el amor a dios

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ~Proverbs 27:6



A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. ~Andre Malraux



Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081



Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy



I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ~G.K. Chesterton



In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens



He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters. ~James I



If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. ~Jean Cocteau



Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ~The Epic of Gilgamesh



Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921



Man - a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ~Alexander Hamilton



When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant



Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872



There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. ~Blaise Pascal



The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. ~Author Unknown



Life goes faster on protein. ~Martin H. Fischer



Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown