amor mio

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy



The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman



The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan



Chiasmus: figure of speech in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; the two clauses display inverted parallelism. The elements of a simple chiasmus are often labelled in the form A B B A, where the letters correspond to grammar, words, or meaning. In modern day, chiasmus is often used synonymously with antimetabole but in the classical sense of the word, chiasmus does not repeat the same words. Example: "By day the frolic, and the dance by night." ~Samuel Johnson



Music's the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan



An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb



Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. ~Heywood Hale Broun



Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke



We are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne



Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. ~Carol Saline



A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ~Joseph Campbell



Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor



Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. ~Edward Abbey



Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to. ~Richard Harris Barham



That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places. ~Bucky Waters, on Tom Hammonds



He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961



Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes



Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. ~William Penn



Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990