Get your head together" and "get your head out of your a$$" represent good advice - the head is pretty important to most of us. I am reminded of this as I note that it was on this day in 1536 that Anne Boleyn, second wife to King Henry VIII, lost hers following a legal travesty marked by coerced testimony (i.e. torture) that can be best described as unconvincing.

Today's Quotes:
     
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
     - Caryn Leschen

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
     - Max L. Forman

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
     - Mignon McLaughlin

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
     - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 - 1919

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
     - Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
     - Herman Melville, 1819 - 1891