Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell
The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~Ted Allen
If you are walking to seek, ye shall find. ~Sommeil Liberosensa
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autres, 1942
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone. ~J.M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows
No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
Angels are never too distant to hear you. ~Author Unknown
Grandfathers are just antique little boys. ~Author Unknown
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. ~Theodor Billroth
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. ~Winston Churchill
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ~Don Marquis
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ~Fred Allen
Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan
Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb
Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? ~Mary Oliver