"Holocaust jokes aren't funny. Anne Frankly, I won't stand for it!"

AH posted on Facebook

"...our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world."

John Steinbeck Travels With Charley (pg 70)

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Aristotle

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

"Shallow men believe in luck.

Strong men believe in cause and effect."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Europe Trip

Europe, here he comes!

Well, he will if he raises enough money in the next 8 months...

Right now I'm just looking for encouragement for his efforts, and maybe some ideas and suggestions, so please click on one of his links?  Thanks!

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

Noel Coward

"First time is funny,

Second time is just silly,

Third time's a spanking."

the grandmother in kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata

I don't think I have the quote exactly right, but close enough.

"If you're not getting older, you're dead."

Tom Petty

"Life is meant to be lived, not merely endured."

Theodore Roosevelt

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."


Gandhi

"How can I kill somebody when I pray five times a day for peace?"

Muhammad Ali

"A member of Ku Klux Klan doesn’t need a frying pan upside the head! He needs an Al Green record and some good books."

Henry Rollins

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas Edison

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."

Plato

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."

Dorothy Day

"Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul."  

Suzanne Fields (isn't she the cookie lady?)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke