just another persons waste of time
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
.: on home :.
07 June 2009
.: on home :.
Came across these and liked them, so I am passing them along.
"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the
mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come
loaded with every folly home."
- Shelby Foote
"Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve;
it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room."
-
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our
hearts."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The dreams which accompany all human actions should be nurtured by the
places in which people live."
- Charles W. Moore
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
-
Jane Austen
"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."
-
Winston Churchill
"In the South, perhaps more than any other region, we go back to our
home in dreams and memories, hoping it remains what it was on a lazy,
still summer's day twenty years ago."
- Willie Morris
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Posted by: Peter - 2:44 AM MDT
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