July 12, 2006


As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

Special treatment
Every hair
Holds it up
And cuts
It square
Burma Shave 1936


I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Nancy Reagan

ANIMALS
Part 13 of 32

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

Korea's poshintang - dog meat soup - is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.

Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Robert Jackson

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

James Madison

No legs have I to dance,
No lungs have I to breathe,
No life have I to live or die
And yet I do all three.
What am I?

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say will be misquoted then used against you.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute.If he isn't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing him again.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.