amor sincero

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ~Bennett Cerf



The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953



The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. ~Edgar Saltus, The Philosophy of Disenchantment



All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Jean-Luc Picard, Stardate 42823.2



Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship," Essays, 1841



People never notice anything. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2



Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull



Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~Samuel Lichtenberg



A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. ~Lewis Mumford



Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~Voltaire



We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are. ~Author Unknown



Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau



I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives. ~Edward F. Croker



One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh



Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod



Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. ~Mark Epstein



Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. ~L.L. Hendren