Category: quotes

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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?

• https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gratitude

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To 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 tooth
To 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, The Nurture Assumption, chapter 15, p. 330 – written in response to Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be The Verse“

I came across this quotation in this novel:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Brunetti_novels#Novels #30
• ISBN 978-1785152627 – https://www.amazon.de/dp/1785152629 – in English
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Leon#Die_Brunetti-Romane_2 #30
• ISBN 978-3257071207 – https://www.amazon.de/dp/3257071205 – in German

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

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 ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mays – mentor to Martin Luther King

• https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3235-it-must-be-borne-in-mind-that-the-tragedy-of

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 never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Jack Nicholson

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady)

Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.

Robin Williams

According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.

Robert De Niro

There’s a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what’s the problem?

Dustin Hoffman

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men think, ‘I know what I’m doing. Just show me somebody naked!

Jerry Seinfeld

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams

It’s been so long since I’ve had sex, I’ve forgotten who ties up whom.

Joan Rivers

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences money can buy.

Steve Martin

You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman. Stuff you pay good money for later in life.

Bob Hope

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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