Purified For Hell - Dark Poetry and Dark Poets - Webmistress "Ninphette"'s personal site, devoted to Dark Poetry. The site seeks submissions and features established Poets alongside more contemporary songwriters.
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Personal Pages There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Personal Pages
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Personal Pages With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Personal Pages
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Personal Pages Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Personal Pages
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Personal Pages "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Personal Pages
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Personal Pages
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Personal Pages Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal Pages
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Personal Pages The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Personal Pages
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? My other wife is beautiful. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal Pages
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Personal Pages The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Personal Pages
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Personal Pages A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Personal Pages
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Personal Pages "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Personal Pages
