Mably Sims Quotes & Sayings

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. — Bernard De Mandeville

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm. — Oscar Wilde

The moment when you find out when you shoot the pilot - getting the pilot is a small victory. You shoot the pilot, and when you get picked up, that's a huge victory right there. — Kevin Dillon

We should all be merely animals. As humans, there are miseries nothing can put us out of. — Paul Russell

There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again. — Michael Edwards

Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast,
it's no good living in the fucking past. — Mark Jackman

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people? — Gilles Duceppe

The wooing of those days was prompt and practical. There was no time for the gradual approaches of an idler and more conventional age. It is related of one Stout, one of the legendary Nimrods of Illinois, who was well and frequently married, that he had one unfailing formula of courtship. He always promised the ladies whose hearts he was besieging that "they should live in the timber where they could pick up their own firewood. — John Hay