@edgarblythe,
heck, they used to give me a free bible every time I stayed in a motel.
not sure why they quit that...
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
-- Bertrand Russell
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
- Dale Carnegie
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
@edgarblythe,
Pudd'nhead is a good name for somebody saying that.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
-- Albert Einstein
@Lustig Andrei,
He was flattering himself into thinking he still had a romantic vestige.
@Lustig Andrei,
Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you’re holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you’re lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.
- Kennedy Kasares
If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
– Anonymous
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- George Santayana
@timur,
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
- Jack Welch
“Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?”
― Maya Banks
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
- Anais Nin
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light."
~Laurens van der Post
"Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion."
Stendhal.
“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”
― Voltaire, Candide
