Legends of the Fall
SteveMR200
have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full
moon every night.
--Hal Borland
_Sundial of the Seasons_ [1964]
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering
together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of
scattering abroad.
--Edwin Way Teale
_Autumn Across America_ [1956]
Memory can glean, but never renew. It brings us joys
faint as is the perfume of flowers, faded and dried,
of the summer that is gone.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
--
Steve
Dolores
> Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would
> have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full
> moon every night.
> --Hal Borland
> _Sundial of the Seasons_ [1964]
Ah, yes, I'll take a high tide and a full moon every night!
And summer all year long too.
---Dolores
ObQ:
"Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as
I thought." -Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901) Swiss novelist
"Heidi," Ch. 11, 1885
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Dolores
> Memory can glean, but never renew. It brings us joys
> faint as is the perfume of flowers, faded and dried,
> of the summer that is gone.
> --Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
"I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living."
-William Maxwell, Essay: "Nearing 90", NYTimes Magazine, 3/9/97.
(William Maxwell was a fiction editor at "The New Yorker " Magazine for 40
years.)
This is one of my favorite quotes.
---Dolores
Dolores
> Memory can glean, but never renew. It brings us joys
> faint as is the perfume of flowers, faded and dried,
> of the summer that is gone.
> --Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
"Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume."
-Jean de Boufflers, 1738-1815
David McKay
-William Maxwell, Essay: "Nearing 90", NYTimes Magazine, 3/9/97.
Great quote indeed, Dolores.
To assist in this delight of living, we have our photos lovingly crammed
into frames all over the house, not hidden in photo albums.
Every time I see your face
It reminds me of the places we used to go
And all I've got is a photograph
And I realise you're not coming back any more
from Ringo Starr's first solo album.
David McKay
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~musicke
The Sanity Inspector
<mus...@ozemail.com.au> shared with usenet this thought:
Photograph
I don't want your
Photograph
I don't need your
Photograph
All I've got is a
Photograph
I wanna touch you.
-- Def Leppard
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
Lemming
>Photograph
>I don't want your
>Photograph
>I don't need your
>Photograph
>All I've got is a
>Photograph
>I wanna touch you.
>-- Def Leppard
Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences.
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph.
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you
-- Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends
--
Lemming
Curiosity *may* have killed Schrödinger's cat.
Dolores
[Dolores wrote]:
> "I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living."
> -William Maxwell, Essay: "Nearing 90", NYTimes Magazine, 3/9/97.
>
> Great quote indeed, Dolores.
> To assist in this delight of living, we have our photos lovingly crammed
> into frames all over the house, not hidden in photo albums.
> David McKay
Yep, if we didn't have photographs, we would forget so many wonderful moments.
I believe strongly in keeping photos in view around the house. I think it
strengthens family bonds. I still remember the photos which were displayed in
our house as we were growing up. Those memories stay with me year after year.
I'm hoping our children will remember what we have on view in our house. I
always enjoy it when they bring in new friends and show them certain photos
which seem to be their favorites.
---Dolores
ObQ:
"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the
months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look
at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years ago. You see them as you
remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I
think a photograph can be kind."
-Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Physicist, philosopher
(Thanks to Morgan Lewis for this quote which he posted at a.q. a while
ago. -D.)
SteveMR200
wrote:
>"Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as
>I thought." -Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901) Swiss novelist
>"Heidi," Ch. 11, 1885
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
_An Ideal Husband_ [1895], Act II
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
--Aesop (c. 550 BC), _The Old Man and Death_
Beware, my lord! Beware lest stern Heaven
hate you enough to hear your prayers!
--Anatole France (1844-1924)
_The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard_ [1881]
--
Steve
Sheila Dundee
completely. That is why I
>think a photograph can be kind."
>-Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Physicist, philosopher
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good
natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
~Peg Bracken, The I Hate to Housekeep Book.
Sheila Dundee (just think Elle -close enough)
________________________
Graham J Weeks
<salty...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the
> months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look
> at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years ago. You see them as you
> remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I
> think a photograph can be kind."
> -Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Physicist, philosopher
This explains why my wife has the wedding photos of the young, slim,
clean-shaven, non-smoker she married.
ObQ
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.
