mensajes de amor y amistad

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~Oscar Wilde



She was part of that generation who grew up during the Depression. But the Depression to her was like a trip to Six Flags. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "The Sopranos," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. ~Erma Bombeck



Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin



There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt



Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. ~Malcolm X



Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison



Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? ~Jason Love



You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~James Madison



A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. (Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.) ~Alanus de Insulis, Parabolae, c.1280, later used by Shakespeare and others as "All that glisters is not gold." (see notes at bartleby.com), now commonly misphrased as "glitters"



To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825



Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. ~Jim Davis



I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. ~Sam Snead, about golf



Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans 12:21



The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.... ~Thomas De Quincey



I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. ~M.M. Coady



Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. ~Eugene Scott