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For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
In Scotland, it was required that a woman who was thinking of taking advantage of the leap year privilege must let her intentions be known by wearing a scarlet flannel petticoat. The edge of the petticoat must be clearly visible in order to give the wary male a sporting chance to get out of the way. This is obviously a man-made rule.
Cause Life’s a Mess
3 Jun“The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.”
~ Andy Rooney
Perfect For This Season
1 AprPoliticians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
**Jose Maria de Queiroz
Do What you Love
30 MarFor, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
**Leonardo da Vinci
Are You Sure It’s Not Worse
28 MarThe odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
**Emma Bombeck
Jobs Should be Interesting, Not Death-Inspiring
14 MarOne thing that always bothers me, is that people read this quote to say that you should go have an “exotic” or “expensive” job. I often have people say that sometimes you just have to do the boring or depressing job because you need money. My answer is this–if the job isn’t something cool, then make it more fun. Be a happy person, play jokes, ask interesting questions, change the environment to be more fun. Just because the work itself is dull, doesn’t mean the job has to be. **DB
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie
Enjoy Your World
4 Mar“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
**Lev Grossman
Yet I Still Buy Them
2 Mar“All my life, I thought air was free. Then I bought a bag of chips.”
**Unknown
Happy “Leap Year!”
29 FebIn Scotland, it was required that a woman who was thinking of taking advantage of the leap year privilege must let her intentions be known by wearing a scarlet flannel petticoat. The edge of the petticoat must be clearly visible in order to give the wary male a sporting chance to get out of the way. This is obviously a man-made rule.
**Howard V. Harper
Open Mind is one Thing, and Empty Mind is Another
10 Feb“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
**Terry Pratchett
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
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