QUOTE for August 2007

"I see people using the weather as a pretext for striking up acquaintance. Women begin to talk among themselves and there is sudden intimacy. The men have also formed a group...But nobody pays any attention to me. I sit alone, a victim of my own isolation, shyness, and alienation from the world. I begin to read a book, and this provokes hostility, for reading a book at such a time seems like a challenge and an insult to the other passengers"






PAST WINNERS
QUOTE and MONTH OF
ANSWER
WINNER

June 2007
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony; then you will gain peace.

Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Persian poet


Carolyn Hugley
Tyler, Texas

April 2007
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

David Foster Wallace


Eileen Corbeil
Easthampton, MA



March 2007
In all affairs - love, religion, politics or business - it's a healthy idea to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell


No Guesses

February 2007
The reading of works of fiction is one of the most pernicious habits to which a young lady can become devoted. When the habit is once thoroughly fixed, it becomes as inveterate as the use of liquor or opium.... We particularly desire to go on record as believing firmly that the practice of novel reading is one of the greatest causes of uterine disease in young women.

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Ladies Guide in Health and Disease



Robert Wilms
South Pasadena, Ca

January 2007
The Creation of a Thousand Forests is in One Acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



David Sincavage
Pennsylvania
December 2006
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Leo Tolstoy



Jennifer Dittmann
Dekalb, Illinois


October 23, 2006
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson,
Silent Spring



No correct guesses
August 28, 2006
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maughan

Tim Mace
August 7, 2006
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

LaRue Foster
Deltona, Florida
July 10, 2006
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Edith Wharton
from The House of Mirth

Chris Chambers
Lisburn, N.Ireland
June 26, 2006
Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking Glass
Lidia Llano
Miami, FL
April 24, 2006
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenel
Tris Mast
Laguna Niguel, CA
March 27, 2006
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Nadine Gordimer
Ang DePriest
Franklin, TN
March 3, 2006
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
J C Dorland
Toronto, Canada
February 27, 2006
Awake! My whirling hands stay at the the noon,
Each cell within my body holds a heart,
And all my hearts in unison strike twelve.

Stanley Kunitz
from The Science of the Night

J C Dorland
Toronto, Canada
January 23, 2006
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Benjamin Franklin

J C Dorland
Toronto, Canada
December 26, 2005
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, When just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lavinia
Utah
December 12, 2005
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

Jane Austen
from Pride and Prejudice

Charles Berkley
St. Louis, Missouri
November 14, 2005
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche
from Beyond Good and Evil

Anonymous
Western Massachusetts
November 7, 2005
You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

Joseph Heller
from
Catch-22

Roger Noll
Beaver Dam, WI
September 26, 2005
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee (Atticus)
from
To Kill a Mockingbird

Anonymous
September 19, 2005
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine deSaint-Exupery
from
The Little Prince

Anonymous
Lynnwood, WA
September 12, 2005
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Ray Bradbury
from
Fahrenheit 451

Ryan Lee Price
Corona, CA
August 15, 2005
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible; without it, nothing.

Arnold Bennett
from
How to Live on 24-hours a Day

Stacey
Dallas, TX
August 1, 2005
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
Bill Hicks
anonymous
July 18, 2005
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
George Eliot
from Daniel Deranda
Ryan Lee Price
Corona, CA
July 11, 2005
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine
from Progress on the Rubicon
Ryan Lee Price
Corona, CA
July 4, 2005
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem
Booker T. Washington
Tris Mast
Laguna Niguel, CA
April 27 to May 3, 2005
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Samuel Butler
from The Way of All Flesh
Joy Master
Boulder, CO
April 20 to April 26, 2005
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood
No One Guessed
March 30 to April 19, 2005
The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman
No One Guessed
March 23 to Mar 29, 2005
There are two ways of spreading light: to be
  The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton
Melinda Conley
Norfolk, VA
March 9 to Mar 22, 2005
Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them.

Goethe
No One Guessed
March 2 to Mar 8, 2005
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allen Poe from Eleonora
Shazli
New York, NY
Feb 16 to March 1, 2005
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Shakespeare
Bobby R. Presley
Pittsburg, TX
Feb 9 to Feb 15 , 2005
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
e.e. cummings
No One Guessed!
Feb 2 to Feb 8 , 2005
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
No One Guessed!
Jan 26 to Feb 1, 2005
If you want a happy ending, that depends,
of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
Stacy
Jan 19 to Jan 25, 2005
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
George Bernard Shaw
from
Pygmalion
Kevin M. Burns
Virginia Beach, VA
Jan 12 to Jan 18 , 2005
No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson
No One Guessed!
Jan 4 to Jan 11, 2005
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
No One Guessed!
Dec 8 to Dec 29, 2004
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Roger Bacon
No One Guessed!
Dec 1 to Dec 7, 2004
To acquire the habit of reading
is to construct for yourself a refuge
from almost all of the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Christopher Chambers
N. Ireland
Nov 23 to Nov 30, 2004
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
Christopher Chambers
N. Ireland
Nov 17 to Nov 23, 2004
My library was dukedom large enough.
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Christopher Chambers
N. Ireland
Nov 10 to Nov 16, 2004
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
Plato
John Harris-Lanning
Great Falls, Montana
Nov 3 to Nov 9, 2004
If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
Ernest Hemingway
NO ONE GUESSED!
Oct 27 to Nov 2, 2004
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!
...To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Hermann Melville
from
Moby Dick
NO ONE GUESSED!
Oct 13 to Oct 26, 2004
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allen Poe
from
Masque of the Red Death
Scott D. Winter
Franklin, Tennessee
Oct 6 to Oct 12, 2004
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Frank Baum
from
The Wizard of Oz
Scott D. Winter
Franklin, Tennessee
Sept 29 to Oct 5, 2004
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. little colder
Ray Bradbury
No One Guessed!
Sept 22 to Sept 28, 2004
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Stephen Neal
Sept 15 to Sept 21, 2004
It's a fool who plays it cool
by making the world a
little colder
The Beatles
from
Hey Jude
No One Guessed!
Sept 1 to Sept 14, 2004
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg
No One Guessed!
August 18 to August 31, 2004
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
No One Guessed!

August 4 to August 17
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance."
James Joyce, Ulysess

David Cohen
Worcester, MA

July 28 to August 3, 2004
A horse is a horse, of course of course, And nobody can talk to a horse, of course...
Mr Ed. Theme Song
from
1960's television show
Kristin Johnson
July 21 to July 27, 2004
Call me Ishmael.
Hermann Melville
from
Moby Dick
Dan Storey
Lynnwood, Washington
July 14 to July 20, 2004
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
J.D. Salinger
No One Guessed!
June 29 to July 13, 2004
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought aftereven if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
Henry Miller
from

The Tropic Of Cancer
No One Guessed!
June 22 to June 28, 2004
What light through yonder window breaks?
William Shakespeare
from
Romeo and Juliet
No One Guessed!
June 13 to June 21, 2004
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions -- he had money, too.
Margaret Thatcher
No One Guessed!
June 5 to June 12, 2004
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats
No One Guessed!
May 24 to June 4 , 2004
Well I know you are brave, and I am far weaker. True - but all lies in the lap of the great gods. Weaker I am, but I still might take your life With one hurl of a spear - my weapon can cut too, Long before now its point has found its mark!
Homer
The Iliad
James Laff
Denver, Colorado
May 12 to May 24 , 2004
I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound
F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
No One Guessed!
May 5 to May 11, 2004
He seemed no more to be continually regarding the proportions of his personal prowess. He was not furious at small words that pricked his conceits. He was no more a loud young soldier. There was about him now a fine reliance. He showed a quiet belief in his purposes and his abilities. And this inward confidence evidently enabled him to be indifferent to little words of other men aimed at him.
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Anonymous
April 28 to May 4, 2004
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places,where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.....Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlett Letter
Eduardo de Lima Pereira
Belo Horizonte MG Brazil
April 21 to April 27, 2004
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
Casey Stengal
NO ONE GUESSED
April 14 to April 20, 2004
Beauty is a simple passion,
but, oh my friends, in the end
you will dance
the fire dance in iron shoes.
Anne Sexton
NO ONE GUESSED
April 7 to April 13, 2004
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Milan Kundera
NO ONE GUESSED
March 31 to April 6, 2004
Been in this game (baseball) one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
Casey Stengel
Eduardo d Lima Pereira
Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
March 24 to March 30, 2004
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
Charles Schulz
from
Charlie Brown
Stacy Gossett
Texas
March 17 to March 23, 2004
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.
Anne Frank
from
The Diary of Anne Frank
Eduardo d Lima Pereira
Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
March 10 to March 16, 2004
I went to the woods, because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry Thoreau
from
Walden Pond
Richard Rees
Westfield, MA
March 3 to March 9, 2004
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
No One Guessed
Feb 25 to March 2, 2004
March is the month God created
to show people who don't drink
what a hangover is like.
Garrison Keillor
No One Guessed
Feb 11 to Feb 24, 2004
The earth keeps some vibration going,
There in your heart, and that is you.
And if people find you can fiddle,
Why fiddle you must, for all your life.
Edgar Lee Masters
The Fiddler in Spoon River Anthology
No One Guessed
Jan 29 to Feb 3, 2004
For three years he said that:
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
William Goldman
from The Princess Bride
Angela Seres DePriest
Nashville, TN
Jan 29 to Feb 3, 2004
Once I had brains, and a heart also,
so having tried them both,
I should much rather have a heart.
Frank Baum
The Tin Man
from The Wizard of Oz
Angela Seres DePriest
Nashville, TN
Jan 21 to Jan 28, 2004
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.
Henry Monro
Milk For The Cat
No One Guessed
Jan 14 to Jan 20, 2004
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
Claire Card
Santa Rosa, CA
Jan 7 to Jan 13, 2004
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
NO ONE GUESSED!
Dec 24, 2003 to Jan 6, 2004
Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
J.R.R. Tolkien
from Lord Of The Rings, Book 1
Gary W. Miller
Stratford, CT
Dec 10 to Dec 23, 2003
Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Sir Walter Scott
No One Guessed!
Dec 3 to Dec 9, 2003
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of
us,and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!".
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Anonymous
Nov 26 to Dec 2, 2003
Adults are obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss
No One Guessed!
Nov 19 to Nov 25, 2003
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
No One Guessed!
Nov 12 to Nov 18, 2003
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
No One Guessed!
Nov 5 to Nov 11, 2003
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell
No One Guessed!
Oct 28 to Nov 4, 2003
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Tom Waits
Anonymous
Oct 21 to Oct 27, 2003
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anonymous
Oct 14 to Oct 20, 2003
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Stanislaw J. Lec
Nico Harlan
Oct 7 to Oct 13, 2003
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM.
Lyndon B. Johnson
No One Guessed
Sept 30 to Oct 6, 2003
If nominated, I will not run;
if elected, I will not serve.
General William T. Sherman
Republican Convention-1884
Brian March
Hollywood, FL
Sept 16 to Sept 29, 2003
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it,and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
MV
Cleveland, Ohio
Sept 10 to Sept 16, 2003
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Benjamin Disraeli
Alejandra Ramos
Washington, DC
Sept 3 to Sept 9, 2003
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Lord Macaulay
On Niccolo dei Machiavelli
Brett Luna
Anchorage, Alaska
August 26 to Sept 2, 2003
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad
Roger Noll
Beaver Dam, WI
August 19 to August 25, 2003
;Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
No One Guessed
August 12 to August 18, 2003
;I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison
Jay Swofford
August 5 to August 11, 2003
Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power
to magnify themselves, multiply the ways in which they exist,
to make their life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
Angela Seres
Nashville, Tennessee
July 16 to July 21, 2003
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
Alexander the Great
Anonymous
July 22 to August 4, 2003
Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson
Anonymous (C.G.)
July 16 to July 21, 2003
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
Alexander the Great
Anonymous
July 9 to July 15, 2003
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
NO ONE GUESSED!
July 2 to July 8, 2003
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Robert Browning
NO ONE GUESSED!
June 25 to July 1, 2003
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Leon Uris
from
Redemption
Bobby R. Presley
Pittsburg,Texas
June 18 to June 24, 2003
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D Salinger
NO ONE GUESSED!
June 11 to June 17, 2003
Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher
Brian March
Hollywood, FL
June 4 to June 10, 2003
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Anonymous
New York, NY
May 28 to June 3, 2003
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickenson
NO ONE GUESSED!
May 21 to May 27, 2003
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
NO ONE GUESSED!
May 14 to May 20, 2003
I don't know. I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
Jack Kerouac
NO ONE GUESSED!
May 7 to May 13, 2003
The best minds are not in government.
If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
NO ONE GUESSED!
April 30 to May 6, 2003
Hasten slowly and you shall soon arrive.
Milarepa
NO ONE GUESSED!
April 23 to April 29, 2003
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses,
then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
Michael Cirivello
Santa Rosa, CA
April 16 to April 22, 2003
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
from

