mensajes de amor y amistad

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ~Edward Roscoe Murrow, 31 December 1955



A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown



Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. ~Alistair Cooke



It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9



The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~Bill Vaughn



Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown



Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960



Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that. ~Pete Davies



"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did." ~J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007



Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~Ovid



Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln



Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown



Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology



We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes. ~Anne C. Weisberg, Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know, 1994



I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. ~John Waters, quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon Redux, compiled & edited by Jon Winokur, 1992



I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain



If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt



A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Talmud



A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho