amore de mori

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison



The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers and also the chains. ~Karl Marx, The Wisdom of Karl Marx



Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen



There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch



When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein



There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed



When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. ~Edie Cantor



Men are not people. We are disgustoids in human form. ~Coupling, "The Girl with Two Breasts," original airdate 9 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Jeff



The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. ~Thomas Carlyle



Fear cannot give us the adrenaline to push forward until we realize it is the fear in us that holds us back. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace



The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. ~Author Unknown



A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks, attributed



Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown



There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau



The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale



If I were a cat, what would make me purr? A pair of really comfortable blue jeans, and massages. ~Cinnamon Stomberger



I get my rocks off curling. ~Saying of the sport



What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone. ~Bias of Priene, Maxims



I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1952



If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. ~Author Unknown If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ~Author Unknown