Dancing thoughtless pleasure's mazes...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers,

they rob them of both their time and money;

representing men, manners, and things that never have been, nor are likely to be;

either confounding or perverting history or truth, inflating the mind,

or committing violence upon the understanding.

John Aikin (1747-1822)

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time.

To give up something, when giving up will prevent unhappiness;

to yield, when persisting will chafe and fret others;

to go a little around rather than come against another;

to take an ill look or a cross word quietly, rather than resent or return it...

these are the ways in which clouds and storms are kept off,

and a pleasant and steady sunshine secured.

Passe-Partout

Douglas Noël Adams (1952-2001)

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable.

Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself,

and see if we may not eff it after all.

Ipecacuanha

"The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to;

but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity

is a species of moral ipecacuanha enough to destroy any comfort."

~~ Thomas Carlyle

"Oh, Tom, you ol' dotard! What a way with words you've got!"

~~ Jess D'Zerts

War... Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

The imponderables and the unforeseen

cannot be ignored in formulating foreign policy.

That is why a preventive war should always

be regarded as an act of criminal folly.

Sumner Welles, American diplomat, (1892-1961)

How many millions of tax dollars would be saved if we didn't have to pay the cost

of presidential retirement to George W. Bush for the rest of his life? Impeach now!