For the Love of Kitty-Kats ~ #23

"The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry."

- French Proverb

The Way to Love Isn't Any One Way

I Can Hear Mah Jellybean Saying This

A little girl asked her mother, "Can I go outside and play with the boys?"

Her mother replied, "No, you can't play with the boys, they're too rough."

The little girl thought about it for a few moments and asked, "If I can find a smooth one, can I play with him?"

P.S. Although I would NEVER tell my girl she can't play with the boys because they're too rough. That's just silly!

The Sky is On Fire!

Kiss with a Gaze

"The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze."

- Gustavo Adolfo Bequer

Happy Valentine's Day!

Something

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

The Optimist & The Pessimist

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

 -James Branch Cabell

The World of Politicians

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." 

- Josh Billings

Many Little Things

"To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing."

-Author Unknown (quoted by Steven Covey)

Man's Inhumanity

"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."

- Alan Paton

Nyce Name (heh, heh) ~ I'm Sure It's Delicious!

Things Which Matter Most

Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

- Johann Von Goethe

One's Responsibility as a Free Man

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."

-Alan Paton

Altering One's Attitude

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

AND

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."

- James Truslow Adams (1878-1949)

The Right Track

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Arthur Godfrey

Misery

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."

-Robert Anthony

Baby Growing in dah Tummy

A mother once said...

"When I was six months pregnant with my third child, my four year old came into the room when I was just getting ready to get into the shower. She said, "Mommy, you are getting fat!"

I replied, "Yes, honey, remember Mommy has a baby growing in her tummy." 

"I know," she replied, "but what's growing in your butt?" 

Broken Things

"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again."

-Alan Paton    

The Halfway Moment

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it may be recalled and perhaps remedied.

- Pearl S. Buck

Why I Love Mah Honey-Man ~ Reason 74

Because we were listening to Led Zeppelin yesterday morning while making and eating breakfast together, and we all, including Jellybean, were enjoying the music a great deal, and my honey-man began this conversation (well, really, I just sat there grinning, eating my toast, listening to him go off) about the best classic rock bands of all time.  He mentioned early Genesis and Rush in this conversation of his, and at some point he paused and he somehow solicited an answer of agreement from me.  It was then that I made some snarky comment about how his opinion only dates him and severely so, but he didn't really hear my snarky comment clearly, so he responded in this way with great earnest:

"Wait, what did you say? I didn't hear that."

(I begin to giggle and laugh and he shakes his head to emphasis that he really means he did not hear me)

He continues: "I know that it something witty and demeaning, but what did you actually say?"

He is such a darling geek and I love him so.

UPDATE/CORRECTION: I let it slip late last night (Tuesday the 2th) that I'd blogged about this (above) and as I explained to my honey-man what I'd written about him, he was aghast to hear I'd misreported he had said 'classic rock', when "I said PROGRESSIVE rock, not classic. Progressive!"  And he wanted to be sure that I had emphasized EARLY Genesis, "before Phil Collins ever came into the picture, hell no."