laksa kedah

It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated



Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. Housman



A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. ~Carl G. Jung



There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber



A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown



It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903



A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter



'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron



It proves nothing. Must things be proved in order to be painful or pleasant? They need only be felt. ~"The Manuscript"



A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. ~Martin H. Fischer



I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~Leo Buscaglia



The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation... such is the nature of art. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward



We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small. ~Richard Pattis



To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898



The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld