amor sacro e amor profano

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ~Will Rogers



It is easier to commit murder than to justify it. ~Aemilius Papinianus



Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray



I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. ~Thomas W. Higginson



We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa



This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson



I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)



The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind - a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. ~Woody Allen



The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore



I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ~Tagore



Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths. ~John Egerton



If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle



The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ~G.K. Chesterton



So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948



It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them. ~Rupert Hart-Davis



The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. ~Jessi Lane Adams



The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Without labor nothing prospers. ~Sophocles