• Feb 14th, 1997 (and still true in 2008!!): ANYTHING THAT IS GOOD AND USEFUL IS MADE OF CHOCOLATE.
  
  
• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
  (Harry S. Truman)
  
  
• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing...
  
  
• Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.
  (Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898))
  
  
• "Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub.
  If you don't know anything about sex, it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs."
  (from THE DAUGHTERS OF THE WOLF)
  
  
• We work not only to produce but to give value to time.
  (EUGENE DELACROIX)
  
  
• (on the lighter side) : "If it's big and dark green and its bite makes you scream - that's a moray!" (from LISA's Journal )
  
  
• Creative Quotations from "Yogi" Berra (1925-____) born on May 12
  
  --You can observe a lot just by watching.--
  --If you come to a fork in the road, take it.--
  --I don't want to make the wrong mistake.--
  
  
• "If you think you're too small to be effective,
  you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
  
  
• Es gibt Menschen auf der Welt, welche die Gabe haben, überall Freude zu finden
  und sie zurückzulassen, wenn sie gehen.
  (There are people in the world , who have the gift to find joy everywhere,
  and to leave it behind, when they go.)
  (FABER) (danke, Gerhild!)
  
  
• The trouble with doing something right the first time
  is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
  
  
  
  
• To succeed you have to believe in something
  with all your heart and passion
  until it becomes a reality.
  (lifted from CHRISTINE MACKENZIE's desk in W. Hollywood)
  
  
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  (OSCAR WILDE)
  
  
• Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
  Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never the same.
  (ANONYMOUS)
  
  
• "It's funny about love. How you think you're in love,
  or you think you know your capacity for love.
  And suddenly someone comes along and shows you whole new rooms in your heart."
  (from BLOOD AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO WATER)
  
  
• THANKSGIVING:
  If you can't be satisfied with what you have received,
  be thankful for what you have escaped.
  (Anonymous, via LITA (lnorth@lorax.admin.arizona.edu)
  
  
• Jan. 21, 1998: Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you.
  Only the pig looks you in the eye.
  (from PETER MAYLE's Book "Chasing Cezanne")
  
  
• Jan. 26 : "LOVE is not two people gazing at each other,
  but two people looking ahead together in the same direction."
  (a birthday thought from ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY)
  
  
• Feb. 1: If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't kickin' hard enough!
  (Anonymous, via my friend KARIN, who also sent the next three musings, titled "HA!"
  
  
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
  
  
• When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
  
  
• Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film...
  
  
• The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain
  and simple to express:
  Err, and err, and err again
  but less, and less, and less.
  (PIET HEIN)
  
  
• I get this question all the time: "why arent' you married"?
  And my answer is always: "I dont' want to give up the admiration of many for the criticism of one"!
  (CLARA, photographer in New York; smart, successful and independent)
  
  
• April 1: Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
  (GEORGE CARLIN)
  
  
• "Money is better than poverty,
  if only for financial reasons."
  (WOODY ALLEN)
  
  
• Friday the 13th:They say that hard work wont hurt you, but why take a chance?
  
  
• "The love we give away is never gone;
  it is kept in the hearts of others."
  (UNKNOWN, via Danielle Tringali, SUNY Potsdam - tringa86@potsdam.edu)
  
  
  
• Das Leben zeigt sich nur in der Gestalt des Übergangs.
  (Life only shows itself in the form of change.)
  (FRIEDRICH HEBBEL)
  
  
• May 29, my mother's birthday: Goals without time limits are only wishes...
  (source?)
  
  
• Nature gives you the face you have at twenty;
  it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
  (COCO CHANEL, famous French fashion designer 1883-1970)
  
  
  

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