BOO!

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. - Rodney Dangerfield

Crop failure

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. -  Fred Allen

Trio on Winning

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything. - Mia Hamm


Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. - Paul Bryant


Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh. - Charlie Sheen

Good performer

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. - Ted Williams

Too many pills?

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. - Dave Barry

Two from Tagore

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. 


Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.  - Rabindranath Tagore

Our Motto

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. - Thomas Jefferson

Before last century this was our motto and national policy, however with World War I and growing American power, we have found ourselves drawn more and more into world politics. While I want to say that is good, it is not without cost.

Sharpening your vision

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.  - Helen Keller 

Mother of effort

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doubled by wonder

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Feelings, nothing more than feelings. . .

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. - Sydney J. Harris

Where do you find joy?

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore

Continual Christmas

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin

Adding color

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.  - Rabindranath Tagore 

On Valium

Cricket is basically baseball on Valium.  - Robin Williams 

Sanity??

Heh sanity? Sorry, I don’t recall ever having anything like that.  - Kenpachi Zaraki

Gratitude leads to beauty

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. 
- Friedrich Nietzsche 


Some quotes and there sources never cease to surprise me. Imagine how much more gratitude there is when you have some one to thank for the beauty you encounter in life.

Say what?

The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it. --James Wilson

Play Ball!

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.  - Tommy Lasorda 


St. Louis has pennant fever and is hoping the Cards go to the World Series, right now I am in highlight mode and watch them. Glad they're doing well, just not able to watch a lot of the game just yet.

Family Tree

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield 

Let's not bicker about who killed who

You should always tell your opponent your name before you beat him, as a courtesy. Somone who dies in battle should want to at least know who killed him. - Ikkaku to Renji

Leaves & roots

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. - Victor Hugo 

Autumn's beauty

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.  ~Albert Camus

Back Home

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.  - Benjamin Franklin 


The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. - Confucius 

Humble & angelic

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. - St. Augustine


I'll be away on Retreat the rest of the week and will return to regular posting this coming Saturday.

Flower power from the Little Flower

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.  -St. Therese de Lisieux