , where little...

Concrete poetry Verse that emphasizes nonlinguistic elements in its meaning, such as a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic. ~ ...

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~ Photo by Injas World .

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. ~ George Harrison ~ Tim Green aka atoach .

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~ Ern...

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps--space stamps and Olympics stamps. ~ Sally Ride ~ See other Olympics postage sta...

Diddlty, diddlty, dumpty, The cat ran up the plum tree, Give her a plum, and down she’ll come, Diddlty, diddlty, dumpty. ~ Mother Goose ~

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ~ Jerry Seinfeld ~

Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as the...

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun. ~ Charles de ...

~ Else Holmelund Minarik from Little Bear ~

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. ~ Paul Klee ~ ...

"Don't worry about me. I will die soon enough and go to be with your father and with your poor brothers." "You're no...

We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth in the hands of a comparative few, but we cannot have both. ~ Louis Brandeis ~ Photo by ...

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. ...

The awareness that what we are feeling is not necessarily what another is feeling, coupled with our drive to create social bonds with other...

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It...

The brains of Internet addicts, it turns out, look like the brains of drug and alcohol addicts. ~ Tony Dokoupil ~ Photo by Pierre-Olivier .

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to ...

THE CAT IN THE WOOD The cat in the wood cried farewell cried farewell Farther and farther away and the leaves Covered her over with sound of...

People who wish to govern themselves must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. ~ James Madison ~ Photo by Carol M. Highsmith court...

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ~ Charles Simic ~ Illustration by R. Caldecott from ...

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Photo courtesy Libra...

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people. ~ Leo Tolstoy ~ P...

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life. ~ Isadora Duncan ~ Photo by Arnold Genthe courtesy Library of Congre...

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry,...

Stately, kindly, lordly friend,         Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, love's lu...

~ From The Suffrage Cook Book ~ Note: click on the image for a larger view.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. ~ W. S. Merwin ~ So true! --...

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will g...

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. ~ Daniel We...

Natasha is a Balkan spy. ~ June Foray ~

Just imagine, every single citizen, everybody of every age in this country can get essentially a free education by going to the public libra...

Having gone into the inn they all three sat down to table, but none of them had any appetite. The Cat, who was suffering from indigestion an...