"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~Norman Vincent Peale

"Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles."
~Author Unknown

it's all true

cause for optimism

go fly this

I will prevail

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."
~Sun Tzu

Napoleon Hill

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

put that in your pocket

African Cichlid

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

Hierocles

"We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice."

on seeking justice

"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."

~Earl Warren

how do you spin your life?

"Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being."
~Marcus Aurelius

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."

~ Francis Bacon

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

the great man is he

"It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

~Emerson

"Even a little dog can piss on a big building."

~James Hightower

great big building

"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry."
~Winston Churchill

fine dining

straight

when the lines get crossed

heaven sent

"It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode." ~Voltaire

Once By The Ocean

~a poem by Robert Frost

Once By The Ocean

The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the light was spoken.

Q. What do you get when you cross a black cat with a lemon?

A. a sour puss

throw stones much?

cry me a verdict

Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
~Oscar Wilde

Avec Plaisir

I've come this far

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."

swim not sink

trance

close to success

forward march

Mark Twain

"Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle."

enlightened

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
~John Quincy Adams

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Fall

appealing sucrose liquid lunch substitute

to define surly

surly

1. Sullenly ill-humored; gruff.
2. Threatening, as of weather conditions; ominous: surly clouds filled the sky.
3. Obsolete. Arrogant; domineering.

welcome back

please &

Antoine Saint-Exupéry

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

insight

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

to discover the unknown

the dynamic point

halftime huddle

Winston Churchill

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

Friederich Nietzsche

"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."

Winston Churchill

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”

please to take 'giant children' firmly by the hand

say Peet's please

Isocarates

"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can."