“Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.”
William Shakespeare
Posted by azhttp on December 12, 2007
“Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.”
William Shakespeare
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Posted by azhttp on November 11, 2007
This [letter] would not be so long, had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal 1632-1662 – Lettres Provinciales
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Posted by personalpolitics on November 16, 2006
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything.
–Oscar Wilde
I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. ‘Don’t complain about growing old – many, many people do not have that privilege.’
–Earl Warren
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Posted by personalpolitics on October 27, 2006
Speak no evil of an absent friend. (Non male loquare absenti amico.)
–Plautus
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
–Richard Hilles
The pain without the peace of death.
–Plautus, on absence
The absent are as good as dead.
–Latin Proverb
The absent and the dead have no friends.
–Spanish Proverb
Absence makes the heart go wander.
–Unknown
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