amore pacific logo

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ~Henry Beston



What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps? ~Author Unknown



The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ~John Ruskin



There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette



I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999



Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. ~Louis Celine, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932



Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon



Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves. ~Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man



Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned on: he or she misses the point, and spoils the show. ~David Cort



It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett



Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960



Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy



Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat. ~Martin H. Fischer



Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. ~Sarah Vowell



My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money. ~Joe Weinstein



It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ~Jerome K. Jerome



We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. ~Samuel Johnson



The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. ~Thurgood Marshall