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")
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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")
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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")
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