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JohnT · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:01 am Post subject:

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

― Voltaire
(François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, born 1694, passed 1778.)

Teri · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 6:37 am Post subject:

Is there any better way to prove your burning love to a girl than to give her ice‑cream? ~Richard D. Ware

JohnT · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 9:10 pm Post subject:

Ever since I was a little girl and could barely talk, the word "why" has lived and grown along with me...When I got older, I noticed that all questions can be asked and that many whys can never be answered. As a result I tried to work things out for myself by mulling over my own questions...So the word "why" not only taught me to ask, but also to think. And thinking has never hurt anyone. On the contrary, it does us all a world of good."

--- Anne Frank (June 1929 - February or March 1945)
(Anne was was a German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl.)

Teri · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:01 am Post subject:

Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd‑ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin... We anxiously anticipate it every year. ~Trader Joe's

Teri · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:08 am Post subject:

Voting is the language of democracy. ~Wade Henderson

Teri · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 4:47 am Post subject:

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~Gordon R. Dickson

JohnT · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 9:02 pm Post subject:

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."

--- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens (born 1812, passed 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Teri · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:01 am Post subject:

It's nice to have friends, but it's better when your friends are family. ~The Middle

JohnT · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:27 am Post subject:

“it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

― Barack Obama, born 1961, 44th President of the United States

Teri · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 5:38 am Post subject:

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Teri · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 4:35 am Post subject:

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe

JohnT · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 7:04 am Post subject:

"Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been."

-- From the chorus of "Truckin'", by the Grateful Dead
(The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, active years 1965 - 1995.)

Teri · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 4:48 am Post subject:

Coffee much quickens the spirits and makes the heart lightsome. ~An old coffee-house handbill

Teri · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:43 am Post subject:

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~Laurence Marks

JohnT · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 6:19 am Post subject:

"Dum spiro, spero"
("While I breathe, I hope")

-- It is Latin and a modern paraphrase of ideas that survive in two ancient writers, Theocritus and Cicero. It is the motto of South Carolina.