o amor acontece

And what Thou art may never be destroyed. ~Emily Bronte


Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ~H.L. Mencken


When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein


There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. ~David G. Myers, Social Psychology


"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. ~Joan Rivers


A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou


Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ~Alice Childress


Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb


In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ~Honore de Balzac


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost


You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ~Author Unknown


All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~Richard Avedon


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet


The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965


I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990


No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ~Desiderius Erasmus


You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762


My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ~Pablo Picasso


Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne