amor y amistad poemas

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ~Jean Rhys



You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden



You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inegalite parmi les hommes, 1755



Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora. ~Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com



I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance. ~Steven Wright



In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. ~Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, 1969



There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb



The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. ~Author Unknown



Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October�s days. ~Author Unknown



The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott



That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. ~Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, "The Good Fight"



Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. ~Frank A. Clark



For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown



Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources. ~W.H. Carothers



First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey



What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception. ~George Bernard Shaw



Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown