Smile for Today:

" I can't understand why I flunked American History. When I was a kid there was so little of it."

~ George Burns (1896 - 1996) American comedian, actor, writer.

Book Fair Lighthouse Festival Theatre ~ Port Dover

Book Fair at the Lighthouse Festival Theatre
Port Dover, Ontario
Norfolk Arts Co's Authors

This weekend: Nov. 27 - 28. Sat -- 10:00 - 5:00; Sun-- 12:00 - 4:00.

About thirty authors will be available to share their stories and to display the best Christmas gifts ever ~ BOOKS.

Local histories, novels, fiction, non-fiction. Engage an author in conversation. Discover the world of writing. See you there.

Christie Blatchford's HELPLESS.

Available at The Neat Little Bookshop while quantities last.

Without the Loss of a Syllable or Letter

"We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, time, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?~ Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English statesman, author, scientist.
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
~ Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) English essayist, poet.

"When others fail him, the wise man looks to the sure companionship of books." ~ Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) Scottish writer ~ famous for the "coloured" fairy books.

Quotations from Lines to Live By, Edited by Clinton T. Howell, Thomas Nelson Publishers 1972.

"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant and interesting." ~ Aldous Huxley

(Huxley d. Nov. 22, 1963, at the age of 69. English Writer (Brave New World)

"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Statesman and Prime Minister, Britain.

"At the going down of the sun... We will remember them."

Sunset on Lake Erie, Ontario. (For larger image, click on photo.)