Flash Fiction Chronicles

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AUGUST 14, 2011

STRUT-COURTESY-ARCHERY-PUNISHMENT-VOLLEY-SCORCH-EPICENTER-PROTEST-BANDY-TISSUE

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.  – Charles Horton Cooley

AUGUST 13, 2011

PRUNE-DESERT-SUCK-TYRO-COUNTERMAND-LITTER-SLOWLY-HOPSCOTCH-CHANT-STUDY

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. -Francois Rabelais

AUGUST 12, 2011

DAYBED-CONDUCT-PRIZE-BIWEEKLY-SALINE-FOURTEEN-THWART-DEPENDABLE-TRELLIS-CONJUNCTION

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy

AUGUST 11, 2011

SHREW-HAMLET-BALEFUL-APPROPRIATE-ZIGZAG-EERILY-KEYNOTE-LIVING-CHOCOHOLIC-RIGHT FIELD

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. -Thomas Jefferson

AUGUST 10, 2011

SIDELONG-VOLATILE-DRAFT-LEXICON-AMOK-RETOUCH-DRABLY-ACERBATE-STRICT-MOUNTAIN

Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. -Ellen Degeneres

AUGUST 9, 2011

POMACE-HOODOO-NATURALLY-SISTERHOOD-WOUND-ENVELOP-UNGUENT-CARAVAN-ABACUS-NEGATIVE

It’s great being blonde – with such low expectations it’s easy to impress. -Pamela Anderson

AUGUST 8, 2011

MOUNTAIN-STIFFEN-WHIRL-GESTATE-BATHOS-RESOURCEFULLNESS-GDANSK-ZODIAC-STEADY-POMANDER

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. -Dale Carnegie

AUGUST 7, 2011

GALLANT-IOU-PEDIGREE-SUFFER-JOINTLY-SELLOUT-WHEEL-DEPRESSING-BENCH-AMONG

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.  -Simone de Beauvoir

AUGUST 6 2011

BIG DOG-SULTRY-ENAMEL-CHIMES-FREIG​HT-LAMP POST-REMARK-SELDOM-FLIP SWITCH-CRASH

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. –Nelson Algren

AUGUST 5 2011

BARN-WASH CLOTHS-BOOT-FANNY-CATTLE GUARD-DIRT ROAD-ASPEN-WRANGLE-TIGER BALM-RODEO

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight –Roy Rogers

AUGUST 4  2011

KISMET-FREEZER-GRASSLAND-MINUSCULE-DEVOUR-ABODE-BURN-ENDOW-SILENT-MALEVOLENT

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.   –J. B. Priestley 

AUGUST 3  2011

DIAGRAM-ROUST-ABRADE-EAR SPLITTING-NAUTILUS-AZURE-CIGARETTE-JEER-COLLEGE-INSPECTOR

Dreaming men are haunted men.   –Stephen Vincent Benet

AUGUST 2  2011

HAPPENING-SWING-MOUTHWASH-BULLFINCH-SHORTS-CAUSE-TRADE-THRESHOLD-TREK-SPOTTED

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.   –Shirley MacLaine 

AUGUST 1  2011

WRAPPER-BLACKENED-BROOCH-FLIP-OVATION-SECOND-ILLUSION-CHEESE-METRO-GLASSY

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.  –Louis L’Amour

JULY 31  2011

HAIR RAISING-ANNOY-DRENCH-DUET-KEYSTROKE-PETTICOAT-MELLOW-SPOTTED-FREQUENT-EMBRACE

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.   –Alexander Pope

JULY 30  2011

QUAINT-MILK-LIFESTYLE-EDDY-DOWN HOME-YEAST-CANVAS-CATBIRD-HOSTILE-EMPIRE

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.   –Francois de La Rochefoucauld

