quotes about people

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. ~Woody Allen



Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ~Oscar Wilde



You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells



An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet



Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior



Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950



We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ~Milton Friedman We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ~Milton Friedman



I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked. ~Lambert Jeffries



The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943



A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ~Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965



Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. ~Eugene Ionesco



By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. ~George Herbert



The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox



Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love



You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father." ~Ladies' Home Journal, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy



Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims



As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. ~Jack Handey