quotes and backgrounds

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson



When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard



Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb



Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner



Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz



I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. ~Steven Wright



Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel. ~Roger Simon, 1988



A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus



Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ~Frank Zappa



Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ~Diogenes



Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. ~J.S. Farynski



Only that day dawns to which we are awake. ~Henry David Thoreau



If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children." ~Susan Savannah



If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"



It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S Truman



It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow



Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall