amore and psyche

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer



Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. ~Adriano Tilgher



Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord.



A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head. ~Benjamin Disraeli



A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde



Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ~Herbert Agar



There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. ~Jim Fiebig



Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun



...when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny's. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23



The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville, White Jacket



The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ~Peter F. Drucker



If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~Gene Tunney



When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches. ~John Andrew Holmes



We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ~William Hazlitt



The only cure for writer's block is insomnia. ~Merit Antares



The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~Author unknown, but probably a secretary!



Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~Author Unknown



We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893



It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. ~Vin Scully