de amor

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~Le Duc de Levis, Memoires



Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. ~Anne Gibbons



Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anais Nin, Diary, 1969



Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. ~Author Unknown



Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ~Fred Allen



In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour. ~Author Unknown



A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. ~Winston Churchill



The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis



The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner



A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. ~Author Unknown



None are so blind as those who will not see. ~Author Unknown



I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. ~Merri Brownworth



Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment. ~Kevin Andrews and Warren Miller, Extreme Skiing



We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ~Al Attles, on Nate Archibald



If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~Pearl S. Buck



Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson



For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000



The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ~Anatole France



The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~Albert Einstein



Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. ~Author Unknown