Monday Quotes

1. Life is full of needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention when alrger matters are at stake, and they remain in the mind they are fogotten, so that in years later, it is a bit of gilding, or a certain smell , or the tone of clockt's striking which recalls one to a tragedy. --Evelyn Waugh

2. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with snse, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --Galileo Galilei

3. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. --James Thurber

4. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. --A. A. Milne

5. Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?  --Anon.


1. I love this because it describes so many moments of my life. The memory of several hard things are tied up with what I was staring at when I heard/processed it.

• Hearing we were moving away from my childhood home at 13 = the blue shag carpet in the living room.
• Breaking up with my first boyfriend because of religion = the curtains in his living room. 
• Not invited to my brother's wedding = the mattress on the floor in my bedroom in Dallas.

2. Let's hear it for Galilei. No matter what questions I have, I know that the Lord made me and therefore wants me to think for myself.

3. I think this is one explanation of some humor, although it is not comprehensive.

4. Exactly!

5. Hee hee. :)