truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 7 February 2007 10:42 am

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 7 February 2007 10:55 am

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 7 February 2007 3:31 pm

Slavonic is God's just punishment on those who do not speak Russian. With Greek, the jury is out.
Anonymous

PS: It's also a punishment on those who do speak Russian!!!... still giggling..Katya

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 8 February 2007 7:55 am

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 8 February 2007 7:56 am

A torn jacket is soon mended;
but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 8 February 2007 7:57 am

Ah! what would the world be to us
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 8 February 2007 7:58 am

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow