RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 30, 2013:"As a customer, it's always your prerogative to challenge a gratuity..."

"As a customer, it's always your prerogative to challenge a gratuity. You don't tip incompetent service."

~Paul Eisenberg

(Or food, or drink, or anything else that made your dining experience less than pleasant, because it's not ALWAYS about just bad service. ~RB <><)

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 28, 2013: "Hors D'oeuvre..."

"Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces." 

~Jack Benny

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 27, 2013: "I THINK that I shall never see..."

"I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."

~Joyce Kilmer,1886–1918

 

 

 

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 26, 2013: "God loved the birds and invented trees..."

"God loved the birds and invented trees. 

Man loved the birds and invented cages."

 

~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

 

 

 

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 24, 2013: "The most remarkable thing about my mother is..."

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

~Calvin Trillin 

 

 

 

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 23, 2013: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave..."

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, a chocolate in one hand and a martini with an olive in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
'WOO HOO - What A RIDE!'" 

~Anonymous

I wonder if "Anonymous" did skid into their grave that way in the end. What a rush!!! LOL ~RB <><

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 22, 2013: "We plan our lives according to a dream..."

"We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected."

~Ben Okri 

 

 

 

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 20, 2013: “People so seldom say I love you..."

“People so seldom say I love you, and then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, it doesn't mean I know you'll never go...
only that I wish you didn't have to.”

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 19, 2013: "When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play..."

"When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play.  I said, 'I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato.' I heard laughter, and I wanted to be an actress from that moment on."

 ~Doris Roberts

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 18, 2013: "I look only to the good qualities of men..."

"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."

~Mahatma Ghandi

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 17, 2013: “The first quality for a commander-in-chief is..."

“The first quality for a commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.”

~Napoleon Bonaparte

(Good advice for us all, I believe. ~RB <><)

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 16, 2013: "I have lost 8,367,419,467,390,251..."

"I have lost 8,367,419,467,390,251 bobby pins in my lifetime."

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 14, 2013: "If nothing ever changed..."

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies."

 

~Author Unknown

 

 

 

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 13, 2013: "A multitude of causes unknown to former times..."

I know this is deep, but I do hope you'll think about it for a bit, because I believe it describes exactly the lack of compassion and violence that we are experiencing in the world today.
~RB <><

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"A multitude of causes unknown to former times
are now acting with a combined force
to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind,  
and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion
to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."

~William Wordsworth

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 12, 2013: "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing..."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

~John Ruskin

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 11, 2013: "After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody..."

"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, 

even one's own relations."

~Oscar Wilde

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 10, 2013: “Food is the most primitive form..."

“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.”

~Sheilah Graham, 1904-1988

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 9, 2013: "It matters not who you love..."

"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, how you love - 
it matters only that you love. 

All you need is love, love is all you need."

~John Lennon

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 7, 2013: "For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens..."

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

~Doug Larson

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 6, 2013: "Truly great friends are hard to find..."

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 5, 2013: "Always be careful of liars..."

"Always be careful of liars, 

because if a person will lie to you, 

they'll steal from you too."

~Elizabeth Sabo Chervenak

Our Grandmother

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 4, 2013: "Patience is not the ability to wait..."

"Patience is not the ability to wait. 

Waiting is a fact of life. 

Patience is the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

~Joyce Meyer

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 3, 2013: "Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins..."

"Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can’t fit you into my schedule right now."

~Uniek Swain

RB QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 2, 2013: "I'm not sure what the theme of my homily today ought to be..."

"I'm not sure what the theme of my homily today ought to be. Do I want to speak of the miracle of Our Lord's divine transformation? Not really, no. I don't want to talk about His divinity. I'd rather talk about His humanity. I mean, you know, how He lived His life, here on Earth. His kindness, His tolerance. Listen, here's what I think. I think that we can't go around - measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think - we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create - and who we include."

~Père Henri

Chocolat

Sunday Mass Sermon

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: January 1, 2013: “We will open the book..."

“We will open the book. 

Its pages are blank. 

We are going to put words on them ourselves. 

The book is called Opportunity and 

its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” 

~Edith Lovejoy Pierce