I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
Venerable Bede
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
Venerable Bede
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
Venerable Bede
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball
I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
Lucille Ball
I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball
I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
Lucille Ball
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
Lucille Ball
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey
Music tells no truths.
Philip James Bailey
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Philip James Bailey
What men call accident is God’s own part.
Philip James Bailey
Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
Philip James Bailey
Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey
Imagination is the air of mind.
Philip James Bailey
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey
Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Philip James Bailey
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey
The September flower is the aster which means love, faith and wisdom and symbolizes valor. Not only this, there is also a hidden message behind this flower and that is take care of yourself for me.
The colors the aster is available in are:
* White
* Pink
* Lilac
* Mauve
* Red
Information about the Aster
* The September birth flower is also called stalwarts and the September flower.
* The name aster is derived from the Greek word for star and refers to the shape of the head of the flower.
* The definition of the flower is any of the various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus aster which has showy daisy-like flowers.
QUOTES
I would like to thank god for bringing you to life. and i would like to ask god to give you as much years to live as he can
I’m so blessed 2 have a friend like u this comes with many loving thoughts & warm wishes i send 2o may ur day be filled with laughter on this ur special day & may the finest things in life always come ur way happy birthday!
Am so glad to have a friend like u happy birthday
May u achieve sucess bryong its bounds, may this year god showers u with all his blessings & love.. live a long life, happy birthday…
It must be a rainy day when u were born cuz the sky was crying for losing one of its precious stars
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been this city’s greatest strength.
Jane Byrne
In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
Jane Byrne
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
Jane Byrne
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities – without outside interference.
Jane Byrne
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.
Jane Byrne
But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.
Jane Byrne
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
Jane Byrne
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
Jane Byrne
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it’s a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Jane Byrne
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Jane Byrne
I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.
Jane Byrne
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Jane Byrne
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
Jane Byrne
Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
Roger Ascham
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
Roger Ascham
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
Roger Ascham
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
In our fathers’ time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Roger Ascham
Let the master praise him, and say, “Here ye do well.” For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won’t be true in the future.
Roone Arledge
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don’t you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
Roone Arledge
People also don’t care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.
Roone Arledge
But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we’re doing something that people are really interested in.
Roone Arledge
I don’t think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
Roone Arledge
Most of what we report from Congress they don’t care about unless it affects them directly.
Roone Arledge
One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News’ ratings go up is because people who don’t normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don’t watch network news or fight over the people who do?
Roone Arledge
People essentially like local news better than network news.
Roone Arledge
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don’t recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don’t then you’re a fool and you should be in a different business.
Roone Arledge
But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there’s an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I’m basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.
Roone Arledge
I don’t expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.
Roone Arledge
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Aristophanes
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
Aristophanes
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don’t believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
Aristophanes
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes
Evil events from evil causes spring.
Aristophanes
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophanes
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Aristophanes
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Aristophanes
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Aristophanes
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Aristophanes
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can’t live with them, or without them.
Aristophanes
June 20th, 2011 
