"Its always when you think that youve lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable When are you due?"

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”

Source : Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

“The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day”

“When someone stands you up for a meeting, sure, you have the right to be disappointed, and perhaps even angry. But you can't take it personally - they probably do it to everyone.”

“We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!”

Source : "Ukip's Nigel Farage ridicules David Cameron's EU referendum speech" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.”

Source : Judith Viorst (1990). “Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations”, Thorndike Pr

“I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster

“Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.”