Meretrix Latin Quotes & Sayings

She stuffed in more waffles, and thought if every day started off with sex and waffles, people would maybe be less inclined to kill each other. — J.D. Robb

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldn't be at one and the same time - I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all. — Tom Stoppard

It's good tying the sack before it be full. — George Herbert

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die. — Farley Mowat

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. — Douglas Adams

Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night — Richard G. Lillard

If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words 'if only'. — Stephen Richards

Counterfeits of the past, under new names, may easily be mistaken for the future. The past, that ghostly traveler, is liable to forge his papers. We must be wary of the trap. The past has a face which is superstition, and a mask, which is hypocrisy. We must expose the face and tear off the mask. — Victor Hugo

I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti) — Agatha Christie

I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me. — Henry Fonda

Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch. — Ogden Nash