The past is immortalized;

that is to say, it is dead;

and death is the root

of all godliness

and all abiding significance.

(Disorder and early sorrow, Thomas Mann)

“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet.

Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”

(Socrates)

(art by Maria Merabyan)

"You may fool all the people some of the time;

you can even fool some of the people all the time;

but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

(?)

"I don't need to get a life.

I'm a gamer,

I have lots of lives."

(art by 3DO)

"If God had wanted man to play football,

he wouldn't have given us arms." 

(Mike Ditka)

"When night falls

She cloaks the world

In impenetrable darkness

A chill rises

From the soil

And contaminates the air

Suddenly...

Life has new meaning."

(art by Jurgen Heckel)

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is

that they always see the past better than it was,

the present worse than it is,

and the future less resolved than it will be"

(Marcel Pagnol)

(art by Christophe Luxereau)