Quote of the Day #7

"The only real fault is not to change one's faults."

--Kermit Buddha Master of Zen

Janie's Quote of the Day #6

"You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad."

--Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

Janie's Quote of the Day #5

"My country is the world and my religions is to do good."

--Thomas Paine

Janie's Quote of the Day #4

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

--G. K. Chesterton

(Go read some Father Brown mysteries. They're great fun!)

Janie's Quote of the Day #3

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

--Mark Twain

Janie's Quote of the Day #2

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

--Mark Twain

Janie's Quote of the Day #1

"Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
--Mark Twain

I don't know what it is with me and Mark Twain and cats...