amor and psyche

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ~Jerome K. Jerome



Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne



I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945



He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ~Oscar Wilde



The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. ~Kuan Yin



Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us. ~Edmund Arthur Helps



Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. ~Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship



History is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart. ~Arthur Bestor



The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. ~Oliver Herford



I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942 I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942



You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. ~Local Saying



Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley



A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck. ~Author Unknown



To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley



A library is thought in cold storage. ~Herbert Samuel



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The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? ~Helen Rowland



In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris



Please don't feed the dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown