November 30, 2011

November's sky is chill and drear,
November's leaf is red and sear.

- Sir Walter Scott

November 29, 2011

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

- Glenn Beck

November 28, 2011

Lucy: You DO think I'm beautiful, don't you, Charlie Brown?
[pause]
Lucy: You didn't answer me right away. You had to think about it first, didn't you? If you really had thought I was beautiful, you would've spoken right up. I know when I've been insulted. I KNOW WHEN I'VE BEEN INSULTED.
Charlie Brown: Good grief.

- A Charlie Brown Christmas

November 27, 2011

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

- Christopher Morley

November 26, 2011

But he waved goodbye, sayin' "Don't cry, I'll be back again some day."

- Frosty the Snowman

November 25, 2011

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

- Barnett R. Brickner

November 24, 2011

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

- Robert Brault

November 23, 2011

No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes the picture.

- Doug Bartlow

November 22, 2011

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

- Ovid

November 21, 2011

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

- Carl Sandburg

November 20, 2011

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show,

- Andrew Wyeth

November 19, 2011

They're kind of in their own little world. A lot of them probably didn't really know what was going on.

- Richard Harvala

November 18, 2011

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

- Glen Beaman

November 17, 2011

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.

- Author Unknown

November 16, 2011

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.

- Author Unknown

November 15, 2011

I've never understood the term "Fun Size!". There is absolutely nothing funner about smaller portion sizes!

- Whitney Crandall

November 14, 2011

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

- David Mamet, Boston Marriage

November 13, 2011

Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

- Luke Salisbury

November 12, 2011

If it is true that one of the greatest pleasures of gardening lies in looking forward, then the planning of next year's beds and borders must be one of the most agreeable occupations in the gardener's calendar. This should make October and November particularly pleasant months, for then we may begin to clear our borders, to cut down those sodden and untidy stalks, to dig up and increase our plants, and to move them to other positions where they will show up to greater effect. People who are not gardeners always say that the bare beds of winter are uninteresting; gardeners know better, and take even a certain pleasure in the neatness of the newly dug, bare, brown earth.

- Vita Sackville-West

November 11, 2011

From a little spark bursts a mighty flame.

- Dante Alighieri

November 10, 2011

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

- Edward Koch

November 09, 2011

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

- Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

November 08, 2011

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

- Henry Ellis

November 07, 2011

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.

- Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

November 06, 2011

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.

- Angela Schwindt

November 05, 2011

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

- John Burroughs

November 04, 2011

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

November 03, 2011

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

- A.A. Milne

November 02, 2011

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

- Frank Sinatra

November 01, 2011

There are no reports of widespread power outages, no problems with heating and that sort of thing. So just stay off the roads and everything should be fine.

- Ken Davis