amor nicholai hilton

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ~Voltaire



It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bunuel



A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. ~Proverbs 29:11



They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all. ~Clair J. Clark, letter to wife, March 1944



As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. ~Author Unknown



I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent." ~Waite Hoyt



We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey



Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office. ~Author Unknown



Sexism is a social disease. ~Author Unknown



Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small. ~Richard Pattis



He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius



Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day. ~Carrie Latet



The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963



A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson



The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ~Hannah Whitall Smith



We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America. ~Val Saintsbury



Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food. ~Hippocrates