JULY 29  2011

CAREFREE-PRESTIGE-MAINLAND-WRAP-EXUDE-CROSS EYED-VIXEN-FLOP-IMPRINT-PREY

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.   –Arthur Miller

JULY 28  2011

DECIDE-ELEGY-SIDETRACK-CHIVES-PUNCH-LOFTY-DUPE-UNKEMPT-BUMPER-GRAPPLE

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.   –Ludwig Wittgenstein

JULY 27  2011

ALLOW-MERGE-OVATION-TAKEOUT-CARNAGE-PRECIOUS-CISTERN-KANGAROO-IMPASSE-SIMPLE

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.   –Maya Angelou

JULY 26  2011

HOLLOW- SLICK-GRAIN-RIVER-HOPELESS-RUB-POPSICLE-ALIEN-LIME-BLINDLY

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.   –Ronald Reagan

JULY 25  2011

HELLO-STRIPED-CONFRONTATION-GLASSES-THIRTEEN-KNEECAP-MUSTARD-MATCHES-CHIFFON-FLY

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.   –James A. Baldwin

JULY 24  2011

CAPER-FAST-HOUSEWIFE-MARGIN-KERCHIEF-MELBA TOAST-INLET-SNOWSTORM-PARENT-COUNT

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.   –Isaac Asimov

JULY 23  2011

WHEEZE-EYELET-FACE OFF-DEARY-HAIRDO-LANYARD-TALKATIVE-BEQUEATH-CRAZY-DIRGE

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.   –Paul Cezanne

JULY 22  2011

SUNSHINE-SMIRK-BRIDLE-RAVINE-SHOWROOM-DOUSE-AROMA-COASTER-WHITE-BLESSED

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.   –Pablo Picasso

JULY 21  2011

BOTTOM-MANILA-WONDER-FLOOR SHOW-PILOT-ROBUST-CLIPPERS-MATISSE-NOTE-CINEMA

Never give up on anybody.   –Hubert H. Humphrey

JULY 20  2011

DOWNSTREAM-IRREGULAR-HONEY-PIAZZA-SANDALWOOD-ROUND-RAUNCHY-RAIN-FLINCH-LASH

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.   –Mark Twain

JULY 19  2011

CURIOUS-PARALLAX-JADE-FLAPJACK-DELETE-LIGHT YEAR-CHOPSTICKS-DREARY-OUTBURST-RATIFY

All things must change to something new, to something strange.   –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

