amor de dios

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ~James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays



First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams



Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. ~Duane Michals



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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



My sons think it's a fireman's pole, but I forgot to cut a hole through the ground into the kitchen. ~Pamela Anderson



The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923



My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ~Robert A. Stern



Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown



A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence. ~Cathy Crimmins



I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? ~Thomas Jefferson



All sports are games of inches. ~Dick Ritger



What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ~Augustus Saint-Gaudens



No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~George Jean Nathan



I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth



A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. ~Jeremy Taylor



May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams



Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge



One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau



Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~Mac McCleary