Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.
- J. Krishnamurti

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
- John Luther

BBC Voiceover: We interrupt this program to annoy you and make things generally irritating. -- Monty Python

Life is Living anything else is a sad simulation...

It's true that misery loves company. If you ever doubt
that, look at a No-Pest Strip. It's COVERED with flies.
You'd think that the FIRST fly would tell any others
"GO AROUND! GO AROUND!..."

"A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation."
- Donald Trump

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. -- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Moderation)

True happiness springs from moderation. (German: Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Naturliche Tochter (II, 5, 79)

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 18)

Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses: Story of Phaeton (bk. II, l. 147))

Moderate pleasure relaxes the spirit, and moderates it. (Latin: Modica voluptas laxat animos et temperat.) -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira (II, 20)

Pandarus: Be moderate, be moderate.
Cressida: Why tell you me of moderation?
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it.
How can I moderate it?
(William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus & Cressida at IV, iv))

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless, and the choicest pleasures of life lie with the ring of moderation. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy--Of Compensation (l. 15)

Enough about moderation.

If garlic powder is made from garlic, and olive oil is made from olives, what are baby powder and baby oil made from? One must also consider foot powder and toothpaste.

Softens Your Hands as You Do Dishes

Assumed by Global Honk to be a warning label. If every time you use a product it softens your hands, won't they eventually turn to mush?

According to Merriam Webster Online the word stupid appears to have originated in 1541. Imagine this, before 1541 nobody was stupid! This sounds very nice, but then I get a little sad because of 1541 and the introduction of the word stupid. Who was the first person officially known as stupid? Did this bother the person to be called stupid?

Happy thought, perhaps this person was so stupid he or she didn't know that being called stupid was not a compliment.

well you were the one who said "Enough about moderation." So I am complying

#746 was great!

My capacity for happiness, you could fit it into a matchbox without taking out the matches first. -- Marvin the paranoid android, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Moderation in all things...especially wallpapers.....© 2003 JAFO