Fama e infâmia

Uma celebridade é alguém que é conhecido por muitas pessoas que tem o prazer de não conhecer.

H. L. Mencken

Boas festas

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

E pontos

É saudável de vez em quando colocar um ponto de interrogação nas coisas que há muito consideras garantidas.

Bertrand Russell

Digestão lenta

He wondered if he would kiss her and when he would kiss her and if she wanted to be kissed and if she were thinking of it, but she asked him what he would have to eat tonight at his hotel.
He said clam chowder. Thursday, he said, they always have clam chowder. Is that the way you know it's Thursday, she said, or is that the way you know it's clam chowder?

James Thurber (1894 - 1961), The Evenings at Seven

A beleza da vida

I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Nicholas Sparks

Coço, logo existo

Eu tenho uma filosofia simples: encher o que está vazio, esvaziar o que está cheio, coçar onde há comichão.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Melhor que muitos

The last time I was inside a woman was when I was inside the Statue of Liberty.

Woody Allen

Isto é verdade, não é só ingenuidade

É sempre mais fácil acreditar do que negar. As nossas mentes são naturalmente afirmativas.

John Burroughs