Beauty is the gift of God… – Aristotle Beauty is a solitary kingdom. – Carneades Beauty is the only thing worth living for. – Agatha Christie Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. – Kahlil Gibran Beauty is a glorious gift of nature. – Homer Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. … [Read more…]
Writers are paranoid because they’re living two lives– their creative life, which they are most protective of, and their life as a human being. They have to protect both lives. I put a premium on the creative life. One risks one’s personal life in order to work, and when one cannot work, or when one … [Read more…]
The idealist. He is the man who has rooted out duality. He does not discuss: he demonstrates, indoctrinates, refutes, convinces, condemns. He calls others COMRADES but he never talks to them: he talks to HIS IDEA. – Octavio Paz He would say untruths and be ever double Both in his words and meaning. – Shakespeare … [Read more…]
Pornography Quotes Vice is a monster of so frightful mein As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. – Alexander Pope I spent a year of my life once writing an erotic novel, in common terms a pornographic one. … [Read more…]
Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard. – Hesiod Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. – William Hazlitt Envy is the most stupid … [Read more…]
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. – Tobias G. Smollett Courage is believing in yourself in the worst moments, and that’s something nobody can teach you. I have never heard of a University for Bravery, but I do know that everyone has it in them to be brave. – El Cordobes Bravery is … [Read more…]
“more saliva then tea” Tone: can be cute, can be offensive Meaning: you are talking too much. Let’s “have tea” A Cantonese saying. The “have tea” here doesn’t mean the serious kind of tea drinking/tasting, it means Dim Summing. “Let’s have tea some other time” Situation: when you run into a long-tim-no-see friend on the … [Read more…]
African * A cat may go to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. * When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. American * A cat’s a cat and that’s that. * As long as the cat will play, it’s okay. * The cat is mighty dignified until the … [Read more…]
“The usual masculine disillusionment is in discovering that a woman has a brain.” -Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind “I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking … [Read more…]
If your friend is honey, don’t lick him all The camel limped from its split lip A bad workman blames his tools Chose the neighbour before the house We can live without friends, but not without neighbours My brother and I against my cousin, My cousin and I against a stranger Blood is thicker than … [Read more…]