amore psiche

Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields



There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen



Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ~Seven Wright



Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal



The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. ~James Thurber



I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. ~Woodrow Wilson



Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files



A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885



There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling



These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet



Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Mirror of Erised," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson



Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier



Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. ~Henry David Thoreau



Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri



Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. ~Frederic Bastiat



There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters... I could be their leader. ~Charlie Brown