camila amor eterno

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons



Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980



A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. ~Osbert Sitwell



Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. ~William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1601



There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. ~Art Buchwald



The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919



As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~Oscar Wilde



One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana



Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ~Jeff Daly



He that is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine



Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~Le Duc de Levis, Memoires



More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports



I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898



The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964



There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer



Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~H.L. Mencken Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ~Sydney J. Harris



Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ~Alexander Chase, "Perspectives," 1966



A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart



It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. ~Karl Popper, Unended Quest



Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner