Ellie trying to explain why she is afraid of choosing a man to marry: "Well, it's just like a lego - you never know when it's going to explode or change color or something!"

Men. They're just like legos!

Famous last words from the Children's Department: "I can carry a heavy backpack with my teeth. Just watch!"

Never suppress a generous impulse. Camilla Kimball

From the "rude but true" department, a bumper sticker I saw on the way to work this morning: HONK if you have intercepted Max Hall. ha ha

"With my luck, I will die the night before the Resurrection and have to get up the next morning and go to work." LeGrand Richards

From the NPR Reader's Quotations Blog: "We were told that if one locked a million monkeys in a room with a million typewriters they would eventually produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we know that isn't true."

From the Tabernacle Choir website: "Deeds, like boomerangs, come back to us."

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. -- despair.com

From the Extreme Bulls rodeo in Rapid City

"That bull could have knocked him nekkid."

Like Park Avenue debutantes, our Holsteins were high maintenance, moved in packs, and were immune to reasoning or punishment. Though we assumed that they were dumb as fence posts, they didn't have to outsmart us--they merely wore us down with repetition. Whatever they had done today, they would find a way to do again tomorrow.
Amy Dickinson in The Mighty Queens of Freeville

"Oh well, half of one, six dozen of the other." -- Joe Garagiola

Stephen, after looking at the Pl.Grove Weather Webcam: [In Utah], March came in like a lion and went out like a rhinoceros.

This morning as Grandpa started watching his television church service featuring Mark Eubank and his daughter for the zillionth time, I asked him if he would rather watch the Tabernacle Choir program. He said no, because "once in awhile they sing a familiar tune but I don't have any interest in that opera singing."

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi