the amorphophallus titanum

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~Ben Jonson



For some moments in life there are no words. ~David Seltzer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory



There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion. ~Vladimir Nabokov



We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take. ~Barack Obama, 2007 Dec 27, Des Moines, Iowa



"Heat, ma�am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones." ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland�s Memoir (It's actually not about Arizona, but it fits!)



To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness



It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper



It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. ~Harold Geneen



Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. ~Deuteronomy 32:15



Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark



My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. ~Thomas Fuller



If you need a new process and don't install it, you pay for it without getting it. ~Ken Stork



A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce, Ulysses



You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter



War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. ~Robert Hall



The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985



That the very next day I would no longer possess those swooning eyes, those devouring lips, the nightly renewed miracle of that body with its divine contours and savage embraces; and, after long spasms as powerful as sin and as deep as death.... ~"The Mission," Chapter 8



Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown