Following in the Tradition of Yogi Berra...

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

~ Bill Peterson, football coach ~

Brrrr!

A library is thought in cold storage.

~ Herbert Samuel ~

I Can Relate!

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

~ John Updike ~

She Doesn't Mince Words...

The person, be it gentleman or lady,
who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

~ Jane Austen ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

~ Martha Stewart ~

Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

~Robert Frost ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Amen!

A home without books is a body without soul.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

Eat Your Broccoli

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

~ George H.W. Bush ~

OMG!

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

~ George W. Bush ~

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

"It is a VERY inconvenient habit of kittens," said Alice, "that whatever you say to them, they always purr."

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Why Does Political Polling Immediately Pop into My Head?

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

Still We Love to Dance

We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

~ Robert Frost ~

I Think There's Something to be Said for Plain and Boring!

People have passion. It runs through all we do – who we love, what we do for a living, how we worship and how we spend our free time. So, why, when our lives are so full of passion, do funerals – events designed to celebrate a life - have to be so plain and boring?

~ from the webpage of Eternal Images designers of "brand name funerary products" ~

Ouch!

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

~ H. L. Mencken ~

What Every Children's Writer Hopes For

The 2008 Newbery Medal winner!

When a book is named a Newbery winner, it means that probably every public library in the nation, and most schools in the nation, will have a copy of this book. Plus, it will be one that will be gifted to children everywhere. It will be discussed, and it will probably never go out of print...

~ Barbara Barstow ~

Snow Day!

Notice the big snowman "thumbs up!"
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

~ John Ruskin ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

~ Eleanor Farjeon ~



More funny pictures

Sitting at Home Suits Me Fine!

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

~ Ogden Nash ~

Truth

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.

~ Emily Dickinson ~

I Love That Smell!

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Okey dokey

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

~ Pythagoras ~

Monopoly Anyone?

Board games do not discriminate based on gender, or age for that matter. Board games have greater appeal across generations than video games.

~ Kevin Howley, Assistant professor of communications, arts and sciences at DePauw University ~

See, It Works!

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

~ John Linder ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

indoor cat
chasing a squirrel
window to window

~ Larry Rungren ~



Many thanks to Larry Rungren for permission to use his haiku.

Today, with Temps in the 40's, You Might be Able to Get Away with It!

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

~ John Dryden ~

Don't Forget to Vote on Tuesday!

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson ~

Hey, It's Not Junk!

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

That's What Friends are For

...Mole suffered himself to be dragged back along the road by his imperious companion, who by a flow of cheerful talk and anecdote endeavored to beguile his spirits back and make the way seem shorter.

~ Kenneth Grahame, from The Wind in the Willows ~

Happy 2008!

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

~ John Burroughs ~

Another Reason for Always Having a Book at Hand

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

~ Stirling Moss ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich.

~ African proverb ~






Photo of Lila courtesy of Lucinda McQueen

A Light Extinguished

Militancy and greed cannot become the defining images of a new century that began with much hope. We must refocus our energy on promoting the values of democracy, accountability, broad-based government, and institutions that can respond to people's very real and very urgent needs.

~ Benazir Bhutto ~

Dawn

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

One Man's Opinion...What's Yours?

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

~ Lewis Mumford ~

How Sad...

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

~ Kin Hubbard ~

Merry Christmas!

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

~ Charles Dickens ~

Think Globally This Holiday Season.

It is imperative that we continue the fight for peace on earth for the whole planet, because peace can only be achieved in this day and age if it is global peace. And justice can only be achieved if it is global justice.

~ Barbara G. Hilton, NH Peace Activist ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room.

~ James Mason ~

Consumer v. Citizen

Democracy has a simple rule. The social conscience. The citizen trumps the consumer. We, Milton Friedman, with his help, we've inverted that. Now, the consumer trumps the citizen...Which means a selfish, privatized, and, ultimately, corrupt society.

~ Benjamin Barber ~

Masks

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

Attitude is Everything

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer.

~ Albert Camus ~

Watch What You Eat This Holiday Season!

Mother always taught me: "Never eat singing food."

~ Rizzo the Rat ~

So Many Slaves in the World!

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.

~ Golda Meir ~

Stand Up, Then Sit Down

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

~ Agnes Repplier ~

On the Eve of a Nor'easter

The Fitful Alternations of the Rain

The fitful alternations of the rain,
When the chill wind, languid as with pain
Of its own heavy moisture, here and there
Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Moneyless Fundraising

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The rest will be given.

~ Mother Teresa ~

Pity the Poor Dog

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.
~ James Herriot ~


The poor things have no sense of pride. --KK

Thin Ice

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Cats vs. Dogs

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

~ Jeff Valdez ~

Say What?

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

~ Mitt Romney ~

Does this mean that anyone who doesn't follow a religion can't, or shouldn't, be free?

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

~ Anonymous ~

I Knew There Was a Reason...

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words.

~ Harlan Miller ~

Silence is Not Always Golden

We will have to call especially loud to reach
Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding
In the jugs of silence filled during our wars.

~ Robert Bly ~

This is the Season for Giving

If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart.

~ Arabian Proverb ~

Flying Money?

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

~ Sir Francis Bacon ~

Rabbit Dreams are Different!

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams go,
Life is a barren field,
Frozen with snow.

~ Langston Hughes ~

Or Anything Else for That Matter!

Eggs have no business dancing with stones.

~ Italian Proverb ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

~ Cleveland Amory ~

Apply This to Your Holiday Shopping Excursions

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.

~ D. H. Lawrence ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

To Sleep

To sleep, perchance to dream--ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep what dreams may come?

~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ~

Telephones

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

~ Doug Larson ~