Tools

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

--Henry David Thoreau

A Vegetable Invented

"An onion can make people cry,

but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh."

--Will Rogers

Four Legs

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

--George Orwell, Animal Farm

City Life

"Millions of people being lonesome together."

--Henry David Thoreau

A Comma

"This morning I took out a comma

and this afternoon I put it back again."

--Oscar Wilde

A New Day

"Finish each day and be done with it.... You have done what you could;

some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sabbatical Leave

I have an announcement which is rather bittersweet: I shall be taking sabbatical leave from And a Cat Named Ponzo next year. Had it not been for Ponzo's great assistance, support, and encouragement, I am afraid I would have been unable to post something every day--and that was only because I could schedule posts in advance.

I wish to thank everyone who visited my online journal. But now I am happy to inform you that I shall be putting And a Cat Named Ponzo into the capable paws of my wonderful assistant, Ponzo, who has decided to post one of his favorite quotations each month along with a different monthly photo of himself. On that note, I wish everyone a very happy 2011!