Mat Riaux Bonhomme Quotes & Sayings

All that I can say is, that the wisest and best men in all ages had agreed in giving the preference, very greatly, to the pleasures of intellect; and that my own experience completely confirmed the truth of their decisions; that I had found sensual pleasures vain, transient, and continually attended with tedium and disgust; but that intellectual pleasures appeared to me ever fresh and young, filled up all my hours satisfactorily, gave a new zest to life, and diffused a lasting serenity over my mind — Thomas Robert Malthus

To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times. — Frederick Lenz

He really didn't like doing this to her, he was truly put off by the idea of binding such a free spirit. But — Erica Stevens

The mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. — Edward Clodd

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.
— Robert B. Parker

I'm so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
- Andrew Parrish — J.A. Redmerski

The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us. — Franz Kafka

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. — Socrates

Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently. — H.G.Wells

A novel is born several times and dies several times, before it takes its final life form. — Manjiri Prabhu

My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves. — E.L. James

Ruark held the door open for her to pass through. "The first I cannot deny, Shanna, for then I did not know of you. But you are my only love and shall remain for as long as I live." His eyes were serious and seemed to probe her being. "I — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.' — Zig Ziglar

It's not that you expect anything in particular from this particular book. You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. — Italo Calvino

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar