There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.
The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.
I beg you help me in angelic charity Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!
Has father from HeavenSent the Angel to me?
No more can this Angel teach her Yet this guiding wing shall not forsake
Pity that child who was born near Rouen His only crime to arrive deformed.
In fine a life of good or evil the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
Evil influence is like a nicotine patch you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
If you cannot judge a book by its cover surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?
Stay away from the underground lake I implore The Siren will see you are heard of no more.
... far be it from a Frenchman to interfere with love.
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
Art is in the eye of the beholder and everyone will have their own interpretation.
Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.
(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.
Love like everything else in life should be a discovery an adventure and like most adventures you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven it intensifies.
Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
It was only high school after all definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
Poor God how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
Ah the magic of music with it all things are possible.
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration no less!
If there are damned souls in Hell it is because men blind themselves.
The show must go on and so must The Book.
Love like Fortune favours the bold.
a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
Sometimes the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.
Righteous I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.
If we danced and shared music we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.
He offered his love ... she could not bother She gives her love to the other! The other!
Monsieur you must be mad!Box Five can never be hadFor money love or the world ...
You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.
A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.
That's it. Love makes us all strong.
... it's a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists no more than God has
If on thoughts of death we are fed Thus a coffin became my bed.
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers But found in the soul within.
The gates of Hell are terrible to behold are they not?
It's not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf perhaps it's the most patriotic thing we can do.
Love is supposed to be based on trust and trust on love it's something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.
Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?
Well if it can be thought it can be done a problem can be overcome
Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.
If a man cannot serve two masters neither can Christianity or several thousand of them as the case may be.
... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped especially when he prides himself on his sagacity and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
There are some things you can't learn at any university except for one the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
Make your lives a masterpiece you only get one canvas.
A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry.
... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
Speed is not always a constituent to great work the process of creation should be given time and thought.
They lived off each other's hypocrisy fuelling a worthless market of trash.
If that's the case waiter please bring me another piece of cake " Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table "I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?
Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers..
You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.
There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!
Since art is considered a noble field art should be used to promote all that is good and noble and in a noble fashion.
You know how creative people are we have to try everything until we find our niche.
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
... an artist should paint from the heart and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work in my opinion and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.
The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.
When in doubt throw doubt out and have a little faith....
You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say 'Well done.
It's the unknown that draws people.
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth or would he ever? Certainly not!
Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?
If Erik existed and lived life in despair We wish him to know we are here and we care.
...they say if you don't vote you get the government you deserve and if you do you never get the results you expected.
God Is Lucifer is a devil and there is a Hell.
Yet beauty cannot be forgotten Eternal Wisdom can never die ...
To be or not to be: what a question!
If you are what you eat you are what you see and hear.
If you want to keep people happy just keep the food and entertainment rolling.
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
Music helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb That is my abodeCellars downFar belowUnder the ground ...
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
... true evil needs no reason to exist it simply is and feeds upon itself.
You cannot hinder someone's free will that's the first law of the Universe no matter what the decision.
You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
Sublime wonders lie in store I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom an empirewith more grandeur than before ...
I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.
So it's true when all is said and done grief is the price we pay for love.
Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.
how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
Heaven is not a republic.
... insanity is never reasonable.
By now with all our modern technology there should be no poverty left on earth.
There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.
The Scorpion?The Grasshopper?Which way will she go?
Now Leroux what think youOf this twist to the story?
There are many forms of tyrants but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.