amor es... kim casali

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. ~Prince de Ligne



We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown



Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit. ~Edward Tivnan



Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown



A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988



I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. ~Author Unknown



Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960



You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. ~Booker T. Washington



Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! ~Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II



That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980



No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~Channing Pollock



Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore



A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus



Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D�haese



The devil... seldom leads people astray anymore, finding it easier to just follow along in their footsteps. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Schaffer



Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ~James Thurber Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. ~John Acton



The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich