Mamacita says:  I baked three more pies tonight; the cherry pie turned out fine, but the two pecan pies boiled over and the bottom of my oven is covered with sticky carmelized sugar and the whole house smells like “Is something burning?”  I had to open the patio doors to let the smoke out; I hope some of the stank blew out, too.

I have no idea why those two pecan pies overflowed like that.  I made two pecan pies Wednesday night, and those didn’t boil over.  I made all four pies in exactly the same way, too.  Oh, well. Eventually the ick on the oven floor will turn to ashes and blow away. Because, you know, I ain’t touching that stuff.

1.  A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.  –Austin O’Malley

2.  Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.  –La Rouchefoucauld

3.  Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.  –Albert Schweitzer

4.  You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.  –Booker T. Washington

5.  We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.  –Emerson

6.  Music expresses that which cannot be said, and on which it is impossible to be silent.  –Victor Hugo

7.  I don’t know what your problem is, but I bet it’s hard to pronounce.  –Unknown

8.  What is defeat?  Nothing but education, and nothing but the first step to something better.  –Wendell Phillips

9.  Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.  –Ovid

10.  Comparison is the expedient of those who cannot reach the heart of the things compared.  –George Santayana

11.  Virtue does not consist so much in abstaining from vice, as in not having an affection for it.  –W.T. Eldridge

12.  You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal – no one will see it.  But when a button is missing – everyone sees that.  –Erich Maria Remarque

13.  He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.  –Joseph Heller

14.  Most people tend to perform the actions that require least efort, to think the thoughts that are easiest, to feel the emotions that are most vulgarly commonplace, to give the rein to desires that are most nearly animal.  –Aldous Huxley

15.  . . . quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.  They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.  –Churchill

16.  Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.  –Edgar Degas

17.  Every exit is an entry somewhere.  –Tom Stoppard

18.  Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.  –Proverbs 17:28

19.  I tell you, h opeless grief is passionless.  –E.B. Browning

20.  The idealist walks on his toes; the materialist on his talons.  –Malcolm DeChagal

21.  So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.  –Brenda Ueland

22.  Applaud, friends, the comedy is over.  –Beethoven, on his deathbed

23.  At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a mistake when He brought some people into being.  –George Denis Sate Kelsey

24.  Virtue, perhaps, is only politeness of soul.  –Balzac

25.  What is a vision?  It is a compelling image of an achievable future.  –Laura Berman Fortgang

26.  (there is) only one thing I believe of him, and that is, that he will not come to life again after he is dead.  –Unknown

27.  We are never happy.  We can only remember that we were so once.  –Alexander Smith

28.  A hypocrite is a person who – but who hasn’t?  –Don Marquis

28.  I always thought when you got older, you got wiser.  Well, it doesn’t help.  You know what it’s all about, but don’t let anybody tell you that lessens the pain.  –Samson Raphaelson

29.  Age is no cause for veneration.  An old crocodile is still a menace, and an old crow sings not like a nightingale.  –Dagobert David Runes

30.  Why is it that people with closed minds always open their mouths?  –Unknown

31.  You are only what you are when no one is looking.  –Robert Chambers Edwards

32.  When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in their world is over.  –George MacDonald

33.  As long as you can still be disappointed, you are still young.  –Sarah Churchill

34.  What we need if we want to stay flexible and young in our minds, is to be limber, loving, and a little loony.  –Harry Allen Overstreet

35. I remember my youth, and the feeling that will never come back any more – the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.  –Joseph Conrad

36.  Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life.  –Berthold Auerbach

37.  There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.  –Marquis de Sevigne

38.  Properly we should read for power.  Man reading should be man intensely alive.  The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.  –Ezra Pound

39.  The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.  –Unknown

40.  Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.  Nobody that matters, that is.  –Edna St. Vincent Millay

41.  . . . (her) demeanor was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the dawn express in the small of the back.  –P.G. Wodehouse

42.  There are so many little dyings that it doesn’t matter which of them is death.  –Kenneth Patchen

43.  The only completely consistent people are the dead.  –Aldous Huxley

44.  The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.  –Unknown

45.  If you assign people duties without granting them rights, you must pay them well. –Goethe

46.  We come.  We go.  And in between, we try to understand.  –Rod Steiger

47.  He had lived long enough to know that it is unwise to wish everything explained.  –Sir Thomas Coningsby

48.  It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.  –Alec Bourne

49.  Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.  –Werner Heisenburg

50.  It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.  –John Andrew Holmes

#50 should be carved in stone, somewhere in every school in the world, in a place where every student would see it several times daily for many years.  Perhaps we would have fewer people who believe the world exists expressly for them.  And wouldn’t THAT be a wonderful thing!!!

Also?  I hate twits.