I really appreciate all the supportive comments on my previous post. Thank you; I feel much better now. I hope to get word of a decision on Monday.

I spent most of today with family, and I am all the better for it.

Now, on with the show!

“By perseverance, the snail reached the Ark.” –C.H. Spurgeon

“I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.” –Henry Ward Beecher

“Not so much what a man says in the pulpit, but what he does out of the pulpit, gives power to the ministry.” –Henry Berkowitz

“To preach pie in the sky and to do nothing about the knife in a man’s back is hardly Christianity.” –Ugo Groppi

“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason, they cannot be destroyed by logic.” –Tryon Edwards

“Power without responsibility: the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.” –Rudyard Kipling

“Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling that smiling can for praying.” –Henry Ward Beecher

“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on a political office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.” –Thomas Jefferson

“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.” –Vera Brittain

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” –Goethe

“The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” –Thomas Holcroft

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.” –Sadd

“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.” –Tom Robbins

“Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.” –Anon

“Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.” –Alfred North Whitehead

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples’ patience.” –John Updike, Jr.

“When man ultimately faces his Maker, he will have to account to Him for those God-given pleasures of life of which he did not take full advantage.” –Anon

“I have no more patience than anyone else. It’s just that I use mine.” –Paderewski

“It is remarkable how many impure things a prude can discover that nobody else can discover.” –Anon

“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin

“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” –Bruce Barton

“We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.” –Alfred Adler

“Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.” –Robin Morgan

“The mome rath isn’t born that could outgrabe me.” –Nicol Williamson

One more diet coke and off to bed with me. No, the caffeine doesn’t bother me at all. Good night.

Mamacita, Scheiss Weekly