Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight Eisenhower

Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it--all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.
Peace Pilgrim

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
E.B. White

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
Henry David Thoreau

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck

        About 4 years ago I adopted a little dog from the dog pound.   He has the body and color markings of a Beagle, but his ears are small and drop down exactly like a Terrier.  I call him my beagle/terrier.  Before this we had a pure bred Beagle named Mossypooh.  We decided to call this one Mossy2, meaning the 2nd Mossy. 
        In his first week here, I lay a towel on the floor to the right of my desk.  I told him, "Mossy2, this is your spot." Later I decided to put a bookcase there and put his towel elsewhere in the room near the desk.  He would not get on it.  He would get outside it and stare at "his spot".  Finally I gave in and put a pillow on the bottom shelf of the book case.   Immediately he went to it, curled up, looked up and said.."thanks."   To this day, this is his spot.
       When I finally go to bed, he climbs some stairs I made for him and gets on my bed.  However, until that time, after 6pm he goes to his spot and rests.  I suppose we all like to have a little place on earth that we can sort of regard as our own.

It [the Declaration of Independence] is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God, it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and independence forever.
Daniel Webster

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
Mahatma Gandhi

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson

The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
John Newton

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Michel de Montaigne

         All Free ISP is a site which might prove to be useful for you.  Many people still use dialup Internet hosting.  Occasionally another family member might want to be able to access the Internet but would do it so seldom that it makes no sense to pay for a monthly charge.  Of course, you could set up a wireless network, but this way you won't need to bother.  ISP stands for Internet Service Provider and most of these only allow 10 hours of usage a month.  If this would be enough, then check out this site.  Once you enter your telephone 3 digit area code, you are presented with your options.  Just go to: All Free ISP - Cheap - Free Internet Access Service Provider Database

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Saint Augustine

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
Albert Einstein

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Werner Erhard

       A large flywheel company, feeling it was time for a shakeup, hired a new CEO. This new boss was determined to rid the company of all slackers. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO noticed a guy leaning on a wall.  The room was full of workers and he wanted to let them know that he meant business!

      The new CEO walked up to the guy leaning against the wall and asked, "How much money do you make a week?"

      A little surprised, the young fellow looked at him and replied, "I make $300.00 a week. Why?"

      The CEO then handed the guy $1,200 in cash and screamed, "Here's four weeks' pay, now GET OUT and don't come back."  Feeling pretty good about himself, the CEO looked around the room and asked, "Does anyone want to tell me what that 
goof-off did here?"

     From across the room came a voice, "Pizza delivery guy from Domino's."

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Andre Gide

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine

We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.
Daniel Webster (speech in Senate, 1833)

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.
Brendan Francis

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
William Stafford

These are 2 pieces of valuable advice for anyone building or buying a home
:

1) Make certain that the top of the chimney has a small mesh expanded metal grating on top of the chimney!!!
        We didn't know this, and birds and squirrels would end up in our fireplace insert.  I thought that if something fell in, that it could just crawl out, but I was wrong.   The sides of the ceramic sections inside the chimney are quite slick and if a bird or squirrel falls down, its trapped for life.  Apparently some squirrels had this happen to them, and they died in the space between the fireplace insert and the bottom part of the fireplace.  Afterwards, this produced quite an odor, but worse yet, the fumes from the carcass caused me to have the worse cough of my life.  I ended up having an MRI, etc. and only when I had a chimney sweep remove the fireplace and clean out this area did my health improve...almost overnight.

2) Do not install a concrete driveway within 15 feet of trees that get taller than 10 feet!
      In time, the nearby tree will extend roots under the driveway reaching from one side to the other. In our case, some of the roots got as big around as a softball.   This causes the driveway to buckle and as cars and heavy vehicles go over it, large sections will separate.  The only cure is to dig a trench on the side of the driveway and cut these roots with a chainsaw.  Then, all of the broken pieces of concrete must be removed as the roots are pulled out.  In our case, the roots filled up the back of a small pickup truck.  It would have been wiser to simply have the driveway filled in with oyster shell or cracked asphalt. 

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

        If you have memories associated with some object, those memories are not erasable.  Thirty nine years ago, I was inclined to heavy drinking.  I often went to a place called Old Trail Package Store in Ft. Wayne Indiana where I was stationed with a job.  Being a valued customer, I was given an excellent can opener by the owner which had the name of their store on it.  Now, I look back and regret much of those days including my heavy drinking.  After all these years all the printing on the can opener has worn off and the handle is simply clean and white.   Sometimes I am tempted to just throw it away since every time I use it I am forced to remember a part of my past that I regret.  However, were I to replace it with a store bought can opener, then every time I looked at the new can opener I would remember why I bought it. 

       Perhaps you have a pen that was given to you by a person that you now disdain.  If you replace it with another, every time you pick up the new pen you will remember why you bought it.  If you replace a picture of a disliked relative with some other picture, every time you look at the different picture hanging there you will remember why it is there instead of the picture of the disliked relative. 

      If you have memories associated with an object, my experience is that the memory cannot be erased totally.  The human memory can be most useful and valuable in getting things done...that is when its not an accursed thing.