Casey at the Bat
Brian March
Hollywood, FL
April 9 to April 15, 2003
I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
NO ONE GUESSED!
April 2 to April 8, 2003
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
NO ONE GUESSED!
March 26 to April 1, 2003
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
NO ONE GUESSED!
March 19 to March 25, 2003
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadworth Longfellow
Maryanne Post

Friendswood, Texas
March 12 to March 18, 2003
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
Jake Preston

Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
March 5 to March 11, 2003
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
NO ONE GUESSED!
Feb 26 to March 4, 2003
Improvisation is the only artform in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. It is the hidden things, the subconscious that lets you know
you feel this, you play this.
Ornette Coleman
Sara Holt
Southampton, MA
Feb 19 to Feb 25, 2003
The most exciting phrase to hear in science,the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Isaac Asimov
Anonymous
Amherst, MA
Feb 12 to Feb 18, 2003
Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it .
John Wayne
Jennifer Wilson
Tempe Arizona
Feb 5 to Feb 11, 2003
When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.' .
Pablo Picasso
C Burch
Jan 29 to Feb 4, 2003
Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires use astrology.
J.P. Morgan
NO ONE GUESSED!
Jan 22 to Jan 28, 2003
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don't criticize what you can't understand. You're sons and your daughters are beyond you're command. You're old road is rapidly aging, please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand.
Bob Dylan
Gladys Santillanes
Los Angeles, California
Jan 16 to Jan 21, 2003
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Frederick Nietzsche
Mette Olesen
Denmark
Jan 8 to Jan 15, 2003
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham
NO ONE GUESSED!
Jan 1 to Jan 7, 2003
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
Sam
Los Angeles, CA
Dec 18 to Dec 31, 2002
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
"It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
"We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner..
Louisa May Alcott

from
Little Women
Brian March
Hollywood, FL
Dec. 11 to Dec. 17, 2002
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Gerald Barzan
Fred Wilhelms
Dec. 4 to Dec. 10, 2002
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn andweathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
Ernest Hemingway
NO ONE GUESSED!
Nov. 27 to Dec 3, 2002
Got no check books, got no banks.
Still I'd like to express my thanks
- I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
Irving Berlin
Teri Wilhelms
Nashville, Tennessee
Nov. 20 to Nov. 26, 2002
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. .
Samuel Butler
NO ONE GUESSED!
Nov. 13 to Nov. 19, 2002
I have heard the hysterical women say
That they are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay.
For everybody knows or else should know
That if nothing drastic is done
Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out...
W.B. Yeats
NO ONE GUESSED!
Nov. 6 to Nov. 12, 2002
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
NO ONE GUESSED!
Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, 2002
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Brenda Lerner
Montrose, Alabama
Oct. 23 to Oct. 29, 2002
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends.
Orson Welles
Michael Aurzada
Austin, Texas
Oct. 16 to Oct. 22, 2002
Truth is love and love is truth,
Either neither in good sooth:
Truth is truth and love is love,
Give us grace to taste thereof,
But if truth offend my sweet
Then I will have none of it,
And if love offend the other,
Farewell truth, I will not bother.
A. E. Coppard
NO ONE GUESSED!
October 9 to October 15, 2002
One morning in spring
We marched from Devizes
All shapes and sizes
Like beads in a string,
But yet with a swing
We trod the bluemetal
And full of high fettle
We started to sing.
John Manifold


