Nothing is Perfect ~ Proverbs con't.

The best things may be abused.
Nothing so good but it might have been better.
The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley. (often go awry,  Robt. Burn's poem, "To a Mouse" 1786.)
There are spots even in the sun.
The best cloth may have a moth in it.
The best cart may overthrow.
No garden without its weeds.
No land without stones, or meat without bones.
No rose without a thorn.   (A commonplace of Elizabethan & 17th -cent. verse.)
Every light has its shadow.
No day so clear but has dark clouds.
There was never a good town but had a mire at one end of it.
Every path has a puddle.
It is a good tree that has neither knap nor gaw.  (knob, or blemish.)
It is a good horse that never stumbles.  (Sometimes with the rhyming line "And a good wife that never grumbles."

~ The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs

Nobody is Perfect ~  Proverbs on Imperfection

Every man has his faults.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
No man is infallible.
To err is human. (The proverb predates Pope's well-known line "To err is human:  to forgive, divine."  An essay on Criticism, 1711)
If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything. (First recorded in the early 20th century.)
Every man is mad on some point.
He rides sure that never fell.
He stands not surely that never slips.
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.  (Although the saying is often associated with Mr. Micawber in Dickens's David Copperfield (1850), there are several earlier citations.)
Arthur could not tame woman's tongue.  (A reference to King Arthur.)

Tomorrow:  Nothing is Perfect.

"If I had but one day left to live, I would plant a tree."  Martin Luther King

The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs, Second Edition, Rosalind Fergusson, Jonathan Law, 2000

 Yard Sale ~ Village-Wide Saturday 

Bookshop Window

July 21 Cayuga-on-The Grand

Come for the Fireman's Breakfast

at the firehall ~ followed by a Full Day of Activities

First Big Village-Wide Yard Sale

For Details on CayugaFest Weekend:  http://www.cayugafest.com/

Cayuga Fest ~ July 20 -21 
 Along the banks of the Grand

Lower Kinsmen Park ~ Ouse Street

Skateboarding

Lots of fun for all ages, activities start on Friday 7:00 p.m. with the MAIN STAGE ENTERTAINMENT in the lower Kinsmen Park on Ouse St. 


On Saturday, there will be events all day beginning with a town-wide yard sale and the fire fighter's breakfast 7:00 a.m. in the fire hall.

For details visit www.cayugafest.com or call 905-912-6641.  email:  cayugafest@hotmail.com  For yard sale details:  Sandy at 905-772-3304



Caledonia Author Suzanne Hurley

 Suzanne Hurley has published a new book, Nice Girls Can Win.  Suzanne is not new to publishing.  Her book, Never Ever, made the finals this year in the Epic Ebook Awards.  She also has a series of four mysteries to her credit.
We are looking forward to having Suzanne visit The Neat Little Bookshop.  Watch for fall Meet the Author events.

http://www.suzannemhurley.com/

Smile For Today ~

  The Wonders of Our World

Photo:  lbwalker

Author of the famous poem, "Footprints", Margaret Fishback Powers, suggests that it is never too early to start writing in a journal.  "As soon as a child can print, print one line a day," she advises.*

Reading:  Footprints, The True Story Behind The Poem That Inspired Millions,  Margaret Fishback Powers, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd., 1993

http://www.footprintspoem.ca/

*Interview with Maralee Dawn & Friends, July 14, 2012

Photo:  lbwalker James N. Allen Park, Haldimand