sad quotes about life and love

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale



The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program. ~Frederick Brooks



Needlepoint: the delicious art of filling in holes with wool. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus



That the very next day I would no longer possess those swooning eyes, those devouring lips, the nightly renewed miracle of that body with its divine contours and savage embraces; and, after long spasms as powerful as sin and as deep as death.... ~"The Mission," Chapter 8



So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. ~Jason Love



The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." ~Karen Williams



Overcast with drizzles - O! we neurotics welcome the riddance of that pesky sunshine. ~Terri Guillemets



A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend. ~Author Unknown



I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. ~Raymond Chandler



It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692



Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~Lois Wyse



Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Short A: Probably not.



Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~Jules Renard



Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. ~William James



Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears. ~Bobby Jones



Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ~Author unknown, from New Yorker, "Talk of the Town"



Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after. ~Joyce Brothers



No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing