Emotions and Feelings

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The secret of being a bore … is to tell everything.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.

Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori

Ambo florentes aetatibus, Arcades ambo,

Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum

Hos successus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur. These success encourages: they can because they think they can.

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.

Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

of Truman Capote ’s death:

Il pleure dans mon coeur

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Laughter … the most civilized music in the world.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.