amor verdadero

Venus favors the bold. ~Ovid



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



Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. ~Gerald Vaughan



The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. ~Author Unknown



Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. ~Laurens van der Post



The last birthday that's any good is 23. ~Andy Rooney



Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg



There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer



I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. ~Nancie J. Carmody



In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. ~Lenny Bruce



Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. ~Joseph W. Krutch U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990



Any man can hold a girl's hand, but only the elite can hold her feet. ~Author Unknown



The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale



It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb



The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith



People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. ~Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 16 February 1987



We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey