amore del tropico

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde



Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb



I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation. ~Rev. Jerry Falwell



Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. ~Woodrow Wilson



Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series, 1844



It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. ~Cynthia E. Varnado



Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion



It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. ~Raymond Chandler



Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. ~Stephen Baker



Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. ~Bob Irwin



Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis



Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha



If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman



An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ~R. Baker



Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness



Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~Thomas Mann



Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. ~Bertrand Russell



This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Douglas Adams