odio y amor

It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13



Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige



The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. ~George Deukmejian The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering



War is fear cloaked in courage. ~William Westmoreland



God's illumined promise. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (rainbow)



Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~Leo Rosten



A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. ~Jeremy Taylor



Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb



The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. ~Natalie Wood



You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones



A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world! ~James Oppenheim



Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada



Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~Christian Nevell Bovee



Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown



Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. ~From a Washington Post reader submission word contest



My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~Author Unknown



A book that is shut is but a block. ~Thomas Fuller



I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. ~John Waters



Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~Norman Podhoretz



The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. ~Lu Tung, "Tea-Drinking"