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JohnT · Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:57 pm Post subject:

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
[from Meditations Divine and Moral]”

― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet
-- She lived 1612 to 1672. She was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published.

Teri · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:41 am Post subject:

It is a bad sign when men do not like to hear of warnings in a world of danger. ~Rev. William Borrows

JohnT · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:28 pm Post subject:

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”

--- Rabindranath Tagore
--- He was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist, 1861-1941.

Teri · Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 4:49 am Post subject:

April Fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. ~Ambrose Bierce

JohnT · Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:18 pm Post subject:

Therefore, once and for all this short command is given to you:
"Love and do what you will."
If you keep silent, keep silent by love;
if you speak, speak by love;
if you correct, correct by love;
if you pardon, pardon by love:
let love be rooted in you, and from
the root nothing but good can grow.

-- St. Augustine of Hippo
-- Saint Augustine was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354 AD to 430 AD.

Teri · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 5:52 am Post subject:

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ~Robert Brault

JohnT · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:34 pm Post subject:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
― Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond, 1856-1950.

Teri · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 4:53 am Post subject:

What is called chance is the instrument of Providence. ~Horace Walpole

JohnT · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:26 pm Post subject:

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

--- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994, US President from 1969 to 1974)

Teri · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 4:52 am Post subject:

You can't fact-check crazy. ~David Corn

JohnT · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:20 pm Post subject:

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (He was called the Philosopher, was a Roman emperor from 161 to 180, lived 121 AD to 180 AD)

Teri · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:02 am Post subject:

The tall tree sees far but the traveling seed sees farther. ~Haitian proverb

JohnT · Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:18 am Post subject:

“Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints.”

― Sumner Davenport, author

Teri · Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:20 am Post subject:

Let us linger awhile in the wonderful old Lilac walk. It is a glory of tender green and shaded amethyst and grateful hum of bees, the very voice of Spring. ~Alice Morse Earle

Teri · Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 5:49 am Post subject:

And sometimes I think it is really better, if you have to choose, to drink beer out of an earthen pot and be kind and gentle, than to have a sharp nose for other folk's faults and be continually trying to pinch and prod the old world into the straight and narrow path of virtue. ~Elbert Hubbard