Cordoves The Clown Quotes & Sayings

Adult males in modern society who feel fulfilled in giving concern and tuition to boys and youths are portrayed as being interested only in boys' bodies (though this may be a small part of the attraction) and are spurned and traduced as sexual monsters. I believe we reap the harvest of ours hysterical and homophobia today in juvenile crime, drug use and delinquency. Consider the ethical training which boys and youths gained through shudo in Japan or in the system in Classical Greece, the tuition in manners, customs and humanity, the degree of civilised values imparted to them, the ideas of loyalty, honour and truthfulness; this highly personalised education with love and sensuality at its centre must be far more effective than any other. We in the West are bigoted fools to dismiss it with such horror. — Colin Spencer

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool. — Steve Winwood

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense. — Reginald Fessenden

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. — Ken Kesey

Leda: 'I would rather become an international adventuress and bring down kings and emperors.'

Maxim: 'But this is the age of republics and democracies. It's much harder to seduce a committee. — Michael Moorcock

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who is a god? A god is one who has learned the secret of being happy with the whole universe, with every flower and with every river and with every rock and every star; who has become one with this continuous eternal celebration; who celebrates, who doesn't bother whose celebration this is. And wherever there is a celebration, he participates. — Rajneesh

The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost. — Ted Cruz

Fame is a jealous mistress
And will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains. — Bernard DeVoto

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. — Fred Allen

It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never. — Yann Martel

When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens. We become so entangled in our own thoughts and emotions that we lose contact with the bigger picture. — Culadasa