poemas de un amor imposible

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash



Sometimes, in the grip of a sudden poetic mood, I buried myself in a God-forsaken corner of the country, and in the presence of nature aspired to purity, silence and moral rehabilitation which, alas! never lasted very long. ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ~Jean Rostand



I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot



It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ~Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775



If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed



As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979



Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill



I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business... ~I Thessalonians 4:11



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



The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. ~Dorothy Dix



Light, God's eldest daughter... ~Thomas Fuller



Flies spread disease - keep yours zipped. ~Author Unknown



Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. ~Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!



All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. ~S.J. Perelman, Acres and Pains, 1951



A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie



It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants. ~Author Unknown



Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker