amor hilton and chris hollywood

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich



Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836



I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. ~Henry David Thoreau



This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning. ~Old Vaudeville joke



With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb



Don't blame me. I voted with the majority. ~Author Unknown



When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ~Woody Allen



A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard



My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. ~Author Unknown



Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench. ~Author Unknown



You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ~P.J. O'Rourke, A Parliament of Whores



It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. ~James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm



The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck." ~Author Unknown



So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948



I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren



It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930



Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming." ~Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Minor Poems, Copa



The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow