Sorgenfrey Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind. The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes. The gross appetite of love becomes most dangerous when it is elevated, or rather, indeed, disguised by sentimental passion. — Edward Gibbon

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats. — Will Rogers

You who are in power have only the means that money produces - we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. — Alexandre Dumas

Sunlight streamed through the room, clinging to him like it wanted him as much as she did. — Cindi Madsen

To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated. — John Holdren

Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,
Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave. — John Milton

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki

I don't have to make my own bed. — Frederik, Crown Prince Of Denmark

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately. — Cornelia Funke

Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.) — Terry Pratchett