A Fife Tune

Josef Finsel
Cincinnati, OH
October 2 to October 8, 2002
A book should serve as the ax
for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
Anonymous
Sept 25 to October 1, 2002
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
Ogden Nash
Anonymous
Sept 18 to Sept 24, 2002
Another such victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus, Greek King
(expression: Pyrrhic Victory)
NO ONE GUESSED!
Sept 11 to Sept 17, 2002
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
Thomas Paine
Brian March
Hollywood, FL
Sept 4 to Sept 10, 2002
Income tax has made liars out
of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers
Craig Laird
Front Royal, VA
August 28 to Sept 3, 2002
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
Brian March
Hollywood, FL
August 14 to August 27, 2002
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
David
Derry, Ireland
August 7 to August 13, 2002
Writing is nothing but a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
Josef Finsel
Cincinnati, OH
July 31 to August 6, 2002
How did it get so late so soon?
Its night before its afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss
David Rusoff
Coral Springs, FL
July 23 to July 30, 2002
Ninety percent of the politicians
Give the other ten percent a bad name
Henry Kissinger
NO ONE GUESSSED!
July 16 to July 22, 2002
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Times is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
Lidia Llano
Miami, FL.
July 9 to July 15, 2002
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. .
Rachel Carson
from

Silent Spring
Brian March
Hollywood, FL.
June 25 to July 8, 2002
I have never smuggled anything in my life.
Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt
on approaching a customs barrier? .
John Steinbeck
NO ONE GUESSED!
June 18 to June 24
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard wheredark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
Katherine Mansfield
Rodolfo Ruiz

Monterrey, Mexico
June 11 to June 17
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago...Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
Carl Jung
Anonymous
June 5 to June 11
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley
from
The Doors Of Perception
William McNicol

