Which Way to Easy Street?

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please everybody." ~ Herbert Swope, address, Dec. 20, 1950

Please, give me a sign

"People are hungry for messages of hope and life." ~ Morgan Brittany

Never be late for Sunday brunch

"I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street." ~ Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite

Doing it my way

“I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” ~ Anne Wilson Schaef

Love -- it's worth embracing

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." ~ Albert Einstein

I've loved you so long

"One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love." ~ Elizabeth Aston

Spring, when a person's fancy turns to...

"You call it madness, but I call it love." ~ Don Byas

Moving on to spring...

"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month." ~ Henry Van Dyke

Layered

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." ~ Victor Hugo

Soft focus, please, and only my right side

"I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery." ~ Joan Rivers

Does this make my legs look fat?

"Recently, an Associated Press story about the New York City subway system caught my eye. According to subway officials, a leading cause of subway delays is crash dieters who faint on the platform or on the train. That's right -- crash dieters who pass out and require medical help are a top cause of transit delays." ~ The South Beach Diet Supercharged by Dr. Arthur Agatston

Tipsy Santa

"If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt." ~ Dean Martin

Grinning Peeping Tom

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” ~ John Perry Barlow

A pink tie affair

"Say it loud and say it proud -- a real man can wear any color he wants! And if he wants to show support for those with breast cancer, the secure and discriminating man wears pink." ~ thebreastcancersite.com

No need for sleeping pills

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Resting

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.” ~ Spanish Proverb

Freedom

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." ~ Viktor Frankl

Dying tulip

"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days." ~ Garrison Keillor

Hints of spring

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."~ Susan J. Bissonette

Gift paper

"I dwell in possibility..." ~ Emily Dickinson

Wicked

"The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?" ~ William Makepeace Thackeray