amor eterno camila

He was one of the few great rulers whose wisdom increased with his power, and whose spirit grew gentler and tenderer as his triumphs were multiplied. ~James A. Garfield



We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ~John Locke



The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook, 1956



What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. ~Barbara Jordan



Every true genius is bound to be naive. ~J.C.F. von Schiller



More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. ~Rudyard Kipling



Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason



Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595



What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown



The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal



I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. ~Will Rogers



All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! ~Charlotte M. Yonge



The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ~Albert Schweitzer, Novel Peace Prize address, "The Problem of Peace in the World Today"



Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her. ~Author Unknown



A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverb



A hard man is good to find. ~Mae West



No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln



If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dogen



No one wants advice - only corroboration. ~John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent