MARGARET THATCHER

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

ANON

Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.


Have you a minute? If so, have a quick look at http://haveyouaminute.blogspot.com

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh
and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Have you a minute? If so, have a quick look at
http://haveyouaminute.blogspot.com

LESLIE NIELSEN

Doing nothing is very hard to do - you never know when you’re finished.

Greek Proverb

A heart that loves is always young

All The Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II)
http://poetryforpleasure.blogspot.com

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Mary's Ghost (Thomas Hood)
http://poetryforpleasure.blogspot.com

MARGARET MEAD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

'Tis the Last Rose of Summer (Thomas Moore)
http://poetryforpleasure.blogspot.com

DAVID HUME

Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

A love poem by Queen Elizabeth I
http://poetryforpleasure.blogspot.com

MAHATMA GANDHI

Where there is love there is life.

I wandered lonely as a cloud (Wordsworth)
http://poetryforpleasure.blogspot.com

WILLIAM W. PURKEY

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.

beginning tomorrow
POETRY FOR PLEASURE
http://poetryforpleasure.blogspot.com

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

New - - - POETRY FOR PLEASURE - - - New
Every week-day a poem, ballad, humorous verses or song lyrics
beginning Monday 29th August
http://poetryforpleasure.blogspot.com

CONFUCIUS

If one’s mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear.

ANON

Don't pretend you know.
Start the day fresh and new.
The only thing you know is that you don't know.

MARY KAY ASH

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as the mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

THOMAS EDISON

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

THOMAS HARDY

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Three short poems by Thomas Hardy have been added today to
THOMAS HARDY - THE WESSEX POET
http://thewessexpoet.blogspot.com

MAE WEST

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough

LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

Viking Saying

Good sense is the best of burdens. While travelling, it is better than gold.

PIERRE NICOLE

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

GEORGE HERBERT

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

King James Bible - Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth
and be found out by accident

ARISTOTLE

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.

AMANDA McBROOM

It is the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

FRANCIS GRAY

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

NISARGADATTA

Wisdom tells me I'm Nothing.
Love tells me I'm Everything.
Between the two my life flows.

Chinese Proverb

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

GEORGE SAND

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.


Poetry is not a subject that appeals to many people. However, it has been very encouraging to note the interest that is being shown in the new Thomas Hardy blog. If you haven’t visited it yet, you may find it worth a look.
http://thewessexpoet.blogspot.com

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him, than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

SYDNEY HARRIS

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time.
It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

ERIN MAJORS

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

BLOG STATS
During the month of July my most popular blogs were -
My own Selection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings - 619 hits
Wise Men Say -527 hits
John's Gallery - 347 hits

RICHARD BRAUNSTEIN

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

ANON

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man.

Thomas Hardy's poem "At Casterbridge Fair" (complete) can now be read at -
http://thewessexpoet.blogspot.com

KITARO NISHIDA

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Tomorrow at THE WESSEX POET site -
the complete poem "At Casterbridge Fair"
http://thewessexpoet.blogspot.com

JOHN F.KENNEDY

An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it

CARL SCHURZ

Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but, like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them reach your destination.

KATHLEEN NORRIS

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

BARON de MONTESQUIEU

Great lords have their pleasures, but the people have fun

MASTER OF COLOUR
the paintings of William Merritt Chase
http://masterofcolour.blogspot.com

SIVANANDA

Love expects no reward.
Love knows no fear.
Love gives - does not demand.
Love thinks no evil - imputes no motive.
To Love is to share and serve.

THE WESSEX POET
The poems of Thomas Hardy
http://thewessexpoet.blogspot.com

ROBERT BLOCH

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

True friendship is like sound health.
The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

In the hope of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

ELLA FITZGERALD

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

I can enjoy society in a room; but out-of-doors nature is company enough for me.

Arabian Proverb

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.

The DALAI LAMA

My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else


Announcing two new blogs -

THE WESSEX POET
The poems of Thomas Hardy
begins tomorrow 17th July
http://thewessexpoet.blogspot.com
And
MASTER OF COLOUR
The paintings of William Merritt Chase
begins on Monday 18th July
http://masterofcolour.blogspot.com

JOHN MUIR

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.

ANON

Live for today,
Forget tomorrow,
Think of your hopes
And not your sorrow.

MARGARET THATCHER

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Ven. K. Sri. DHAMMANANDA

Happy is he who has lofty and noble aspirations.
Happy is he who enriches the lives of others.
Happy is he who allows others to live in peace.
Happy is he who makes this world a better place to live in.
Happy is he whose work, chores and daily tasks are labours of love.
Happy is he who loves love.

KIN HUBBARD

There's no secret to success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

THOMAS HARDY

A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to

JANE AUSTEN

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Taoist Saying

You can conquer others with power,
But it takes true strength to conquer yourself.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself

A.A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them

LAMA SURYA DAS

Truth is everywhere.
It knows no religious, cultural, temporal or ethnic bounds.
Truth is the perfect circle.
Its centre is everywhere.
Its circumference stretches into infinite space.

MALCOLM FORBES

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

JOHN'S MIXED BAG
a personal choice
http://johnsmixedbag.blogspot.com

VINCE LOMBARDI

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

BLOG STATS
During the month of June my most popular blogs were:-
The Pre-Raphaelites - 808 hits
Wise Men Say - 617 hits
John's Gallery - 237 Hits

ANON

The hardest thing in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them

HUMPHRY DAVY

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.

RUMER GODDEN

There is an Indian belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms - a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.

BERNARD MELTZER

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Chinese Saying

A rumour goes in one ear and out many mouths.


JOHN'S MIXED BAG
a personal choice
http://johnsmixedbag.blogspot.com

WINSTON CHURCHILL

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

ENID BLYTON

Growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

DAVID RUSSELL

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

From the Dhammapada

Hold not a sin of little worth, thinking "This is little to me."
The falling drops of water will in time fill a water-jar.
Even so the foolish man becomes full of evil, although he gather it little by little.

Hold not a deed of little worth, thinking "This is little to me."
The falling drops of water will in time fill a water-jar.
Even so the wise man becomes full of good, although he gather it little by little.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The happiest conversation is where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

CROWFOOT

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
And loses itself in the sunset.

[Crowfoot (1830-1890) Chief of the Blackfoot people, Canada]

FRIDTJOF NANSEN

The difficult is what takes a little time.
The impossible is what takes a little longer.

ANON

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.

GEORGE ELIOT

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

IVAN TURGENEV

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.

JOHN'S MIXED BAG
http://johnsmixedbag.blogspot.com
Mondays and Thursdays

MAHATMA GANDHI

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

ROBERT BENCHLEY

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

ANON

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.

NEW - John's Mixed Bag - NEW
(a personal choice)
http://johnsmixedbag.blogspot.com

VICTOR HUGO

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

PLATO

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

WILLIAM BLAKE

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

HENRY FORD

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

BLOG STATISTICS

During the Month of May my most popular blogs were:-

My Own Selection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings - 1,245 hits

Wise Men Say - 615 hits

John's Gallery - 455 hits

WILLIAM LOUDEN

To be sure of good health - eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.