Thursday, March 10, 2011

Number 205





I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Agatha Christie
English mystery author (1890 - 1976)



Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Number 204





Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.
Goldie Hawn
US actress & comedienne (1945 - )



Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Number 203





I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)



Monday, March 7, 2011

Number 202




Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)




Sunday, March 6, 2011

Number 201






The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
(1694 - 1773)




Saturday, March 5, 2011

Number 200




The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.




Friday, March 4, 2011

Number 199




The exception is not always exceptional.