--
Graham J Weeks M.R.Pharm.S.
http://www.weeks-g.dircon.co.uk/ My homepage of quotations
http://www.grace.org.uk/churches/ealing.html Our church
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Before you complain, read the Book.
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Sheila Dundee
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke
~WS, Much Ado About Nothing, I, i, ( l. 271)
Sheila Dundee
__________________
Dolores
[Dolores wrote]:
I always tell myself that if we believe the unflattering photos of ourselves,
we also have to believe the flattering photos of ourselves.
-Dolores
ObQ:
"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in
other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the
painter remembers."
-John Berger (1926 - ____) English painter, teacher, art critic
Dolores
"Dolores" wrote:
> > "A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through
the
> > months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to
look
> > at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years ago. You see them as
you
> > remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why
I
> > think a photograph can be kind."
> > -Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Physicist, philosopher
>
> This explains why my wife has the wedding photos of the young, slim,
> clean-shaven, non-smoker she married.
This is a universal phenomenon...the way we "change completely" as we age. I
still haven't quite accepted the idea. When I look in the mirror, I seem to
insist on seeing the younger me. Only sometimes do I allow myself to see the
older me.
---Dolores
ObQ:
"Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's
mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
-George Orwell (1903 - 1950) English novelist, critic
"Nineteen Eighty-Four," pt. 2, ch. 9, 1949.
Dolores
> > "A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through
the
> > months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to
look
> > at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years ago. You see them as
you
> > remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why
I
> > think a photograph can be kind."
> > -Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Physicist, philosopher
>
> This explains why my wife has the wedding photos of the young, slim,
> clean-shaven, non-smoker she married.
A friend once showed me her wedding album. As I looked at the photo of the
bride and groom, I pointed to her husband and said: "Who's that?" I was
immediately embarrassed at my faux pas. My friend replied calmly: "He had hair
then." To make matters worse, I started giggling about the situation. Nothing
changes a man like the loss of his hair, I think. However, they shouldn't let
it bother them. I remember having a crush on a young fellow who was balding
prematurely...the lack of hair didn't bother me in the least. Yet he insisted
on wearing caps. Too bad he didn't realize that personality is all. We realize
that later in life, I suppose.
ObQ #1:
"Bald is beautiful." -from a plaque
---Dolores, who's Dad was bald. (I keep the plaque near his picture.)
ObQ #2:
"Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald."
-Chinese Proverb
Sheila Dundee
______________________
Those interested in thread drift will no doubt find this one a
doozy.....having meandered from summer's end , through photography to
baldness
In replying to the post on baldness, I contemplated that a header change
was probably in order...only to realise that I can comfortably dedicate the
existing title to all the follicle-challenged *men of wit* among us. ;-)
OBQ
This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men
who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors
of the mind.
~Djuna Barnes, Smoke (1982)
Sheila Dundee
___________________
Dolores
> Those interested in thread drift will no doubt find this one a
> doozy.....having meandered from summer's end , through photography to
> baldness
> ...I can comfortably dedicate the existing title
> to all the follicle-challenged *men of wit* among us. ;-)
I had contemplated changing the subject-title, but somehow it seemed a shame
to interrupt the line of thought. The progression itself was interesting. To
switch titles would have somehow spoiled the rhythm of the conversation.
Fortunately, Steve's title was vague enough to encompass a wide variety of
ideas, as Sheila so cleverly demonstrated. Leaves fall down and hair falls
out.
I'm trying to think of an ending for the following sentence:
"Switching titles would have been like... "
Hmmm...."like changing horses in mid-stream?" Nah!
---Dolores, not good at similes...
ObQ:
"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."
Tom Sharpe (1928- ____) English comic novelist, historian
David C. Kifer
>
> >"Bald is beautiful."
> ______________________
> Those interested in thread drift will no doubt find this one a
> doozy.....having meandered from summer's end , through photography to
> baldness
The blessing and curse of newsgroups, I love to watch thread drift!
> In replying to the post on baldness, I contemplated that a header change
> was probably in order...only to realise that I can comfortably dedicate the
> existing title to all the follicle-challenged *men of wit* among us. ;-)
Very good, Sheila! Nice return... :-)>
> OBQ
> This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men
> who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors
> of the mind.
