amor und psyche

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. ~Hubert H. Humphrey



As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game



I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy - make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls. ~John Kerry



Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ~Pamela Vaull Starr



Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian. ~Fran Lebowitz



I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock



A waist is a terrible thing to mind. ~Tom Wilson



The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930



Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization. ~Anonymous email sig line



Quote A: �Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.� ~Terri Guillemets



My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings



I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman



Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. ~Matthew 23:27



We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks



With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ~Eric Hoffer



Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~Yves Saint Laurent



From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. ~George Boas