Wee Geordie Quotes & Sayings

So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called "equality before the law" remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a "right over one's own person," for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve. — Rudolf Rocker

Some will call this self-indulgence
(They are lucky not to know its truth)
Some will know the simple fact of pain
This is becoming my normality — Sarah Kane

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it. — Milton Berle

I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture Venus in Furs — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process. — Gloria Steinem

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. — W. Somerset Maugham

You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage. — Charlie Sheen

Valor is common but great souls are rare. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete — Waite Phillips

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else. — Banksy

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you. — Jo Brand