Quote of the Day

"Sensible and Responsible women do not want to vote."

Grover Cleveland, 1905

Thoughts?

Quote of the Day

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men."

~John Stuart Mill

Austen Quote

From Jane Austen's Love and Freindship (with original spelling and grammar)

"My beloved Laura (said she to me a few Hours before she died) take warning from my unhapped End and avoid the imprudent conduct which had occasioned it.... Beware of fainting-fits.... Though at the time they may be refreshing and agreable yet beleive me they will in the end, if too often repeated and at imporoper seasons, prove destructive to your Constuitution... My fate will teach you this... I die a Martyr to my greif for the loss of Augustus .. One fatal swoon has cost me my Life... Beware of swoons Dear Laura... A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernuicious; it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is I dare say conducive to Health in its consequences - Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint -"


I know Rebecca and Susie are probably tired of this, but I like it! It stricks me so funny! "Run mad as often as you chuse but do not faint."

Quote of the Day (Lincoln)

I have been driven many times upon my knees
by the overwhelming conviction
that I had nowhere else to go.
~Abraham Lincoln

- As I was standing in the Lincoln Memorial reading the speeches he gave and thinking about the world today and the world then, and what President Lincoln said, I was reminded of this quote and it really got me thinking about how it is so true and how I really need to get on my knees.

Quote of the Day (Chambers)

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God
whose ways you may not understand at the time."

—Oswald Chambers

I was looking over the quotes I have saved for future quotes of the day, or at this rate, week.... and when I read this one I knew it was the one I wanted to post. I really need to remind myself of this one.. and this was the best picture I could find, sorry..

Quote of the Day (Cole) and a couple camp pictures :)

To observe nature closely is to follow the finger of God.

~Thomas Cole

Quote of the Day (Winston Churchill)

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
~ Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day (Jane Austen)

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before.
~ Jane Austen in a letter to her niece

O.k. so this isn't exactly a something to think about quote, it just struck my fancy. Jane Austen, the woman who wrote so much about love is giving her niece advice about it :)

Quote of the Day (C.S. Lewis)

These quotes have to come with an explanation :) About a year ago Dad put in the movie Shadowlands.It is an excellent movie about the life of C.S. Lewis. Anyway, I didn't watch all of it, I came in about half-way through. But right away the following lines caught me ear and had me thinking for a few hours.

We read to know we are not alone. Do you believe that?
~C.S. Lewis

Experience is a brutal teacher, but we learn.
~C.S. Lewis

Why do we love if losing hurts so much?
~C.S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

To love is to allow hope into your life.

To hope is to allow uncertainty into your life.

To be uncertain is the essence of learning to trust God to bring only the disappointments He deems best.

~Gretchen Louise Acheson

Music Quotes (Quote of the Day)

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

~June Masters Bacher

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

~Sir Thomas Beecham

Where words fail, music speaks.

~Hans Christian Andersen

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

~Victor Hugo

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

~Thomas Carlyle

Music is love in search of a word.

~Sydney Lanier

Quote Of The Day!

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it.


~Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the day

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt