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The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.-- Gloria Leonard
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts -- not the facts themselves.-- Cohen's Law
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
To be modest is to understand oneself as being capable of all men's weaknesses.-- Bernard of Clairvaux
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.-- George Bernard Shaw
He believes in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them.-- George Bernard Shaw
Maybe that explains Perl: Larry Wall let a kitten have its way with the bash, sed, and expr doc, then implemented the result.-- Jay Maynard
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.-- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.-- George Bernard Shaw
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."-- George Bernard Shaw
Ask a man which way he is going to vote and he will probably tell you. Ask him however why and vagueness is all.-- Bernard Levin
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.-- Alan Cohen
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.-- George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- George Bernard Shaw
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."-- George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.-- George Bernard Shaw
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.-- George Bernard Shaw
"Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism."-- Bernard J. Hibbits
What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.-- Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers (1966))
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.-- George Bernard Shaw
Most Gracious Queen we thee implore,
To go away and sin no more,
But if that effort be too great,
To go away at any rate.-- Lord Colchester
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
Language and its absurd conjunctions;
Constellations and crustaceans rhyme.