Month: March 2005

Spammers, it seems, have become more literate. They’ve moved beyond random assemblages of words designed just to get through filters, to whole phrases, and now, to whole emails of phrases. I assume the point is to get you to click on one of the links included in the text, or maybe just view the images that probably automatically load in most people’s email clients, so that they can see which addresses are being read. Gmail doesn’t load the images, and of course I don’t click on the links, so I don’t know for sure. Maybe they’re selling the meaning of life and I’ll never know because I think it’s spam.

But anyway, I kind of like this new breed. It doesn’t leave as much room to the imagination, but I enjoyed some of these quotes. It’s like getting daily inspiration emails.

Bis moaje
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Successful people are simply those with success habits. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.

Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea. Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.No man is free who is not a master of himself.So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. Authority is never without hate.omelet