General Chat

T.S.Elliot.

We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started,
And know the place for the first time.

The Internet is absolute communication within absolute isolation.


Bridget

MAY THE ROOF ABOVE
NEVER FALL IN
MAY WE BELOW
NEVER FALL OUT..

A life spent making mistakes, is not only honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing...George Bernard Shaw

'More than you need will always be greed'.

A SCOTS TOAST

''MAY THE BEST YOU'VE EVER SEEN
BE THE WORST YOU;LL EVER SEE;
MAY THE MOUSE NE'ER LEAVE YOUR GIRNAL
WI' A TEAR DRAP IN ITS E'E
MAY YOUR LUM KEEP BLITHELY REEKIN'
TILL YE'RE AULD ENOUGH TO DEE;
MAY YOU AYE BE JUST AS HAPPY
AS I WISH YOU NOW TO BE!"

FOR 2012
TO LOVED ONES FAR AND NEAR STAY SAFE .
AND TO ABSENT FREINDS

"Tell the truth & shame the devil".

Found this to share with you all'


From quiet homes and first beginnings,
Out to undiscovered ends,
There is nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter, and the love of friends.

Hillaire Belloc's 'Dedicatory Ode'

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem........Bill Vaughan

Colin Firth said...my singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem

Thanks Mau. Just testing. Lovely sunday school words you (and Sneeze)print.
Our version had the second line "with a pure clear light".

Also remember "if you don't go to Sunday school you';ll grow up to be bad. For I want the Lord to be proud of me......

Best wishes Happy days

Jesus bids us shine,
First of all for Him;
Well He sees and knows it,
If our light grows dim.
He looks down from Heaven
To see us shine
You in your small corner,
And I in mine.

Jesus bids us shine,
Then, for all around;
Many kinds of darkness
In the world are found
Sin and want and sorrow;
So we must shine
You in your small corner,
And I in mine.

Mau

Hi Sneeze....I used to sing that verse at Sunday school,perhaps that's where your mum learnt it? :-)

Mau xx

Nice to see this thread going strong. One of my very favourite poems is the simple and charming one posted by Agatha at the very bottom of page 15 (amazed that no-one commented on it).

I use the poem a lot and would love to know who the author is - to so give credit.

Happy days

Old King Cole.
~~~~~~~~~~~

Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe in the middle of the night
And he called for his fiddlers three.

Every fiddler had a fine fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh there's none so rare as can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three.

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends....Martin Luther King Jr

Some times nothing is a real cool hand.

You ring the bells today,
You could wring your hands tomorrow!

You can't wipe the tears off another persons's face without getting your hands wet........Zula proverb

Thank you everyone for the posts on this page, I will add tomorrow

Bridget

When asked on his deathbed, by the Priest, to 'Renounce the Devil and all his works', Voltaire replied ' That this was no time to be making enemies!!'