> ~Djuna Barnes, Smoke (1982)
Babies haven't any hair;
Old men's heads are just as bare;
Between the cradle and the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave
--Samuel Hoffenstein
[copy to Graham, until we sort out what the problem is]
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
Dolores
> Sheila Dundee wrote:
> > [...]
> > In replying to the post on baldness, I contemplated that a header
change
> > was probably in order...only to realise that I can comfortably dedicate
the
> > existing title to all the follicle-challenged *men of wit* among us. ;-)
>
> Very good, Sheila! Nice return... :-)>
Sure was!
This sounds like a game of tennis. ("Nice return.")
The simile rings true.
I love it. Can't stop.
Quotes are like peanuts. You can't read just one.
---Dolores
ObQ:
"Football Is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing.
Football is a team game. So is life."
-Joe Namath (1943 - ____) US football player
In "The Book of Football Wisdom," ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1996
Juan Rodriguez
There was a great humorist in Uruguay; who wrote under the nom de plume
of "Wimpy" (three or four generations ago). Once they asked him for a
photograph, to print it on the cover of onw of his books; he sent instead
an X-ray, explaining that "a photograph is a picture which show our past;
an X-ray is a picture which shows our future. Eventually, when only our
bones remain, we will look like them."
ObQ: Le seul moyen de rester jeune en vieillissant, c'est de renoncer à
le paraître.
Gustave Thibon, "L'équilibre at l'harmonie."
(The only way to remain young while growing old, is not to try to
look it.
uan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero; ja...@halcyon.com
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 - 2940 U. S. A.
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Une réaction excessive est souvent un remède pire que le mal.
Est-ce rendre service à un aveugle, qui frôle le fossé de droite,
que de le pousser si fort qu'il tombe dans le fossé de gauche?
Gustave Thibon, "L'équilibre et l'harmonie"
Graham J Weeks
>Sheila Dundee wrote:
>
>> In replying to the post on baldness, I contemplated that a header change
>> was probably in order...only to realise that I can comfortably dedicate the
>> existing title to all the follicle-challenged *men of wit* among us. ;-)
>
>Very good, Sheila! Nice return... :-)>
The worst moments of my life come when the barber picks up that mirror to
show me the back of my head. I do not want to view the sight.
>
>Babies haven't any hair;
> Old men's heads are just as bare;
>Between the cradle and the grave
> Lies a haircut and a shave
>--Samuel Hoffenstein
Only one of each?
I am thankful that AFAIK baldness only affects the top half of the head.
ObQ
Our company does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, or
religion... unless the religions are bizarre and unpopular and can be
considered cults (and so may be freely discriminated against), or you are
a short, fat, bald, ugly,white heterosexual male (and can be picked on
without restraint), or are a nerd, smoker, or single person. Stupid people
may now also be discriminated against due to the failure of their lobbying
efforts.
Dolores
[..]
> ObQ: Le seul moyen de rester jeune en vieillissant, c'est de renoncer à
> le paraître.
> Gustave Thibon, "L'équilibre at l'harmonie."
> (The only way to remain young while growing old, is not to try to
> look it.
Can you please clarify what Thibon meant by that quote?
Thanks.
---Dolores
ObQ:
"Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book."
-Ronald Blythe, "The View in Winter," 1979
Graham J Weeks
<hone...@chariot.net.au> wrote:
>
> In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke
> ~WS, Much Ado About Nothing, I, i, ( l. 271)
>
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
William Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 2.
....and some other "duties" :-)
Sheila Dundee
> Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
> William Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 2.
> ....and some other "duties" :-)
Oh my..now we are threading into the results of *another* Fall!!
;-)
OBQ's
I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give
birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule
over you
~ Bible, Gen 3.16-17
Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their
husbands in everything.
~ Bible,Col. 5.24
Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to
excel the other, and because they spend of their property for the support of
women. So good women are the obedient.
~Koran, Ch. IV
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of
man
~ Confucius, c. 500BC
Most of these feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and
to lead them home...feminists hate men, they're sexist that's their problem.
~Jerry Falwell (1991)
Sheila Dundee
_______________________________
Juan Rodriguez
Dolores <salty...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Juan Rodriguez <ja...@halcyon.com> wrote
>[..]
>> ObQ: Le seul moyen de rester jeune en vieillissant, c'est de renoncer à
>> le paraître.
