"Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken." (Jane Austen, 'Emma')

good one fran!!!!!

Oh Frances that's excellent!

Very appropriate and so, so true, Frances!

"Be realistic, ask the impossible." - Loesje

"Out of all this beauty something must come." - Ezra Pound

"Being present is more than just show up" Sorry but don´t remember the author.

"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened." Terry Pratchett 'Moving Pictures'

Not so much a quote as one sentence in a song that always grabs me. "... and of all his boyhood-dreams, the only thing he had accomplished (in his life) was growing old.." Acda & De Munnik

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

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Make love, not war" I guide my life for that sentence!!!!!!!!!!

You can get great t-shirts at the moment with slogans like that Sil. Have you heard the extended? "Make love, not war. Condoms are cheaper than guns." I own a couple of the slogan t-shirts. My friends and I collect them and share them around. Collectively we have: "Make music, not missiles" "Drop beats, not bombs" "Fight poverty, not people" "Pick flowers, not fights" "Hold hands, not grudges" "Live it. Rock it. Love it"

Ah, Kaitlyn, you are taking me back to my Anti-Nazi League marching days. 'Rock Against Racism' and all that. One of my favourite T-shirt slogans in latter days, was one my daughter had (and perhaps it would suit Ioan) "What part of 'Perfect' don't you understand?"