Conversation
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Dorothy Nevill
Centre
"People want the front of the bus; back of the church and centre of attention."
Anon
More Blossom!!
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust
For the Thursday Challenge.
Mysterious
"If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments."
Malcolm Gladwell
For Lensday.
Tulips
"What flowers grow between your nose and your chin? .... Tulips."
Anon
Religion
"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."
James Feibleman
Precarious
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
Martin Luther King
Perfection
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Smilehurst
I think some children have been playing with the chalk again!! This was written on the pavement which I spotted on my way to catch a bus on Friday for an evening out. As I live in Tilehurst it did make me smile :o)
Digital
My new teeny weeny Ipod Nano :o)
For Pxite.
Golden
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
George Eliot
Sorry, another excuse to get Felix on here :o)
For Photo Friday.
Police
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."
Jeff Marder
Appreciation
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
Voltaire
Valuable
"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
John J. Plomp
For the Thursday Challenge.
Any time spent with my nephew is always valuable :o)
Last
"Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within."
Franz Kafka
The very last of the Daffodils, promise ;o)
Upward
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
Elizabeth Harrison
Serene
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely..."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colour
"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
Oscar Wilde
Solo
"I was never less alone than when by myself."
Edward Gibbon
Banquet
"Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl."
Homer
Daff
Hmmm, yes, it's another one ;-)
Friends
"In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips."
Anon
Magnolia
Or is it?
Mountain
An old one from Menorca last year.
For Pixite.
Strange
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Sir Francis Bacon
Bright
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Optimism
"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
Susan J. Bissonette
Egg
"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
Christina Baldwin
For Lensday - not quite an Easter one ;-)
Tiny
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughtless
"We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own."
Blaise Pascal
For Moody Monday.
Youthful
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
Oscar Wilde
Mystery
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
Rachel Louise Carson