"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”


-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."-G K Chesterton

"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."-George Bernard Shaw

"What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability."-Also By George Bernard Shaw

"Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."-Mark Twain

BB

Well-behaved women seldom make history ~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich~

A bit long, and will probably get in touble for it.


Who can own the Sky?

Tarquin sat before the Elf, the Fox Rider no more than a foot, his voice soft, speaking in the tongue of the Hidden Ones> {“Mankind is not like the People, for he seeks to lay claim to all he touches, to all he sees and feels.
“Yet who can own the sky? Who can own the wind or the rainbows? Who can own the rain or the waters of the world, the laughing of brooks or the roar of thunder? Or stones and mountains, the very bones of the earth? And who can own the grass and the trees, the forests, the plains? Who can own the birds of the air and the creatures of the land, the fish that swim in the waters? Who can own any of these songs of earth?
“Man would say, ‘I. I own all. I have dominion. It is mine! To do with as I will!’

“But the People say, Nay! None owns the world… or it is owned by all, for all is sacred. Every shining leaf, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every humming insect. All are to be revered.
“We are part of the earth and it is part of us. And it is to be cherished and loved and nurtured, for it is precious. It is our mother and father, and all things upon it are our brothers and sisters. The Bear, the Deer, the Eagle, the Fox, these are our kindred, even the flowers. The air that breathes over us, the shining waters that flow in the streams and rivers and lap the ocean shores, this is our lifeblood.
“The earth does not belong to anyone; instead, we belong to the earth. All things are entwined in the great web of life, and whatever is done to the web in one place will cause tremors felt throughout.
“Who owns the world? Might as well ask, Who owns the wind?…”}

Conversation between Tarquin of the Hidden Ones with Aravan the elf.
Pp367-368

Author: Dennis L. McKiernan
“The Eye of the Hunter”

I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not ging to church. Homer Simpson

"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."-Victor Hugo

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."-T S Eliot

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."-Theodore Roosevelt

"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."-Voltaire

"Every part of this Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the Red Man." Cheif Seattle(1851)


Always loved that speech!

“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

Lao-Tzu

Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.

Winston Churchill

"We dance around in circles and suppose, but the answer sits in the middle and knows"

--Unknown


Dragon Dreamer

(This Quote has helped me numerous times with regards to negative people and has been my shield):


** If you are the receipiant of a gift and you refuse the gift, to Whom does the gift belong?**

Budda

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller

“As long as the mind does not become obsessed with good and bad, you will realize that all things are basically just as they are supposed to be.”

~ Ta-mei (ca.805)