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 ~

Sing!

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

~ Virgil ~

We Have Only This Moment

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...

~ Sir Francis Bacon ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

There is no box too small for a cat!

~ Kurious Kitty ~

Traveling

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

~ Lao Tzu ~


I'd like to be a good traveler, but the holidays require something else! --KK

Black Friday

First, a word of explanation, I've been sick with a killer cold, and then Thanksgiving came along, thus the paucity of quotes this week!

On this, the biggest shopping day of the season (year?), I offer you:

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?

~ Jeff Melvoin ~


Don't think about it for too long--it'll make you depressed.

Sunday's Kat Kwote on a Monday!

Sorry, I'm a little late with this, yesterday I thought it would be easier just to die. It's amazing what a baby I become when I'm sick. And it's nothing but a cold! (That's the scary part!)

Here's the Kat Kwote:

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Feeling under the Weather Today

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

~ Hippocrates ~

If you can figure out how to derive benefit from a lousy cold, let me know! --KK

Turkey Day's A Comin'

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

~ Todd English ~

Awards

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

~ Jack Benny ~

Brrr...

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

Censorship

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

Flanders Field

War does not determine who is right--only who is left.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

"You Want What?"

Okay, so the vet hands you a little plastic collection cup filled with tiny black pellets, and tells you to get a urine sample from the cat. Is he insane?

~ Kurious Kitty ~

The Responsibility is Ours

If we want principled, courageous elected officials, we need to be principled, courageous, and tenacious ourselves. History has demonstrated that our elected officials are not the leaders--the leadership has to come from us. If we don't insist, if we don't persist, then we are not living up to our responsibilities as citizens in a democracy--and our responsibilities as moral human beings.

~ Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, UT ~

Things Should Go So Well for Everyone!

I've just sort of gone with the flow and I ended up here. Crazy. I'm not going to start planning anything, my life is way better than anybody could have planned it.

~ Rachael Ray ~

TV, Too, Was Going to Eliminate the Book

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

~ Groucho Marx ~

Magical Powers!

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~

With Reservations...

I like making a piece of string into something I can wear.

~ Author Unknown ~

A Nice Thought

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~ James Barrie ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you.

~ Mary Bly ~

Hurricane Force Winds Expected...

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

~ William Arthur Ward ~

Painting

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

~ Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ~

How Mysterious Is A Cat?

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~