Mamacita says:  It’s always sad when the guests are gone and the house echoes with silence again.  I don’t  “do”  peace and quiet very well.  I much prefer the bustle and noise of lovely friendly people around me, and music playing in the background.  MY music, of course.

As for me, personally. . . well, see #25.  Sigh.

1. One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another. -Juvenal

2.  We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she is someone today.  — Stacia Taushe

3.  Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.  –Chinese saying

4.  What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.  –Eric Hoffer

5.  It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.  — J. Krishnamurti

6.  A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.  –Anonymous

7.  Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.  –Vivian Greene

8.  Life is short; break the rules.  Love truly.  Laugh uncontrollably.  Never regret anything that made you smile.  –Unknown

9.  Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.  The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.  –Abraham Lincoln

10.When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.  –Japanese proverb

11.  I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not.  I think:  Be civil.  Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings.  There’s a vanity to candor that isn’t really worth it.  Be kind.  — Richard Greenberg

12.  Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions.  All life is an experiment.  The more experiments you make, the better.  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.  The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity.  –Dorothy Parker

14.  A healthy male adult bore consumers each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.  –John Updike

15.  I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt.  I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.  –Bertrand Russell

16.  Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.  –Albert Einstein

17.  If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.  –Norman Douglas

18.  Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways, it can change someone else’s life forever.  –Margaret Cho

19.  Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.  –Plutarch

20.  A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.  — William James

21.  There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.  –Goethe

22.  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.  –Bertrand Russell

23.  The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.  –Nietzsche

24. Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.  –Logan Pearsall Smith

25.  Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.  — Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider