love and time quotes
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The big dispute between the government and Microsoft concerns the Internet "browser," which is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. As you can imagine, the potential market for this service is huge, so Microsoft would like you to use its browser, and not somebody else's. ~Dave Barry, 1998
Our genes make us immortal. ~The Secret of Life, PBS
The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant is alone enough to upset Darwin. ~Henry Adams, Education, 1907
Las Vegas - my favorite desert mirage. ~Val Saintsbury
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner
Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. ~Author Unknown
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ~Honore de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage
Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems. ~Helen M. Winslow
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. ~Sean O'Casey
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ~Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in Liberty and the Great Libertarians
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. ~Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ~Henry Miller
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide Briand
The end of labor is to gain leisure. ~Aristotle
Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant. ~Planned Parenthood advertisement
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. ~Karl Marx, Capital, 1867