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tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · ★★☆☆ Fair (490 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/ujvv0yxq · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr · ★★☆☆ Fair (516 ratings) · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
tiny.ag/mjjtqyix · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (549 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/pmqy9n03 · ★★☆☆ Fair (782 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (892 ratings) · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
tiny.ag/sq9g8eav · ★★☆☆ Fair (3330 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (409 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (1410 ratings) · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (436 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
tiny.ag/yuezt1iy · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · ★★☆☆ Fair (3066 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/o5og0ube · ★★☆☆ Fair (692 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.