laksa nyonya

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath. ~John Donne



There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman



It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller



Be naughty - save Santa a trip. ~Author Unknown



Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968



It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. ~Abraham Lincoln, quoted in What Great Men Think Of Religion by Ira Cardiff



We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ~Arthur Hoppe



Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life. ~Jessi Lane Adams



The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. ~Charles W. Tobey



Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey



If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce



The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~Cicero



Her hair possessed so powerful an animal odor and was so electrically stimulating, that its mere contact with my skin instantaneously made me forget fever, fatigue and pain... and I immediately felt heroic ardor and new strength flowing and surging through my veins. ~"The Garden," Chapter 1



When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk



Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris



No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton



Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch