Mooiste Love Quotes & Sayings

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. — Freda Adler

When, at the end of their lives, most men look back they will find that they have lived throughout ad interim. They will be surprised to see that the very thing they allowed to slip by unappreciated and unenjoyed was just their life. And so a man, having been duped by hope, dances into the arms of death. — Irvin D. Yalom

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will. — William James

The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home. — J.R. Ward

She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone. — Megan Abbott

Old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled — Joseph Conrad

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! — Emile M. Cioran

In America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions. — David Lloyd George

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton

I remember thinking when the girls were born, first one and then the other, that I should have had sons and not daughters. I didn't feel up to daughters, I didn't know how they worked. I must have been afraid of hating them. With sons I would have known what to do. — Margaret Atwood

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. — Antony Beevor