A black cat crossing…
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. – Groucho Marx [Julius Henry Marx] (1890 – 1977) (Image by Eszter Miller from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »




![IMAGE: Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. [Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mark-twain-2914114_640_addict-84430_640-200x133.jpg)

![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)


![IMAGE: Do not pass judgment, that you may not be judged; for the way you judge you will be judged and with what yardstick you measure you will be measured. But why notice the splinter in your brother's eye without taking notice of the beam in your own eye? [Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sculpture-3408348_640-100x66.jpg)


