amor platonico

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. ~Susan Sontag


Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. ~Plato


Be alert! Accidents hurt. ~Author Unknown


If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis


Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. ~Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 1678


The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. ~Louis Simpson


Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~Thomas Szasz


When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? ~Pam Brown


Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855


There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. ~Gunter Grass


Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain


Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author Unknown


The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings


If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. ~H.G. Wells, Things to Come (the "film story"), Part III, adapted from his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, spoken by the character John Cabal (Thanks Bill!)


Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ~Wallace Stevens


I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. ~May Sarton


A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. ~O.A. Battista


Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. ~Author Unknown


God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr