October 07, 2010

We are lived by Powers we pretend to understand. ~ W. H. Auden

October 06, 2010

"Time out", for me as a child, was my dad taking time out of his day to whip my ass. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

October 05, 2010

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything.  If they fall off, they fall off, but its bad if you say anything to them. ~ J. D. Salinger (from "The Catcher in the Rye")

October 04, 2010

It is enough to say, I was weighed in the balance, and found wanting. ~ T. Croften Croker (from "The Banshee of  the MacCarthy's")

October 03, 2010

Defeat is not the worst of failures.  Not to have tried is the true failure. ~ George Edward Woodberry

October 02, 2010

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become REAL. ~ Margery Williams (from "The Velveteen Rabbit")

October 01, 2010

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. ~ Charles Dickens (from "Great Expectations")