Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
Barbara Kingsolver
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Relocation plan?
Where you come from is gone, where you're going to weren't never there, and where you are ain't no good unless you can get away from it.
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
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Travel
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Gift of gab/g?
The problem with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Labels:
Communication
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Give it time
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd be sick of all that rubbish in a year.
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
Labels:
Relationships
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Rule of Engagement?
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire
Voltaire
Labels:
Family
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
The key to inter-species relationships?
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
Barbara Holland
Labels:
Pets
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Offensive strategy?
Football combines the two worst features of American life; violence and committee meetings.
George Will
George Will
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sic transit?
What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum.
Alfred D. Godley
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum.
Alfred D. Godley
Labels:
Transportation
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
The trouble with being educated
... is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K. Dick
Labels:
Vocations
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Strange enthusiasm?
To set but a low value upon toast[ers] is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
E.V. Lucas
E.V. Lucas
Labels:
Technology
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Cheerfulness reconsidered
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Labels:
Mental Hygiene
Monday, September 6, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Picture perfect?
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz
Labels:
Family
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Paranormal policy?
I’m all for saluting the maternal sixth sense, though I’m not sure I want a government run by intuition.
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Labels:
Unnatural Phenomena
Friday, September 3, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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