Quote of the Day for 2016-08-29

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing."

— Paul the Apostle (cira 5-67 CE) First letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13 (circa 53-57 CE) translation from the English Revised Version (1881)

The Siege of Acre by Dominique Papety (circa 1840)

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-18

"My kisses are as light as fairy midges / That on calm evenings skim the crystal lake. / Those of your man would plough such ruts and ridges / As lumbering carts or tearing coulters make."

— Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) "Femmes Damnées" from Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) Translated by Roy Campbell in Poems of Baudelaire (1952)

Le Sommeil by Gustave Courbet (1866)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-25

"Do you really think one can be truly loving when one is short of bread?"

— Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763) Manon Lescaut, part 1 (1731)

Harald Paulsen and Roma Bahn from act 2 of The Threepenny Opera in Berlin (1928)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-16

"The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

— Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Notebooks, "Morals"

The HAL-9000 computer being interviewed in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-06

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self—in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

— Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) The Women, act 1, scene 3

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt (1907)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-27

"Ambition is like love, impatient / Both of delays and rivals."

— John Denham (1614-1669) The Sophy, act 2, scene 1

Adriana Lima modeling a $2 million bra for Victoria's Secret (October 2010)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-23

"With love for mankind and hatred of sins."

— St. Augustine (354-430) Epistle CCXI, Opera Omnia

Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice (1988)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-11

"So, we'll go no more a roving / So late into the night, / Though the heart be still as loving, / And the moon be still as bright."

— Lord Byron (1788-1824) "So, We'll Go No More A Roving," Letter to Thomas Moore, February 28, 1817

Two Manhattans by Nigel Van Wieck (1989)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-02

"Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."

— Evan Esar (1899-1995) Esar's Comic Dictionary

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio at Chasen's restaurant (June 26, 1953)

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-23

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

— French proverb

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal at Katz's Delicatessen in When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-05

"No one can worship his God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."

— Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Speech before the Economic Club at the Hotel Astor in New York City, May 23, 1912

Great Famine memorial by Rowan Gillespie in Dublin (Photograph by Rick Munish)