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JohnT · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 9:29 pm Post subject:

“Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.”

― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer (born 1890, died 1976)

Teri · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 7:33 am Post subject:

This morning's forecast: 100% chance of coffee ~Keith Wynn

Teri · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 5:53 am Post subject:

A man without a mustache is like tea without sugar. ~English Saying

Teri · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:26 am Post subject:

Don't make a tragedy of a simple failure. Study your capabilities first, and if you have overrated their strength, try again, going more slowly. ~Minna Thomas Antrim

Teri · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:55 am Post subject:

Faith gets help from the other four-truths — happiness, wisdom, and knowledge. ~Althea Warren

JohnT · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:34 am Post subject:

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

-- Michael Bloomberg (born 1942)
Michael Bloomberg is an American politician, businessman, and author. He is the co-founder, CEO, and majority owner of Bloomberg L.P. He was the 108th Mayor of New York City.

Teri · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:52 am Post subject:

Doubts and fears are the heaviest burdens. ~James Lendall Basford

JohnT · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:50 pm Post subject:

"Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away—might be useful one day."

—James Holzhauer, from an interview on Good Morning America
James Holzhauer is an American game show contestant and professional sports gambler (born circa 1984-1985). He has been called 'Jeopardy James'.

Teri · Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:10 am Post subject:

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. ~Robert Brault

Teri · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 5:14 am Post subject:

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past. ~Alexander Smith

JohnT · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 7:06 am Post subject:

“Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.”

― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void.

Teri · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:14 am Post subject:

Midnight: The Pole of the hours; a pincushion on which sparkle all the seconds of a day. ~Elbert Hubbard

Teri · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:47 am Post subject:

Optimism is the sunshine of the soul. ~Old Saying

Teri · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:59 am Post subject:

Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb

Teri · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:46 am Post subject:

In a dream you are never eighty. ~Anne Sexton