"Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." - Francis Bacon
"The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit." - Samuel Johnson
Seen on a bumper sticker on my way home from work: "Honk if you love Jesus. Text & drive if you want to see Him."
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." : Voltaire
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow
The OPTIMIST believes: "Love is in the air." The PESSIMIST replies: "I can't see it." To which the REALIST says: "That's because the wind is blowing in the other direction." ~ a friend
"If I'm more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father…then you got to look at yourself as a parent." O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson.
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow
Two of my favourites... "No-one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid" and "The truth is seldom pure and never simple" - Oscar Wilde
"Boy these conservatives are really something aren't they? They are all in favor of the unborn, they will do anything for the unborn.....But once you're born, you're on your own!!" "Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach MILITARY AGE. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they were looking for. Conservatives want LIVE babies so they can raise them to be DEAD soldiers!" -George Carlin
Hay tres cosas que el ser humano necesita en su vida: alguien a quien amar, algo que hacer y una esperanza para el futuro - painted on a random wall in the gothic quarter of Barcelona, Espana (There are 3 things a person needs in their lives; someone to love, something to do, and hope for the future.) Live fearlessly, even if just for a few minutes at a time. And.... "The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded." -Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
