paris at night poem

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas � Kempis



What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. ~Author Unknown What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1



Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. ~George Sheehan



Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb



Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates



When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. ~Astrid Alauda



Children have more need of models than of critics. ~Carolyn Coats, Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear



And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. ~I Timothy 5:13



Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon



I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity. ~Erkki Melartin



Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline



Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. ~William McFee, Casuals of the Sea, 1916



The Bible is literature, not dogma. ~George Santayana



The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard



I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols



Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. ~Author Unknown



We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media



Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams