Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran LebowitzA poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert FrostHistory is more or less bunk.
Henry FordAdvice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar GracianOne may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich NietzscheTo delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George SantayanaThe sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus AureliusThe heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen KellerHe is the true enchanter whose spell operates not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving