Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.
Jason Zebehazy



Thank you, August, that meant a lot.

Be master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind.

Zen Saying

Gigi

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
~ Christopher Morley

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.

~ Mark Twain

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

~ Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"

"The reason lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." Willie Tyler

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
~ Hal Boyle

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. by Robert A. Heinlein

Gigi

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . . This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
~ Isaac Asimov

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
Richard Perle

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
~ Steven Wright

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this —— heat is making me absolutely crazy.
~ Jack Nicholson (1937-) Col. Nathan R. Jessop in A Few Good Men

It has been a mite bit warm around here lately. It was 105 on Saturday with a heat index of 115. Today its a wonderful 73.

"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

Jane Austen

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Vernon Howard

Your today will be my tomorrow, August, and my tomorrow will be your Thursday, Flutter. Relief is on the way!!!!!!

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Gigi

I cannot say that I don't disagree with you.
~ Groucho Marx

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
--Hunter S. Thompson

quote:

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
--Hunter S. Thompson

I love that quote...and may have it engraved on some part of my body before I go skidding.

Here's mine for today:
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

Gigi

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H.G. Wells