quotes about people
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. ~Woody Allen
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ~Oscar Wilde
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior
Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ~Milton Friedman We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ~Milton Friedman
I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked. ~Lambert Jeffries
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ~Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. ~Eugene Ionesco
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. ~George Herbert
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father." ~Ladies' Home Journal, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy
Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. ~Jack Handey