Life in a day
A thought for every day in between the business of life
Monday 31 May 2010
To invent ....
To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
Sunday 30 May 2010
Knowledge comes ....
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Galloping Gardener
Saturday 29 May 2010
A banker ....
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining, but wants it back again the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
Tuesday 25 May 2010
In summer ...
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
Monday 24 May 2010
Life is like sailing
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Robert Brault
The Raven Foundation
Sunday 23 May 2010
What a strange illusion ...
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
Monday 17 May 2010
Poetry of the earth ...
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
Saturday 15 May 2010
Life is about ...
Life is about using the whole box of crayons.
Ru Paul
Friday 14 May 2010
Do not go ...
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday 13 May 2010
Travel ....
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
Paul Theroux
Wednesday 12 May 2010
A building has integrity ...
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand
Tuesday 11 May 2010
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock ...
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.
Rabindranath Tangore
Monday 10 May 2010
Castles in the air ....
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in -
and so easy to build too.
Heinrich Ibsen
The Galloping Gardener
Sunday 9 May 2010
Childhood is measured ...
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,
before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman
Friday 7 May 2010
Silence ...
Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rosetti
Thursday 6 May 2010
Never miss a rainbow ...
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I'm looking down.
Sara June Parker
Wednesday 5 May 2010
It's not whether ...
It's not whether you get knocked down,
it's whether you get up.
Vincent Thomas Lombardi
Monday 3 May 2010
Objects ...
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained;
most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
Saturday 1 May 2010
World's favourite season ...
The world's favourite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May.
Edwin Way Teale
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