Saikaku Quotes & Sayings

I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words... — Lily King

And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond. — Ihara Saikaku

People love being scared, even for long periods of time. — Jason Blum

It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things. — Elizabeth Lesser

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I borrow moonlight for this journey of a million miles. — Saikaku Ihara

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty. — Ihara Saikaku

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there. — Ihara Saikaku

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living. — Ihara Saikaku

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave. — Agatha Christie

How did the court feel empowered to put new limits on the settled law of Meyer-Pierce and give public schools the power to override parents on teaching about sex? Simple. The three liberal judges based their decision on "our evolving understanding of the nature of our Constitution." Liberal judges have no shame in proclaiming their belief that our written Constitution is "evolving." In this case, the judges bragged that the Constitution has evolved to create the right to abortion, and then ruled that the evolving Constitution takes sex education away from parents and puts it "within the state's authority as parens patriae." "The country as parent." That's Obama's view of our future. — Phyllis Schlafly

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history. — Robert Dallek

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors. — Ihara Saikaku

It's not about what you have, it's what people think you have. — Davy Jones

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall ... his fortune melted to water. — Ihara Saikaku

In life it is training rather than birth which counts. — Ihara Saikaku

Ancient simplicity is gone ... the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. — Ihara Saikaku

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient. — Ihara Saikaku

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations. — Saikaku Ihara

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him. — Ihara Saikaku

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility. — Hannah Arendt

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done. — Ihara Saikaku

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money. — Ihara Saikaku

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. — Ihara Saikaku

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. — Ihara Saikaku

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others. — Ihara Saikaku

When he appeared before the lord, his lordship was smitten immediately with the boy's unadorned beauty, like a first glimpse of the moon rising above a distant mountain. The boy's hair gleamed like the feathers of a raven perched silently on a tree, and his eyes were lovely as lotus flowers. One by one his other qualities became apparent, from his nightingale voice to his gentle disposition, as obedient and true as a plum blossom. — Saikaku Ihara

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human. — Ihara Saikaku