metamorphosis in art

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. ~Fanny Fern



I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown



You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. ~Author Unknown



For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ~I Timothy 6:10



I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. ~Lyndon B. Johnson



Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time. ~A.L. Rowse, The Use of History



Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honore de Balzac



For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ~Romans 7:19



A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951



He takes away my breath! He makes me reel!



Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ~B.F.Skinner



I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days. ~Totie Fields



You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tobasco. ~Bruce Bye



Among all the sights of the docks, the noble truck-horses are not the least striking to a stranger. They are large and powerful brutes, with such sleek and glossy coats, that they look as if brushed and put on by a valet every morning. They march with a slow and stately step, lifting their ponderous hoofs like royal Siam elephants. Thou shalt not lay stripes upon these Roman citizens; for their docility is such, they are guided without rein or lash; they go or come, halt or march on, at a whisper. So grave, dignified, gentlemanly, and courteous did these fine truck-horses look - so full of calm intelligence and sagacity, that often I endeavored to get into conversation with them, as they stood in contemplative attitudes while their loads were preparing. But all I could get from them was the mere recognition of a friendly neigh; though I would stake much upon it that, could I have spoken in their language, I would have derived from them a good deal of valuable information touching the docks, where they passed the whole of their dignified lives. ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849



If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ~C.S. Lewis



If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. ~Jack Nicholson



What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln



I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974, BQ



This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. ~Richard Burton