JULY 18  2011

SACRIFICE-COMMUNE-RAP-HALT-CHICKEN HOUSE-FULL-LABOR-HIP-BIGOT-PARSLEY

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.   –Seneca

JULY 17  2011

RITUAL-POPULAR-UNFAMILIAR-SHIVER-CONDO-STUFFED-URN-CURVE-BROOK-SWALLOW

A diary means yes indeed.   –Gertrude Stein

JULY 16  2011

PROFILE-BETRAY-ICY-FENCE-AEGIS-GARDEN-CARAPACE-WAVE-FLAKY-WONDER

Tell the truth and shame the devil.   –Francois Rabelais

JULY 15  2011

SNAPSHOT-PRANK-FIERY-BOWL-SHEPHERD-COTTAGE-SKELETON-SHRUG-BALD-GRIEF

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.   –F. Scott Fitzgerald

JULY 14  2011

SCALLOP-WASTELAND-AFRAID-TOE-LIMBO-STOLEN-FOOTMAN-LAMB-ALTER-WORDS

All serious daring starts from within.   –Eudora Welty

JULY 13  2011

RECUPERATION-SLEEP-CHINA-VEIN-ASHEN-BOUGHT-PEON-COCK-BAPTISM-LECTURE

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.   –H. L. Mencken

JULY 12  2011

WAX-DISTRAUGHT-GASKET-AQUILINE-STARCH-TOUCAN-LEGACY-PEAK-VIVACIOUS-BROWN

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.   –George Washington

JULY 11  2011

LINGER-BOWER-DIALECT-HALF WIT-CONCIERGE- PILES-SPONGE-TARNISH-FUDGE-ALONGSIDE

The real war will never get in the books.   –Walt Whitman

JULY 10  2011

SATIN-TEA-BIRTH-TALKATIVE-GUTTER-FURROW-SPRUCE-ANALYSIS-SNAP-SKID ROW

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.   –Rupert Brooke

JULY 9  2011

EMPHASIS-LIP SERVICE-BEDRAGGLED-DETAIL-VENGEANCE-HI FIDELITY-PROFILE-WART-HUMMINGBIRD-GROVE

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.  –Andre Breton

JULY 8  2011

PALMETTO-SCYTHE-IMMERSE-YELL-BUCK TOOTH-MISTRUST-EMERALD-LISTEN-DIRE-SAUNA

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. –Stendhal

JULY 7  2011

BROOCH-TUMBLEDOWN-ICE SKATE-WOUND-MATE-OATH-INSPIRE-KEEPING-FLORA-MISTAKE

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. –Friedrich Nietzsche

JULY 6  2011

JUKEBOX-SMIRK-MAN OF THE YEAR-WEB MAIL-SALTY-TRACE-OTTOMAN-BURGUNDY-COD-SIMMER

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.   –Oliver Wendell Holmes

JULY 5  2011

JUNCTION-SCRAPBOOK-ILLUMINATE-PREVENT-STEAMY-DEMOTE-INTERLACE- WARY-ARMFUL-ECRU

Belief creates the actual fact.   –William James

JULY 4  2011

STRIPES-THIRTEEN-BANNER-PARADE-SALUTE-FIFE-COUNTRY-YANKEE-PICNIC-APPLE

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.   –Thomas Jefferson

JULY 3  2011

SNORE-TOXIC-TOIL-DOWNY-HAUL-SAX-ROSTER-JAIL-MICE-WAN

Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.  –Edna Ferber

JULY2  2011

ENTOURAGE-FUTURE-BANGLE-TOENAIL-DEEP-CROSS-FLIGHT-WISE-DESERTED-HEALTH

Get busy living, or get busy dying.   –Stephen King

JULY 1  2011

TRANSFIX-SLATE-HOT PINK-EDDY-SPLOTCH-HAIL-MALIGN-VAULT-DIAMOND-STICKY

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.   –Jonathan Swift

JUNE 30  2011

ARTISTIC-FISHHOOK-FLATBED-EXIST-DESIRE-WALKOUT-MARTYR-EMBLEM-FLAKY-LINSEED OIL

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.   –Thomas Carlyle

JUNE 29  2011

FLEDGLING-OPIATE-ENTICE-HOARFROST-RESTORE-COMPLY-OVERPASS-RUDDY-TRIPLE-DERBY

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.   –Ralph Waldo Emerson

JUNE 28  2011

WAX-SINGER-MISTREAT-LAST-PEER-OPT-SLIME-TAPESTRY-BLESS-DEEM

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.   –Rene Descartes

JUNE 27  2011

MAID-BOMB-SOLVE-REUNION-DAHLIA-HARVARD-SEARCH-PREGNANT-PORTENT-KNOWN

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.   –C. S. Lewis

JUNE 26  2011

TREE-SLOW-WAVE-MONUMENT VALLEY-PRETENTIOUS-ABSTRACT-UNFOCUSED-LIFE-CONFUSION-TEXAS

Everybody’s a filmmaker today.   –John Milius

JUNE 25  2011

QUAKER-NOODLE-FORTUNE-DIRECT-YO YO-SLEEK-FIRE-OUTSIDE-REMOTE-ELBOW

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.   –Whoopi Goldberg

JUNE 24  2011

RELOAD-MANZANITA-BUZZWORD-CRUNCHY-VILLAGE-DAB-INDUSTRIAL-WAGON-BLEED-BIG TOE

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.   –Jules Verne

JUNE 23  2011

SHADOW-FACTORY-MISTAKE-VISION-YELLOW-SLIM-DUCK-BENCHMARK-LADDER-PLAID

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.   –Sparky Anderson

JUNE 22  2011

WEARY-TOURIST-ROOM-GLIMMER-FOLDED-JUNCTURE-SHARP-DODGE-BEHAVE-BULL

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.   –Charles Dickens

JUNE 21  2011

GLEE-DEFINE-INUNDATE-SIDELIGHT-BRICK-COSY-CARESS-NIGHT TIME-ROMANCE-WALLOW

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.   –John Milton

JUNE 20  2011

SAVOR-GIRTH-CLAMBER-OPPRESS-FEATHERY-MOSAIC-LOP-NOBLE-GIVE-BUSBOY

The best way out is always through.  –Robert Frost

JUNE 19  2011

SEWER-HIGH MINDED-DIED-EAGERNESS-OVERNIGHT-BODY-APPOINTMENT-PROUD-LAMB-CRANKY

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing.  –Ernest Gaines

JUNE 18  2011

PAINFUL-DEVOUR-CONCEALER-BITTER END-QUILL-MONK-LAMBENT-FEEBLE-GLOSS-NUMB

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.  –John Donne

JUNE 17  2011

OBLIVION-GAZE-LEVERAGE-FIERCE-CAVITY-SPRING-COMB-OMEN-DWELL-PAINSTAKING

People are strange, but more than that, they’re good. They’re good first, then strange.  –Dave Eggers

JUNE 16  2011

ANSWER-SHOCK-CRANBERRY-FLABBY-GESTICULATE-MANUAL-GLEN-SCISSORS-CORRECT-LAME

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.  –Julius Caesar

JUNE 15  2011

SAILOR-HANDCRAFT-PRETENTIOUS-POINT-LEWD-KITTY-RANDOM-TRUNK-UNDOING-CRESCENT

Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy.  –Lauren Bacall

JUNE 14  2011

HAMMER-ADORE-OWL-FECKLESS-TANTRUM-COBBLESTONE-MEANDER-BOGUS-HAIRY-BEIGE

The stars that have most glory have no rest. –Samuel Daniel

JUNE 13  2011

MESA-STEW-PRIZE-LUXURY-BICYCLE-ROUGE-FALLEN-TWIST-NAKED-PORTRAIT

As much as I’d like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don’t really believe it can happen.  –Chris Van Allsburg

JUNE 12  2011

COMFORT-FLIGHT-MINSTREL-SCUM-SHOCK-SNOW ANGEL-BERET-SPINDLE-HAUNT-PINK

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.  –Henry S. Haskins

JUNE 11  2011

BUSY-FOREHEAD-LASCIVIOUS-PLUMP-EXTEND-STEEL-BILLOW-PINE-SCANNERS-TENEMENT

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.  –Janis Joplin

JUNE 10  2011

ELICIT-SANDBLAST-ENERGY-WHALE-POLKA DOT-MADCAP-SHARPEN-RUNAWAY-FRONTIER-DEEP

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.  –Jacques Yves Cousteau

JUNE 9  2011

REFRESH-CHAT-STAINED-ARGUE-SMELL- GYPSY-SOLO-DICTIONARY-PEACOCK-DOUBLE ENTENDRE

I’m your knight in shining armor. I’m here to save you from Linkin Park.  –Rufus Wainwright

