For those who are tired of the same old thing-John.

Winston Churchill once observed that:
"Men occaisionally stumble over the truth; but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened".
Well, here comes a little truth, and a little foolishness. These are quotes and sayings which have a variety of sources-including some of mine.
Wherever possible, I will try and quote the source. If unknown the initials UNK will appear following it. In the csae of my own Hutch. will appear. Enjoy...

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement-Will Rogers

And following on that theme-I remember a portrayal of Mark Twain done by Hal Holbrook: "You know, a man that grabs a bull by the tail is getting sixty-to-seventy times as much information as the man who hasn't. A man who starts in to carry a cat home by the tail is getting information that's always going to be useful to him. It is never liable to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are he won't carry the cat that way again. However, if he wants to-I say let him-it isn't always easy to be eccentric you know".

The greatest gift a man can give to his children-is to love their mother-Readers Digest.

After life-children are the greatest gift given to us by God-Hutch.

Children are also God's way of making us all believe in Miracles-Hutch.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs-UNK

Man is glorious and happy; not by what he has, but by what he is. He can receive nothing better, or nobler than the unfolding of his own spiritual nature-William Ellery Channing

Where there is faith there is love; where there is love there is peace; where there is peace there is God; and where there is God, there is no need-Leo Tolstoy

Man is the only animal that blushes-or needs to-Mark Twain

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves-Will Rogers

Wherever there is life-there is hope-Hutch.

Thousands of tired-nerve-shaken people are begining to find that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity-Naturalist John Muir

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in; for it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity-Wallace Stegner in National Geographic

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around-Will Rogers

And remember-your dog will always love you-Hutch.

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by those which take our breath away-UNK-contributed by Elizabeth Lucas-Taylor

I have seen flowers come in stony places; and kindness done by men with ugly faces; and the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races-John Masefield

The most disappointed people in the world are those who get what is coming to them-UNK

The reward of one duty is the power to fullfil another-George Eliot

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain-Neitzche

Life is the gift of God-and is divine-Longfellow

Anytime that you discover that neither your enemies nor your friends are saying unkind things about you, you have reason to be alarmed beause you may be dead and not know it!-UNK