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   13/05/2008, 12:31
Jacqui      Too            is not online. Last active: 30/09/2008 19:24:17 Jacqui Too



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 Clair wrote:
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OH, to be in England now that April ’s there

Home Thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning (1812–89)

I know its June, But it is lovely here I Love spring Big Smile [:D]


May even... Big Smile [:D]

Just spotted that one while you were postingWoot! [:-))]


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   13/05/2008, 12:35
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

~ Gilda Radner
the real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, and blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday
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   13/05/2008, 12:37
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

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   13/05/2008, 15:06
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The great cellist Pablo Casals, when aged just over 80 proposed marriage to an attractive 20 year old pupil. She accepted and on his wedding day his doctors advised - "but Mr Casals if you try and consummate this marriage the consequences could be fatal".

To which he replied

"well if she dies ... she dies!" 


It's not dark yet ......but it's getting there.
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   13/05/2008, 16:20
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 now just john wrote:
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

~ Gilda Radner

Very poignant, John.

Nous ne pouvons pas tous faire de grandes choses, mais nous pouvons faire des petites choses avec beaucoup d'amour.

We cannot all do big things but we can do little things with a lot of love.

Mother Teresa in 1979, Nobel Peace Prize


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   13/05/2008, 20:05
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."

P.J. O'Rourke

 


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   13/05/2008, 22:01
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 Christine Animal wrote:

Here's one for Frenchie.

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."   Paul McCartney

 

Merci Christine ! Wink [;-)]

"Les talons hauts ont été inventés par une femme qu'on embrassait toujours sur le front."
Marcel Achard

( High heeled shoes were invented by a woman who was always kissed on the forehead " ) Smile [:)]


In the waters of life, you row your boat into the strongest tide that you can find.........

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   15/05/2008, 10:26
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Raining againSad [:(] no doubt Krusty would like this one, Cool [8-|]

May was full of promises
But she didn't keep 'em quickly enough for some
And the crowd of doubtin' Thomases
Was predictin' that the summer'd never come
But it's comin' by gum, you can hear it come,
You can hear it in the trees, You can smell it in the breeze
Look around! Look around! Look around!                        -   Carousel - Oscar Hammerstein

 


the real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, and blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday
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   15/05/2008, 11:11
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Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.  Abrahalm Lincoln

 


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