Top Five Quotes on THIS Day (I reserve the right to change my mind at any time, on any day.)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 
Number 5
"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until after their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire." - Plato
Number 4
"Should I buy more stuff or leave more money to the kids? Ha! I crack myself up!" - Shoebox greeting card received from my good pal Posh Deeva on my 42nd birthday.
"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of." - Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa, "A Gold Slipper" (1920)
Number 2
"Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand — a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods — or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values." - Willa Cather, "On the Art of Fiction" (1920)
AND... Number 1
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." - Blaise Pascal (BTW, that's French which I cannot read, speak or pronounce - Posh Deeva will be able to read it just fine.)
- Literally: I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
- Translation: I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
This quote is a favorite of many writers (not that I'm a writer) and is actually one that is mistakenly credited to Mark Twain. His version goes something like this, "I'm sorry this letter is so long, but I did not have time to make it shorter." Chris and I frequently condense it to, "I didn't have time to make this short."
The end. Bye.
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