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Saint Valentines Day

Saint Valentines Day. Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January. Jim Gaffigan I claim there ain’t Another Saint As great as Valentine. Ogden Nash If you are really interested in this …

Best quotes on love

Best quotes on love. Faith is a mystery, love is a mystery, death is a mystery! However, I have never liked mysteries. Carl William Brown Teach only love for that is what …

Aphorisms on Love

Aphorisms on love. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) You can give without loving, but you cannot love …

Quotes about seduction

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. Natalie Clifford Barney The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, ‘Gee, you are …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Some people are right, you don't need to be educated to vegetate. Carl William Brown

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes and aphorisms on love

Italy in brief

Short dictionary of literary terms

Aforismi volume quarto

Best quotes on books

Daimonology-synthetic-principles

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

The World of English, its language, its culture, its varieties, its future, and its infinite possibilities of communication in our small unique world.
Carl William Brown

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown