amore e morte

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford


Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. ~Wallace Stevens, 1916


A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. ~Allan Beck


When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke


The slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless "We Shelter You America." The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them... from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right. ~Fred Woodworth, Rent: An Injustice


Everything in life is luck. ~Donald Trump


Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails. ~Emma Goldman


I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. ~Robert A. Heinlein


This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson


I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants. ~Dave Beard


The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton


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Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? ~From the television show Boston Common


Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. ~Robinson Jeffers


Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact. ~Martin H. Fischer


One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres


If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. ~Stephan Girard


Saying: a usually pithy and familiar statement expressing an observation or principle generally accepted as wise or true.