But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.
Always store beer in a dark place.
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming.
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
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