JUNE 8  2011

RETREAT-BREEZE-WRAITH-SWIRL-GREEN MAN-UNICYCLE-FORTY-TRYST-PEANUTS-MATCH

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

JUNE 7  2011

BUZZWORD-RICH-CAMERA-RUSTY-AROMA-FALLEN-PURPLE- NOTE-TUBULAR-FREEZE

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.  –Eugene O’Neill

JUNE 6  2011

RARE-SUMMERTIME-HAIL-GROAN-LINT-UNCORKS-GONE-RUSH-CRISP-CRAZY

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.  –Maya Angelou

JUNE 5  2011

PRESSURE-CAGE-RHINOCEROS-SEQUIN-JUDGE-BANANA-LEVELED-ELBOW-JUICE-MARKED

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.  –Robert Frost

JUNE 4  2011

MISTRESS- HAMBURGER-KICKBALL-BRAKE-LUMINOUS-ALTERNATIVE-PRIOR-SORE THROAT-RUBY-OBSESS

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.  –Chuck Palahniuk

JUNE 3  2011

DEPRESSION-BARTENDER-DISAPPEAR-CHARMED-FROZEN-SCION-PARIS-CLASH-ALONE-WONDER

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.  –Stephen King

JUNE 2  2011

WASTREL-GASLIGHT-FAIL-WINDOW-SUSPICIOUS-DANCING-PLAN-ERA-DIRECT-SEAGULL

I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.  –Alfred Hitchcock

JUNE 1  2011

MONARCH-CLIP-APRIL-ENLIGHTEN-THUG-RESOLVE-SYSTEM-ENOUGH-LAZY-SILL

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.  –Baltasar Gracian

MAY 31   2011

WORTHY-MOOD-LAUGH-BEHAVE-CODED-DITCH-PERSIAN-ROOT-DIMPLE-VERDIGRIS

Good and bad men are less than they seem.  –Samuel Taylor Coleridge

MAY 30  2011

GRAY-HONOR- GRIT-DECORATION-BLUE-MEMORIES-TAPS-TROOPS-CORPORAL-FLAG

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.  –Nadine Gordimer

MAY 29  2011

RADIO-POINTER-HOURLY-INTRUDER-BINGO-HARMLESS-COCONUT-TORNADO-BRIGHT-CURL

It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.  –Olin Miller

MAY 28  2011

MIX-CARGO-VESPA-BURN-LIFE GUARD-HIBISCUS-DRAW-NATIVE-SUNDRESS-CRIMP

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.  –Chris Brown

MAY 27  2011

SECOND- AIRPLANE-NOSTALGIA-GOATEE-BLUSTERY-GLOVE-DRIVEWAY-FUMBLE-UNEASY-DOT

There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.  –Fay Weldon

MAY 26  2011

ESCAPE-END-DOWN-ENTER-BREAK-SCROLL-SHIFT-INSERT-LOCK-DELETE

There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.  –Josh Billings

MAY 25  2011

THUG-DANCE-DOORKNOB-OCCASION-SLIDE-TARGET-CARELESS-FIDDLE-SHADE-MELT

Many people die with their music still in them. –Oliver Wendell Holmes

MAY 24  2011

HEEDLESS-FAVOR-PENDANT-AMBER-RETURN-STORM-GROTESQUE-RUNNING-LOST-FLAW

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  –e. e. cummings

MAY 23  2011

NIGHT SHIFT-RAPT-OUTER BANKS-ISLAND-GEMS-FUTURE-SIGN-BLACKBERRY-ALE-CODE

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.  –Margaret J. Wheatley

I’m back from my three day vacation.  Hope you all soldiered on!

MAY 19  2011

LET DOWN-OBJECT-SOLITUDE-FURNITURE-MODEST-RUINS-MEMORY-COMPLAIN-GRAVE-TATTLE

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.  –Jonathan Swift

MAY 18  2011

FLAGRANT-PANTHER-SONG-CHOICE-JUDGE-MERIT-TRIVIAL-TRESSES-TUB-ABOLISH

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.  –James M. Barrie

MAY 17  2011

VAIN-ENGRAVE-QUEEN-DRUNK-CALF-RED HOT-TRAIL-HONEYMOON-PASSAGE-LANE

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.  –James Thurber

MAY 16  2011

OBITUARY-WILD-CELL-DUST-PHONOGRAPH-ROLLING-KITCHEN-GRANITE-KINDHEARTED-FAIR DEAL

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.  –Albert Einstein

MAY 15  2011

TROUNCE-RESOLUTE-AFFECT-BULBS-JUICE-REKINDLE-RING-SPREAD-CHIFFON-TINY

I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.  –Jimmy Page

MAY 14  2011

WHISK-DELAY-IRREPLACEABLE-MAKE UP CASE-DIPPED-WING BACK-CRACKERS-SWEATY-RIVULET-STAB

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.  –Rose Macaulay

MAY 13  2011

BURP-MOTORCYCLE-ALOOF-SCOWL-DISCREET-PINHEAD-FIESTA-VAULTED-ENTRANCE-BEHOLDER

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.  –Buddy Holly

MAY 12  2011

JUDAS-CARDINAL-APPLE-FULL BLOWN-TANG-MERCY-STRESS-RISE-MANGY-BRAVURA

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.  –Friedrich Nietzsche

MAY 11  2011

DOUBTFUL-CRAZY-HEAT-GAME-THIEF-HYENA-SUPERSTITIOUS-WITTY-STONE WALL-INJURE

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.  –Dan Aykroyd

MAY 10  2011

PURSUE-KIDS-SYSTEM-SEEDED-FLY-INCIDENT-AZURE-CORAL-FRUITCAKE-SAND

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.  –Antisthenes

MAY 9  2011

FOREST-RIDER-KINDRED SPIRIT-LAMP-BRIMMING-MAIN-INNOCENT-DIM-KEEP-PREFER

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.  –Stendhal

MAY 8  2011

CHICK-HINGE-HUT-NOTICE-CRINKLE-HORSESHOE-BREEZY-TURQUOISE-GIVE UP-FINAL

Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.  –William Shakespeare

MAY 7  2011

GLASS-REVENGE-SHEEP-AVOID-SHOES-REEL-SOURCE-CAPABLE-CHOSEN-JET

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.  –John Barrymore

MAY 6  2011

WEAVE-PORT-BRASS-ROGUE-BARRIER-CAMPHOR-LURE-SHRINE-OLIVE-BELIE

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.  –William Ralph Inge

MAY 5  2011

CROSS-HUSH-DELIVERANCE-MASK-KINGDOM-MIRTH-STREAM-CHANCE-WHEEL-AWAKEN

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.  –Winston Churchill

MAY 4  2011

CRISIS-HELMET-VISIT-CROWN-BUBBLE-HOUND-PIT-SELF MADE-PASTURE-COBALT

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.  –William Wallace

MAY 3  2011

IRIS-MILLION-TIMELY-JARHEAD-GAME-SHUDDER-FORTRESS-MAGIC-SAINT-TROUBLE

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.  –Maya Angelou

MAY 2  2011

WILLOW-CAPTIVATE-STREET-LEVER-DENY-AMOUNT-WINGSPAN-AUBURN-ENVY-GRACE

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.  –Ingrid Bergman

MAY 1  2011

SOCKET-WALNUTS-BLUFF-SHINING-LITTLE MAN-HAWK-WIZENED-TIMID-UNERRING-CLEANSE

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. –Mortimer Adler

APRIL 30  2011

STORM-TIDES-BORN-SUPREME-WANDERLUST-LAST-PERFECT-FIT-FATHERHOOD-HOLLYWOOD

A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.  –Bill Cosby

APRIL 29  2011

CAMP-AUNT-ICY-POSSESS-CAMELLIA-TANGLE-RALLY-POOR-ADVICE-LAW

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.  –William Penn

APRIL 28  2011

MODERN-FURY-BOAT-DEED-PETRIFY-MIRACLE-GENTLEMEN-WAYWARD-EAST SIDE-FOX

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.  –John Steinbeck

APRIL 27  2011

SET UP-THIRD-KIND-CHAMPION-HEAT-HEIR-RECKLESS-INTRUDER-GALORE-HASTY

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.  –Graham Greene

APRIL 26  2011

VELVET-HOUSE-MEN-JOURNEY-INHERIT-HOLLOW-CLOUDS-RED SKY-WIN-STARS

The bitterest creature under heaven