Dollar, Scotland
May 29 to June 4
Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality .
Emily Dickenson
Brian March
Hollywood, FL.
May 22 to May 28, 2002
The first lie we tell ourselves is when we say ' I ' .
P.D. Ouspensky
NO ONE GUESSED!
May 15 to May 21, 2002
It's a damn poor mind that can only think
of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
Anonymous
Tampa, Florida
May 8 to May 14, 2002
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
NO ONE GUESSED!
May 1 to May 7, 2002
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport;whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Hermann Melville
NO ONE GUESSED!
April 24 to April 30, 2002
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand
NO ONE GUESSED!
April 17 to April 23, 2002
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams
Anonymous
April 10 to April 16, 2002
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent
and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Anonymous
April 3 to April 9, 2002
Fame is only good for one thing
-they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote
NO ONE GUESSED!
March 20 to April 2, 2002
Four hostile newspapers are more
to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
NO ONE GUESSED!
March 13 to March 19, 2002
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
NO ONE GUESSED!
March 6 to March 12, 2002
There is only one difference
between a madman and me.
I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
Anonymous
Cambridge, Massachusetts
February 27 to March 5, 2002
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.
Langston Hughes
Anonymous
February 19 to Feburary 26, 2002
The whole earth from a great distance
means less than one long look
into a pair of human eyes.
Carson McCullers
David Lee
Cleveland, Ohio
February 12 to Feburary 18, 2002
If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by the fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
Shel Silverstein
Rachel Bruce
Nashville, Tennesee
February 5 to Feburary 11, 2002
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
Rachel Bruce
Nashville, Tennesee
January 29 to Feburary 4, 2002
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
G. K. Chesterson
NO ONE GUESSED!
January 22 to January 28, 2002
Do not trust the horse, Trojans!
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks,
even though they bring gifts.
Virgil
from
The Aenead
NO ONE GUESSED!
January 16 to January 22, 2002
Try not to have a good time...
This is supposed to be educational.
Charles Scultz
from
Peanuts
Dixie C. Gallaher
Lexington, Kentucky
January 9 to January 15, 2002
I have just read the immortal poems of the ages and come away dull. I don't know who's at fault; maybe it's the weather, but I sense a lot of pretense and poesy footwork.
Charles Bukowski
Arthur Robinson
LaGrange, Georgia
January 4 to January 8, 2002
"If A equals success,
then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z,
X is work. Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
Brian March
December 18 to January 3, 2002
"I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
Charles Dickens
from
A Christmas Carol
Brian March
December 11 to December 17, 2001
"Easy reading is damned hard writing. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
NO ONE GUESSED
December 4 to December 10, 2001
"All that is gold does not glitter;
not all those who wander are lost."
J.R. Tolkien
from
The Fellowship of The Ring
NO ONE GUESSED
November 27 to December 3, 2001
"All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
from
Renascence
Teri Wilhelms
Nashville, TN
November 20 to November 26, 2001
"He's so good he's almost corny, in fact. I don't know exactly what I mean by that, but I mean it."
J.D. Salinger
from
Catcher in the Rye
NO ONE GUESSED!
November 13 to November 19,2001
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold!"
W.B Yeats
NO ONE GUESSED!
November 6 to November 12, 2001
"The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!."
William Wordsworth
Jason J.
Seattle, WA.
October 31 to November 5, 2001
"In The Country of the Blind
the One-eyed Man is King."
H.G. Wells
NO ONE GUESSED!
October 23 to October 30, 2001
"I am a galley slave to pen and ink."
Honore de Balzac
Angela Seres
Franklin, Tennessee
October 16 to October 22, 2001
"If I have seen farther than others,
it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newtown
NO ONE GUESSED!
October 9 to October 15, 2001
"The heart has its reasons
which reason knows nothing of."
Blaise Pascal
Fred Wilhelm
Nashville, Tennessee
October 2 to October 8, 2001
"Slow and steady wins the race."
Aesop
from
The Tortoise and The Hare
Karen Gleiter
Chapel Hill, NC
September 25 to September 31, 2001
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. "
Somerset Maugham
NO ONE GUESSED!
September 18 to September 24, 2001
"The best doctors in the world are
Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. "
Jonathan Swift
NO ONE GUESSED!
September 11 to September 17, 2001
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
NO ONE GUESSED!
September 5 to September 10, 2001
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
Ernest Hemingway
NO ONE GUESSED!
August 14 to September 5, 2001
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
Abraham Lincoln
Teri Wilhelms
Nashville, TN
August 8 to August 14, 2001
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
Jane Austin
Roger Noll
Beaver Dam, WI
August 1 to August 7, 2001
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde
from
A Woman of No Importance
Christian Kopff
Boulder, CO.
July 24 to July 31
"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes to Watson, in The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Brian March
July 15 to July 23, 2001
"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."
Van Gogh
None
July 9 to July 15, 2001
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato
from
The Republic, Book VII
Angela Seres
Henderson and Franklin, TN
July 3 to July 9, 2001
"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."
Robert A. Heinlein
from
Stranger in a Strange Land
Anonymous
June 26 to July 3, 2001
"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego."
Jack London
from
The Call of the Wild
NONE
June 19 to June 26, 2001
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, that I have ever known."
Charles Dickens
from
A Tale of Two Cities
Carolyn Rylander
Titusville, Fl
June 12 to June 19, 2001
"All in the valley of death
Rode the six hundred."
A.L. Tennyson
from
The Charge of the Light Brigade
NONE
June 5 to June 12, 2001
"Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink."
Samuel Coleridge
from
The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner
Barbara Syme
May 29 to June 5, 2001
"Don't go into Mr McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs McGregor."
Beatrix Potter
Brian March
May 21 to May 28, 2001
"I do not know which to prefer,
The Beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of unnuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. "
Wallace Stevens
from
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Quiz Kid Patrick Adie
May 15 to May 21, 2001
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
T.S. Eliot
from
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Angela Seres
Hendersonville, TN
May 7 to May 15, 2001
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
Dylan Thomas
Quiz Kid Patrick Adie
April 31 to May 7, 2001
"I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree."
Joyce Kilmer
from
Trees
TIE:
Anonymous
and
Brian March,
Hollywood, FL
April 24 to April 30, 2001
"Never lend books for no one ever returns them;
the only books that I have in my library
are other books that folks have lent me."
Anatole France
No One Guessed
April 18 to April 23, 2001
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy,
"and the day after that, and the next 30 years?"
F.Scott Fitzgerald
from
"The Great Gatsby"
Brian F March
Hollywood, Florida
April 10 to April 17, 2001
"I have always thought of a dog lover
as a dog that was in love with another dog."
James Thurber
No One Guessed
April 3 to April 9, 2001
"All animals are equal,
but some animals
are more equal than others. "
George Orwell
from
Animal Farm
Maribeth Brewer
Columbus, Ohio
March 27 to April 2, 2001
"If only God would give me some clear sign!
Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. "
Woody Allen
Anonymous
March 20 to March 26, 2001
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you
Weep, and you weep alone. "
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Anonymous
March 13 to March 19, 2001
"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be."
Robert Browning
No One Guessed
March 6 to March 12, 2001
"The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
Robert Frost
from
Dust of Snow
Anonymous
February 27 to March 5, 2001
"All abandon hope, ye who enter here!"
Dante
Margaret Grenier
Syracuse, New York
February 20 to February 26, 2001
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
Norman Douglas
from
South Wind (1917)
No One Guessed
February 13 to February 19, 2001
"Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum."
Robert Louis Stevenson
from
Treasure Island
No One Guessed
Feburary 6 to February 12, 2001
"Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time."
Lewis Caroll
No One Guessed
January 30 to February 5, 2001
"I loaf and invite my soul."
Walt Whitman
No One Guessed
January 23 to January 29, 2001
"Love is blind."
William Shakespeare
from
"The Merchant of Venice"
or, second answer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Brian F March
Hollywood, Florida
January 16 to January 22, 2001
"Handsome is that handsome does."
Oliver Goldsmith
from
"Vicar of Wakesfield"
Elizabeth Santarsiero
Runnemede, New Jersey
January 9 to January 15, 2001
"I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster that I had created."
Mary Shelley
from
"Frankenstein
Brian F March
Hollywood, Florida
January 2 to January 8, 2001
"my father moved through dooms of
love.
through sames of am through haves of
give.
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of
height."
e. e. cummings
None
December 18, 2000 to January 1, 2001
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"
Clement Clarke Moore
Brian F March
Hollywood, Florida
December 11 to December 18, 2000
"I understand a fury in your words, but not the words."
William Shakespeare
spoken by
Desdemona in "Othello"
Teri Wilhelms
Nashville, TN.
December 4 to December 10, 2000
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read."
Harper Lee
from
"To Kill A Mockingbird"
Daniel A. Mullin
Pittsfield, MA.
November 28 to December 4, 2000
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life
from the reading of a book."
Henry David Thoreau
No One Guessed
November 21 to November 27, 2000
"Classic - a book people praise and don't read."
Mark Twain
Thomas McCullough
November 21 to November 27, 2000
"They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters."
Thomas More
from
"Utopia"
Miriam Stewart
Columbus, OH
November 7 to November 13, 2000
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

