quotas de la vida

Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! ~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)


After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy


America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. ~James T. Farrell


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo


Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll


The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley


The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, 1871


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown


True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King


Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years. ~Thomas S. Szasz


Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb


Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. ~Author Unknown


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo


Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the people. ~Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," 1884


Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller


I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb


I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France


Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. ~Matthew 12:12


An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. ~Bergen Evans, "A Tale of a Tub," The Natural History of Nonsense