Good Thought for the Day

It's Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day to all celebrating!
Random Thought for Today

Friday, I was the recipient of a floral bouquet featuring pink roses for Mother's Day!
Cool Site for Today

The Encyclopedia of Arda - a tribute to and a celebration of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The site is intended to evolve into an ( Read more... )

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

Amelia Earhart biography info

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind ( Read more... )

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy ( Read more... )

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you ( Read more... )

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Helen Keller Biography info

Who knew his last name? Not me... that's for sure.
His mother died when he was young.
He is probably the first artist to draw the human anatomy with painstaking details.
His best known works are the statue of David, and the Pieta and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel:
The Creation of the Heavens, The Creation of Man, The Erythraean Sibyl, and the ( Read more... )

"A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. "

"I will make you shorter by the head. "

"There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him. "

Elizabeth I, Queen of England