FriendshipGarden

janer · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject:

here's one for you Dee: old enough to be your mother, cheeky beggar!!

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

Aurua · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:10 am Post subject:

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
-Christopher Morley

Dee · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject:

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken.
- Benjamin Franklin

janer · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject:

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1

Aurua · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:16 am Post subject:

Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.

-American Indian Proverb, Navajo

janer · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject:

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler

Dee · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:11 am Post subject:

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.
Troy Aikman