Lasciva Que Quotes & Sayings

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly — Marion Zimmer Bradley

When I remember something which I had,
But which is gone, and I must do without,
I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,
Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout;
It makes me sigh to think on it,
but yet
My days will not be better days, should I forget. — Jean Ingelow

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. — P. J. O'Rourke

Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth. — Kent Allan Rees

My cradle
was a shoe. — W.S. Merwin

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy ... all the things that humans have. — Bob Brookmeyer

All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used to say, it is an urgent necessity to distinguish between the map and the territory and, he might have added, between the flag and the country. — Alan W. Watts

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.] — Horace

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart! — Luc De Clapiers