Category: quotes
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with great power comes great responsibility
Also: if you light a fire, you also have to control it and take care of it a bit – you don’t want it to become a conflagration, right?
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quotation: “how sharper than a serpent’s tooth …”
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gratitude How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it isTo have a thankless child. William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 310 – https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gratitude How sharper than a serpent’s toothTo hear your child make such a fuss.It isn’t fair —it’s not the truth—He’s fucked up, yes, but not by us. Judith Rich Harris,…
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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go …
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Martel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi
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Benjamin E. Mays: goals, dreams, stars, …
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your…
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Memorable Sex quotes
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz SL500. Frank Sinatra It isn’t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married. George Burns Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. Sharon Stone My mother…
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“never argue with stupid people …”
never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. (???)
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Albert Einstein on imagination and logic
http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/fake_einstein_quotation_paperweight
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“we are… an American family” – from the movie “You’ve Got Mail”
http://www.themoviequotes.com/59/You_ve_Got_Mail/page_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You’ve_Got_Mail – the movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853 – the movie
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Alexander Woollcott: “All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.”
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott
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If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!
If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em! https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17366.John_Waters