Inspiration And Information

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A  JOB WELL DONE  . "If you're going to kill each other, do  it outside.. I just finished cleaning."  My mother taught me RELIGION . "You better pray that will come out of the carpet.."  My mother taught me about TIME  TRAVEL . "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock  you into the middle of next week!"  My mother taught me LOGIC . "  Because I said so, that's why."    My mother taught me MORE LOGIC  . "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going  to the store with me.."  My  mother taught me FORESIGHT . "Make sure you wear clean  underwear, in case you're in an accident."    My mother taught me IRONY . "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about." My Mother taught me about the  science of OSMOSIS  .  "Shut your mouth and eat your  supper."  M...

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.  ~William McFee    There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.  ~Diana Trilling He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.  ~Author Unknown Fate laughs at probabilities.  ~E.G. Bulwer-Lytton The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.  ~Robert Brault Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed.  ~Jessi Lane Adams There is no fate but your own fate.  ~Leslie Grimutter Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.  ~Lemony Snicket Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.  ~Albert Einstein I have a wife, I have sons:  all of them hostages given to fate.  ~Lucan No man ever wet clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance an...

          Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.     Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.  ~Mark Twain      Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.  ~James Thurber Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.  ~William James If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.  ~Mahatma Gandhi The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.  ~Peter De Vries    Humor is just another defense against the universe.  ~Mel Brooks Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.   ~Peter Ustinov The kind of humor I like is ...

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns. ~Michael Drayton Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939 Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns. ~Michael Drayton I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby todd...