Sunday's Kat Kwote

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

~ Christopher Smart ~

When I Fall It's Just Plain Klutziness

When a rich man falls they say it was an accident; when a poor man falls they say that he was drunk.

~ Turkish proverb ~

A Twist of Lemon...

Dogbert: "Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

Dilbert: "But I'm allergic to citrus."

Dogbert: "Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, swell up and die."

~ Scott Adams ~

Lovely!

Our days will be grapes on a trellis
perfectly oval and furred.

~ Maxine Kumin from "Running Away Together" ~

A Classic Example of Understatement

I think we have guys who can do the job.

~ Danny Ainge ~

The Universe

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

~ Eden Phillpotts ~

Spoken Like a True New Englander

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

~ Robertson Davies ~

Why Not Just Do It?

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

~ Ayn Rand ~

Poetry Friday

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

~ James Garfield ~

A Case for Insanity

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Wild Things

The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind
and another
his mother called him "WILD THING!"
and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!"
so he was sent to bed without eating anything.

~ Maurice Sendak ~

Record-Breaking Temperatures Today!

Take a sheet and get it wet and lay it across you, then go lay by an open window. When the breeze blows it will feel just like air conditioning.

~ Peggy Andrews ~

What Would He Think of the World Today?

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

~ Daniel Webster ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
~ James Herriot ~

photo by Cee-Bee

Go Celtics!

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

~ Red Auerbach ~

Laughter

You will never be punished for making people die of laughter.

~ Chinese proverb ~

So Why Do It?

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

~ Willa Cather ~

I Love This!

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

~ William Faulkner ~

Names

It is quite as easy to give our children musical and pleasing names as those that are harsh and difficult; and it will be found by the owners, when they have grown to knowledge, that there is much in a name.

~ John Locke ~

Knitting

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either.

~ Elizabeth Zimmerman ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

~ Louis Camuti ~

Today's Forecast: Thunderstorms Likely

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~

The Way It Should Be!

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

~ Marie Curie ~

You Go, Girl!

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

~Margaret Trudeau ~

Who Knew He Was So Deep?

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

~ Frank Sinatra ~

Celebrating Sydney Pollack

On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.
~ Sydney Pollack ~

Memorial Day

With no jealousies to indulge and no envy to gratify, we seek to draw a lesson from the past that shall be to our future a beacon and a guide. To the sleeping martyrs, whose graves billow every battlefield, it matters little what we may now say or do. Our tender offerings of affection will be lost upon their mounds, and the sweet aroma of our scented flowers be uselessly exhaled to air, save as we revive our faith in the doctrines which they defended, and our zeal in the cause for which they died.

~ John P. Jackson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

~ William Lyon Phelps ~






Photo by -sel

Viva la difference!

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that difference in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

~ Gene Roddenberry ~

There's No Time Like Today to Begin

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

~ Aristotle ~

She Was Good

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

~ Katharine Hepburn ~

Logical...

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer ~

Is It the Vegetables That Made Him So Smart?

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

~ Albert Einstein ~

The Key to Entertaining

If you would have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by sausyn
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch ~

Smothered in Kisses

You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions.

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

And So It Is...

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

~ Robert Frost ~

Speaking of Green Things

There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.

~ Roger the Shrubber (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) ~

Bicycles

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

~ H. G. Wells ~

Here's Hoping We're Never Without Passion!

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

~ Honore de Balzac ~

Can a Book Be a Bandit?

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

~ D.H. Lawrence ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

Bumpah Stickah

Funny How That Works!

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

~ Chinese Proverb ~

Ya Gotta Love a Junk Drawer

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

~ James M. Barrie ~

Crowns

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

~ William Shakespeare ~

I Love a Surprise, Don't You?

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

~ Boris Pasternak ~

Wedding Season is Here!

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers.
I sing of maypoles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.

~ Robert Herrick ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.

~ Rose F. Kennedy ~

War

Two quotes today, the first from Senator McCain:

My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will - that will then prevent us - that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.

The second from Oscar Wilde:

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

And one KK comment: Sending your children to die for oil--you can't get more vulgar than that.

Thunder

When it thunders the thief becomes honest.

~ Italian proverb ~

Aha! Now I Understand What Conceptual Art Is!

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain




I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.

~ Jeff Koons ~

Speaking of Squid

Raise your hand if you've ever told your kids, "It's an onion ring. Give it a try."

~ Comment left by "Cat R" on Dave Barry's blog today ~

Always a Silver Lining...

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

~ Jack Handey ~

Ah, April Flowers!

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

~ Sir Walter Scott ~

I Saw the First Violet of Spring,Today!

In kindly showers and sunshine bud
The branches of the dull gray wood;
Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks
The blue eye of the violet looks.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~

Wishes

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher~

Guard Your Good Name

Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

~ William Shakespeare ~

Indignity, Yes, But It Seems to be Effective

Picture your candidate's face here.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal-- that you can gather votes like box tops--is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson ~

Why is That?

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

~ Ansel Adams ~

Happy Earth Day!

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson ~

On Patriotism

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

~ Mark Twain ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

~ Louis Camuti ~

It's All About Story

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

~ Anthony de Mello ~

Poetry

Poetry is intimate and on an individual, human scale by nature of its medium, which is any reader's voice. Yet the art is made of the communal and public materials of language, the arrangements of words people exchange all day like coins.

~ Robert Pinsky ~

Einstein on Fashion

Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Funny How That Works

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

~ Bob Packwood ~

Tax Day!

If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!

~ John Andrew Holmes ~

Titanic

Video should add probably another $800 million of gross sales. 'Titanic' could provide the gross domestic product, almost, of a small country, given how profitable it's been.

~ Ed Hatch ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

If you would know a man,
observe how he treats a cat.
~ Robert Heinlein ~

Art

Art disturbs the universe.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson ~

Poetry Friday

But, for good reason, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.

~ Mary Oliver from A Poetry Handbook ~

A Handful of Birdsong--What a Lovely Image!

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,
barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window
in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.
She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,
offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

~ Billy Collins from The Art of Drowning ~

Games

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Imagine That!

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

~ Dave Barry ~

We're Guilty, I Fear

A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.

~ George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

~ Sir Philip Sidney ~

Another Rainy Day

Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

We've Seen Quite a Bit of "Sincere Ignorance" Lately!

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Drinking Water

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

~ W. C. Fields ~

Thank Goodness!

One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can’t be as bad as they are painted.

~ M. Walthall Jackson ~

You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

~ from South Pacific by Rogers and Hammerstein ~