love poems and pictures

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ~Eleanora Duse, Le Gaulois, 1922



History does not unfold: it piles up. ~Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth



God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem to have no sense of humor



The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought. ~Albert Pinkham Ryder



An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown



God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. ~Robert South, Sermons God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~Rebecca West



Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. ~George Saintsbury



Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker



Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown



By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series. ~Steve Rushin



Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~Voltaire



The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde



Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. ~Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992



Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. ~Author Unknown



Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. ~Terri Guillemets



So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ~Vincent Van Gogh



For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow