ti amo amore mio
O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. ~Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913, reprinted in The Young Rebecca, 1982
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honore de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. ~Proverbs 23:7
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. ~Sid Caesar
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. ~H.M. Tomlinson
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow
Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. ~Martin H. Fischer
Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. ~Michael Nelson
Peace be to you, fear not. ~Genesis 43:23
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ~Herbert Hoover
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. ~George Bernard Shaw
Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. ~John Fiske
Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. ~Jim Bishop, "On the English Countryside," NY Journal-American, 28 September 1957, quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations compiled by James B. Simpson
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ~Andre Gide
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