Quote of the Day - January

4dogknight · Dec 31, 2004

January 1st

Auld Lang Syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend
And gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

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The eighth day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five gold rings,
Four colly birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves, and
A partridge in a pear tree

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 1, 2005

January 2nd

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'
-- Dave Barry

On the ninth day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Nine drummers drumming,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five gold rings,
Four colly birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves, and
A partridge in a pear tree

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 2, 2005

January 3rd

Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brother. What is man without the beasts? if all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, also happens to the man.
-- Chief Seattle of the Puget Sound Suwamish Tribe

The tenth day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Ten pipers piping,
Nine drummers drumming,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five gold rings,
Four colly birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves, and
A partridge in a pear tree

.

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 3, 2005

January 4th

In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West -- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford -- were caused by erosion.
-- Dave Barry

The eleventh day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Eleven ladies dancing,
Ten pipers piping,
Nine drummers drumming,
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five gold rings,
Four colly birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves, and
A partridge in a pear tree

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 4, 2005

January 5th

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;-- World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world.
-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

The twelfth day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping,
Eleven ladies dancing,
Ten pipers piping,
Nine drummers drumming,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five gold rings,
Four colly birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves, and
A partridge in a pear tree.

4dk

show 42 · Jan 6, 2005

January 6th

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

4dogknight · Jan 6, 2005

January 6th - Epiphany

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- Shakespeare – “Twelfth Night" - (Act II. Scene V)

Three Wise Women Would Have…
Asked directions,
Arrived on time,
Helped deliver the baby,
Cleaned the stable,
Made a casserole,
Brought practical gifts and
There would be
Peace on Earth

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 6, 2005

January 7th

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
-- Shirley MacLaine

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 8, 2005

January 8th

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
-- May-lin Soong Chiang

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 8, 2005

January 9th

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
-- Louis Brandeis

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 9, 2005

January 10th

It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
-- Albert Einstein

4dk

Petlover · Jan 10, 2005

Another day, another milk-bone (from my dogs).

Another day, another window to sit in (from my cat)

4dogknight · Jan 10, 2005

January 11th

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

4dk - who has long been a fan of Thurber especially his "dogs". If you use the link above to access the Thurber site, then click on the "Thurber and his works" option, you'll see Thurberesque dogs throughout the text, especially at the "Reviews and Essays on Works" section.

4dogknight · Jan 11, 2005

January 12th

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
-- Clive Alexander Barnes

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 12, 2005

January 13th

My goal is to someday be the person my dog thinks I am.
-- Author Unknown

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 13, 2005

January 14th

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 14, 2005

January 15th - Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday

I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their tired bodies, education and culture for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the alters of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and non-violent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land 'and the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid.' I still believe that we shall overcome.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

(See more information re. Matin Luther King here.)

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 15, 2005

January 16th

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
-- James Baldwin

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 16, 2005

January 17th

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson

4dk

4dogknight · Jan 17, 2005

January 18th

But it isn't Easy," said Pooh to himself... "Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
A.A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner

Today is AA Milne's birthday. See the information here and here about this extraordinary man, his son Christopher Robin and the wonderful world of Pooh.

4dk - who has been a fan since the age of three.

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