>> Gustave Thibon, "L'équilibre at l'harmonie."
>> (The only way to remain young while growing old, is not to try to
>> look it.
>> Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero
>
>Can you please clarify what Thibon meant by that quote?
>Thanks.
>---Dolores
As I understand it, he means that to remain young you have to stop
trying to look young; that you can BE young even if you don't look it,
or maybe even brcause you don't strive to look young.
ObQ: Love is blind, especially to risk.
Prof. Elliot Schimoff
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero; ja...@halcyon.com
Dolores
> >> ObQ: [...]
> >> Gustave Thibon, "L'équilibre at l'harmonie."
> >> (The only way to remain young while growing old, is not to try to
> >> look it.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >---Dolores
>
> As I understand it, he means that to remain young you have to stop
> trying to look young; that you can BE young even if you don't look it,
> or maybe even brcause you don't strive to look young.
Thanks for the clarification. I had suspected that was what the quote meant.
However, I disagree with that. Just look at the white-haired ladies compared
to the artificially blonde ones at the supermarket. The white-haired ladies
definitely look older in my opinion, even if they are about the same age as
the artificially blonde ones. This is also true of women who are heavy vs
women of the same age who are trim. The trim ones look younger.
It has been my experience that if you feel you look younger, you act younger.
And if you feel you look older, you act older. Or perhaps this is a case of
the chicken and the egg...which comes first...the behavior or the appearance?
Another conundrum.
OR...perhaps there are really 3 factors to consider, not only behavior and
appearance, but also how one feels. One can *behave* one way, or *appear* one
way, and actually *feel* another way inside.
Examples:
One may appear young, behave young, but feel old.
One may appear old, behave old, but feel young.
And there's also the possibility that one may appear old, behave old, feel
old...and *BE* old. Let's face it, it's very hard to be old and appear young.
When you're old, you may appear youngER than you really are, but you'll never
appear truly *young*...unless you have a face lift. LOL
---Dolores
ObQ:
"Inside every older person, there's a younger person wondering what happened."
-Anon.
Dolores
> >> ObQ: Le seul moyen de rester jeune en vieillissant, c'est de renoncer à
> >> le paraître.
> >> Gustave Thibon, "L'équilibre at l'harmonie."
> >> (The only way to remain young while growing old, is not to try to
> >> look it.
> >> Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero
> >
> >Can you please clarify what Thibon meant by that quote?
> >Thanks.
> >---Dolores
>
> As I understand it, he means that to remain young you have to stop
> trying to look young; that you can BE young even if you don't look it,
> or maybe even brcause you don't strive to look young.
Thanks for your reply.
See my reply under the new subject:
"Looking old [Was Re: Legends of the Fall]"
---Dolores
Dolores
experience the aging process well after 60 or 65 years of age, you really
can't speak about it with any credibility, IMO.
---Dolores
ObQ:
". . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is
innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some
way from our senses."
-William Harvey (1578 - 1657) English physician
Dolores <salty...@yahoo.com> wrote
Lemming
>ObQ:
>"Inside every older person, there's a younger person wondering what happened."
>-Anon.
I'm pretty sure I've seen the above attributed to John Cleese.
ObQuote:
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
-- Jonathan Swift
Dolores
> "Dolores" <salty...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >ObQ:
> >"Inside every older person, there's a younger person wondering what
happened."
> >-Anon.
>
> I'm pretty sure I've seen the above attributed to John Cleese.
> ObQuote:
> Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
> -- Jonathan Swift
Thanks, but I found that the author isn't John Cleese.
Ashleigh Brilliant is the author.
See http://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/catalog.html
Quote # 1390 by Ashleigh Brilliant.
Also, your post made me curious. Via google.com I found the following website:
http://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/Mensa.html
It states that Ashleigh Brilliant is the creator of the quote: "Inside every
older person, there's a younger person wondering what happened."
The website presents a short biography about epigrammatist, Ashleigh
Brilliant, who is evidently a member of MENSA, "an international society for
people with IQ's in the upper 2%."
Another bit of information at the website was of special interest to me:
==================
"I was able to help Ashleigh on one of his more successful community activist
efforts, a push to ban gas-powered leaf blowers: 'Your right to make noise
ends where my ear begins,' expressed Ashleigh's reaction to these raucous
invaders of suburban privacy. Sharing his distaste I put him in touch with
like-minded Palo Alto activists. Ashleigh succeeded in getting the Santa
Barbara City council to ban the blowers."
-B. Meredith Burke
==================
-Dolores, very aware of noise pollution and happy to see others are as well...
Juan Rodriguez
Lemming <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>"Dolores" <salty...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>ObQ:
>>"Inside every older person, there's a younger person wondering what happened."
>>-Anon.
>
>I'm pretty sure I've seen the above attributed to John Cleese.
>
>ObQuote:
>
>Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
> -- Jonathan Swift
They tell that a traditional Russian birthday greeting is "may you have
a hundred more birthdays, ant not grow any older."
SteveMR200
Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers
the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it,
to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.
--Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
_Journal_ [July 22, 1862]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
wrote:
>In article <1ns9rtkipqdciulcs...@4ax.com>,
>Lemming <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
>> -- Jonathan Swift
>
>They tell that a traditional Russian birthday greeting is "may you have
>a hundred more birthdays, ant not grow any older."
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
birthday but never remembers her age.
--Robert Frost (1874-1963)
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
_Sonnets_ [1609], Sonnet 104, line 1
--
Steve
Dolores
> A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
> birthday but never remembers her age.
> --Robert Frost (1874-1963)
>
> To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
> For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
> Such seems your beauty still
> --William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
> _Sonnets_ [1609], Sonnet 104, line 1
Ah, WS was truly a diplomat! LOL
Music to my ears.
What kind words.
I wish someone would say them to me. (g)
---Dolores
ObQ:
"A compliment is verbal sunshine."
-Robert Orben (1927 - ____) US editor, writer
Paul Marrane
l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk wrote:
> "Dolores" <salty...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >ObQ:
> >"Inside every older person, there's a younger person wondering what
> >happened."
> >-Anon.
>
> I'm pretty sure I've seen the above attributed to John Cleese.
>
> ObQuote:
>
> Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
> -- Jonathan Swift
"Sometimes I feel that I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
Which actually works out pretty well."
--
Paul Marrane What's green, hangs on the wall, and whistles? A
paul_m...@hotmail.com red herring. But it isn't green! Well, you could
paint it green. But it doesn't hang on the wall!
What, there's a law you can't hang it on the wall?
But it doesn't whistle! Nu, so it doesn't whistle.
SteveMR200
<sj5tqtk6epuj0ercg...@4ax.com>:
>On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 23:03:22 -0400, "Dolores" <salty...@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>"Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as
>>I thought." -Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901) Swiss novelist
>>"Heidi," Ch. 11, 1885
>__________________________________________________________
>
>When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
> --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
> _An Ideal Husband_ [1895], Act II
>
>We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
> --Aesop (c. 550 BC), _The Old Man and Death_
>
>Beware, my lord! Beware lest stern Heaven
>hate you enough to hear your prayers!
> --Anatole France (1844-1924)
> _The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard_ [1881]
"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!"
In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
_Vanity of Human Wishes_ [1749], Line 255
--
Steve
Joe Fineman
-- Yiddish proverb
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: Whom the gods wish to elect president, they first make :||
||: rich. :||
SteveMR200
<sj5tqtk6epuj0ercg...@4ax.com>:
>On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 23:03:22 -0400, "Dolores" <salty...@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>"Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as
>>I thought." -Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901) Swiss novelist
>>"Heidi," Ch. 11, 1885
>
> --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
> _An Ideal Husband_ [1895], Act II
>
>We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
> --Aesop (c. 550 BC), _The Old Man and Death_
>
>Beware, my lord! Beware lest stern Heaven
>hate you enough to hear your prayers!
> --Anatole France (1844-1924)
> _The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard_ [1881]
has two ways of crushing us--by refusing our wishes
and by fulfilling them. But he who only wills what
God wills escapes both catastrophes.
--Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
_Journal Intime_ [1883], "April 10, 1881"
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Steve
SteveMR200
<2obqqtojao38dmmrs...@4ax.com>:
>For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering
>together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of
>scattering abroad.
> --Edwin Way Teale
> _Autumn Across America_ [1956]
But with every deed you are sowing a seed,
Though the harvest you may never see.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
_You Never Can Tell_
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Steve