“You’re never too old to become younger.”
Mae West, quoted on www.goodreads.com
“At Christmas I see myself as I really am. And as I could be, if I weren’t such a stinker. As the whole sick, weary, unhappy world sees itself as it might be, if it weren’t such a stinker. Noel! Joy! Peace awaits. Killings, brutality, meanness is here. Cry world.”
Frank Capra The Name Above the Title
“‘The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.’ – Franklin P. Jones”
NCC Overview Winter 2002 [they had "nobody is there" but I believe this version is correct]
"real eating will restore his sense of the festivity of being. Food does not exist merely for the sake of its nutritional value. To see it so is only to knuckle under still further to the desubstantialization of man, to regard not what things are, but what they mean to us… A man’s daily meal ought to be an exultation over the smack of desirability which lies at the roots of creation.”
Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb
"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your fears."
Rudyard Kipling, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
"A pessimist is a person who has not had enough experience to be a cynic."
Mary Pettibone Poole, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail July 27, 2001
“family: the thing on which all civilization is built; the idea that a man and a woman should live largely for the next generation and that they should, to some extent, defer their personal amusements, such as divorce and dissipation, for the benefit of the next generation.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 22, 1911, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #5 (March 2003)
“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
Sophocles, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com