TWO RIGHT ANSWERS!
Alexander Pope

Johnny Mercer

Anonymous

Miriam Stewart
Columbus, OH
October 31 to November 6, 2000
"It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln
Mathew Enright
Littleton, CO
October 24 to October 31, 2000
"Conscience: The inner voice that warns us that someone may be watching."
H.L. Mencken
None
October 17 to October 24, 2000
"It is not truth that makes man great,
but man who makes truth great."
Confucius
None
October 10 to October 17, 2000
"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."
Grandma Moses
None
October 3 to October 10, 2000
"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.."
Charles Schulz
None
September 26 to October 3, 2000
"Marriage is a great institution,
but I'm not ready for an institution."
Mae West
None
September 20 to September 26, 2000
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce
None
September 13 to September 19, 2000
"I am a bear of very little brain,
and long words bother me."
Winnie the Pooh
created by
A. A. Milne
Anonymous
September 5 to September 12, 2000
"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else."
Yogi Berra
Eddie Buonopane
Coral Springs, Florida
September 1 to September 4, 2000
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep"
Scott Adams
Miriam Stewart
Columbus, OH
August 11 to August 24, 2000
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
Walt Disney
Anonymous
August 4 to August 10, 2000
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
Aristotle
Lisa
Canton, MI.
July 27 to August 3, 2000
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
NONE
July 21 to July 27, 2000
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
Randy Tyler
Marion, IA
July 14 to July 20, 2000
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Harry S. Truman
Michael Colacarro
July 6 to July 13, 2000
"Don't interfere with the Bee when it is making honey, but