amor mio te amo

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)



How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take? ~Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845



There may be dust in my house but there isn't any on me. ~Author Unknown



Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. ~Jean de La Bruyere, Les Caracteres, 1688



Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity? ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. ~Elizabeth Wilson



Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln



Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Terri Guillemets



Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben



In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity



If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? ~Mark Twain



The surest way to be alone is to get married. ~Gloria Steinem



As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. ~Erma Bombeck



Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car. ~Author Unknown



Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. ~Gene Perret



It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ~Lewis Grizzard



Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ~Laurence J. Peter