If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

~Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
~ Benny Hill

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.~Will Smith

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald: (1896-1940) US author.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
~ Jacques Mayol

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
~ Walt Whitman

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
-- Stephen Leacock: (1869-1944) Canadian author, educator, economist, humorist.

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
~Oren Arnold

At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...
~ Edgar Guest

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!"~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons.
It came without tags.
It came without packages,boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
~ Dr Seuss

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.~Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in old age.~A.E.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
~ Arnold Lobel

I never ask for what I can buy.~George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.
~ Marlene Dietrich

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless sh**s.~William S. Burroughs

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please. - ~ John Wayne

The stitch of a book is its words.
-- Rumer Godden: (1907-____) English novelist.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.~Calvin & Hobbes