Fabliau History Quotes & Sayings

In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere. — Paul-Ludwig Landsberg

There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority. — Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev

A mobile home with a flat tire is a home. — Demetri Martin

THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY — Terry Pratchett

Believe me, if you're a teenager, you're always in the damned woods. Literally, you're in the woods - probably too much you're in the woods. And metaphorically you're in the woods, in your life. — Jay Parini

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever. — M. Russell Ballard

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself. — James Genn

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan

Come through for others and they will come through for you. — Denis Waitley