"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." Archibald Rutledge. "The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the only thing we can never give enough of is love." Henry Miller.

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." Jessamyn West. "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." Omar N. Bradley.

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do." Olin Miller. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgen). "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains." Anne Frank.

"I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." Adlai E. Stevenson. "Democracy is the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." Harry Emerson Fosdick.

"That's the thing about books. They're alive on their own terms. Reading is like traveling with an argumentative, unpredictable good friend. It's an endless open exchange." Alice Smith. "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius." Edward Gibbon.

Pepper, our 12 pound toy poodle, thinks she is responsible for defending us from every threat. If a bird lands on the front porch she barks furiously. She is absolutely indognant.

"If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along; if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution." Carl Sandburg. "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." Iris Murdoch.

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin. "Imagination was given to man to console him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." Horace Walpole.

@adventurer56.bsky.social We are pleased to announce that what's his name has passed away. There will be a vast number of rejoicers busily forgetting his meager accomplishments.

"The specialist learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything." Paul Dickson. "I always have a quotation about everything--it saves original thinking." Dorothy Parker.

"Comedy is laughing at somebody else. Humor is laughing at yourself. Boy, that's something that most people just can't get themselves to do, especially laughing at his own life, at his own cherished beliefs." Jean Shepherd. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch.

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." A. A. Milne. "Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." Doug Larson. "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." Confucius.

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the courage to bite people themselves." August Strindberg. "Love is not only something you find. It is something you do." David Wilkerson. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." Alfred Lord Tennyson.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it solely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Mark Twain.

Said of Wm. Keith, Governor of PA: "He wished to please everybody and, having little to give, he gave expectations." Benjamin Franklin. "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." Jeannette Rankin. "We are rich only through what we give." Anne-Sophie Swetchine.

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you have been." Madeleine L'Engle. "To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be human." Jane Harrison. "Don't be one to start an argument in an empty room."

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine, if the wine had been as old as the fish, if the fish had been as fresh as the maid, if the maid had been as willing as the hostess, it would have been a perfect dinner party." Anon.

"There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself." George Eliot. "We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights." Georg Wilhelm Hegel. "Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination." Marcel Proust. "You just can't beat a woman who looks city but cooks country." Wiserafter90.

"He asked me what I thought of the worthy Mozart and all his sins. I replied, however, that I should be only too happy to renounce all my virtues in exchange for Mozart's sins." Felix Mendelssohn. "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." John F. Kennedy.

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself." Oscar Wilde. "Truth will ultimately prevail when there is pains taken to bring it to light." George Washington. "I have not time to grow old... I am too busy for that." George MacDonald.

"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend she should just go ahead and be one." Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary). "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." Albert Camus. "Merely to live is itself an act of courage." Seneca.

"Never put off until tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well." Mark Twain. "To do good for 10 years is not enough. To do evil for a single day is too much." Anon. "We learn from our mistakes, but that does not mean the more mistakes the more learning." Anon.

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection." Thomas Paine. "The great tragedy of science, is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Huxley.

Today is an anniversary. One year ago today I posted my first quote on Bluesky. Now ready for a bonus: "There's no delicacy nowadays. No consideration for others. Refinement's a thing of the past! Manners are dead!" King Henry VIII.

@rebeccanash1246.bsky.social Welcome. I was immediately interested when I saw your moniker because my daughter's name is Rebecca, and also, her husband's nickname is Ash. But it was not her joining me, but again, I say welcome.

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike. "To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." Mark Twain. "Earth laughs in flowers." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

More Insults: "Thanks for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time in reading it." Moses Hadas. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." Oscar Wilde. "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." Stephen Bishop.

Classic insults: "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." Charles M. de Talleyrand. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice note saying I approved of it." Mark Twain. "I've just learned of his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." Irving S. Cobb.

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." James Thurber. "Put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with pleasure." Clarence Darrow.

"They'll tell you that you will lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it." Malcolm Cowley. "You & I are tied together by years of misunderstandings, cross words, icy silences, hugs, tenderness, and love." Ellyn Sanna.

"After 70 we stop counting our years and start counting our pills." Wiserafter90.

Donald Trump really really doesn’t like this photo, so whatever you do… don’t share it. He would HATE that. 😈

"At one time through love all things came together into one; at another time through strife's hatred they are born each of them apart." Empedocles. (a little paraphrased) "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." Vincent Van Gogh.

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." Luciano Pavarotti. "We all have our time machines. Those that take us back are memories. Those that take us forward are dreams." H. G. Wells.

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you can do while you're down there." George Burns. "Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you." Winston Churchill.

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them... Let them be your friends." Winston Churchill. "You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard.

"A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill? John Steinbeck. " The more we learn the more we realize how little we know." Buckminster Fuller.

"Just living is not enough, said the butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little sunshine." Hans Christian Anderson. "The wounds and blows inflicted by men... render them less able to bear the afflictions of heat and cold," Theophrastus.

"My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read." Abraham Lincoln. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the world." Albert Einstein. "An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do." Dylan Thomas.

"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion. "Everyone will have noticed with what skill a coin let fall upon the ground runs to hide itself." Victor Hugo.

"There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly." Coco Chanel. "Plan for the future, because that's where you are going to spend the rest of your life." Mark Twain.

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin." Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "Read in order to live." Gustave Flaubert.

"There is something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now." Angelina Jolie. "If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." Benjamin Franklin.

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." Robert Frost. "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech." George Bernard Shaw. " Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings. "You simply cannot hang a millionaire in America." Bourke Cockran. "It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish." J. R. R. Tolkien.

"Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them." Washington Irving. "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill.

--- Instead of a quotation today, I need to share something personal — and deeply serious.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once... it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." William Shakespeare.