Archives - March 2009

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

The best way out is always through.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Insanity is hereditary --- you get it from your kids.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tears!