verano de amor

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord



Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. ~Martin H. Fischer



Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale



They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. ~Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, "Illiteratus princeps"



Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ~John G. Pollard



Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. ~The Talmud



Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ~William Lloyd Garrison



No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next step. ~Author Unknown



Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913



Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



By night, an atheist half believes in God. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts



Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend



Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.... ~Amy Johnson



There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy



Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown



Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt



Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar



One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. ~Jack Handey One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com