amore ti amo

Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. ~Virgil



Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence. ~Author Unknown



A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world! ~James Oppenheim



It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ~Jessamyn West It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. ~Denis Diderot



People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. ~Charlotte Gray



Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ~Adlai Stevenson



God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886



Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain, autobiography, 1904 (but, as yet no actual record of this under Disraeli's authorship)



One does what one is; one becomes what one does. ~Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa



A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown



You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. ~Martin Luther



In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ~Richard Bach



Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed



True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)



Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie



No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras (Thanks, Jim)



I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell



I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. ~Mark Twain



Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ~H.L. Mencken