"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words." ~ Plautus

"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence." ~ Lord Byron

"If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passionflower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear She is coming, my life, my fate The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" &the white rose weeps,"She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait." -Tennyson

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms. Henry Ward Beecher

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. -Happy birthday, Wendell Berry!

Women sometimes indignantly deny that they dress for the eyes of men. They dress, they say, to please themselves, and are more interested in what women think than in what men think about their clothes. ~Robert Lynd

A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one... Happy birthday, Guy de Maupassant!

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"The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect." Terry Pratchett

From 2021. Every year I tel myself to wait for September. But then it gets crazy hot and I start decorating to help with my fantasy that Fall is closer thn it is.

"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit." - Sir Walter Scott 'The Talisman' (This is Frosty-- we look guilty here but that is just the camera :-))

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop. -Mary E. Pearson

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. -Thomas Mann

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

"When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy." ~ Dave Barry

If a woman rebels against high heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. -George Bernard Shaw

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-- they are few. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home.~ Happy birthday, Dennis Lehane

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -Aldous Huxley

"Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones." ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit." - Sir Walter Scott

"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood." ~ Phil Donahue

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved." ~ Jack Kerouac

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." ~ Albert Einstein

"Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart." - Karel Capek

Not wholly in the busy world, not quite beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. -- Tennyson

“A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.” ― Alice Hoffman

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you. -Paulo Coelho

"I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright." ~ Happy birthday, Percy Bysshe Shelley