mensajes de amor

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish. ~Fred Barling, "Humorscope"



A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. ~Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970



Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850



Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. ~Author Unknown



The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ~Albert Schweitzer



Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring



A woman is as young as her knees. ~Mary Quant



The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger



All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature



If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets



Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith



I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. ~Author Unknown



The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis



The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ~Author Unknown



Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg



Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~Bill Veeck



God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. ~Henry Ward Beecher



I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com