June 2011
128 posts
“You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail”
– Louis L’Amour
“”The woman who is chic is always a little different. Not different in being...”
– Emily Post
“Pour bien aimer une vivante,
il faut l’aimer comme si
elle devait mourir...”
– Proverbe Arabe translated:
“To fully love the living,
better love them
as if they were to die tomorrow”
“Too much of anything is bad,
but too much champagne is just right.”
– Mark Twain
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of.
If you find that you’re not,
I hope...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rules for My Unborn Son →
The always charming F.E. Castleberry shares with us Walker Lamond’s lovely
‘Rules For My Unborn Son.’
Boys need rules. One man’s instructions for raising a thoughtful, adventurous, honest, hardworking, self-reliant, well-dressed, well-read, well-mannered young gentleman.
“Come live in my heart,
and pay no rent.”
– Samuel Lover
“And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you...”
– Kahlil Gibran
lessons in lovely, number two
Always start your correspondence on the first page visible when you open a foldable card, such as right of the fold ~ That way the recipient opens the note and is drawn straight to the salutation.
“You know what charm is: A way of getting the answer ‘yes’ with out...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall ~
From Elaine Sciolino’s La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life 