"Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the depth of the lover's insecurity." -- Margaret Mead
"Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again." -- Khalil Gibran
"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -- Franklin P. Jones
"When people say women can't be trusted because they cycle every month, my response is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed to negotiate peace treaties in the evening." -- June Reinisch
"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." -- Thomas Huxley
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -- Thomas Mann
"If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an 'R' rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an 'X' rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?" -- Sally Struthers
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."
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"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone." -- Oscar Wilde
"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feelings of one's peers. Cannabalism is moral in a cannibal country". -- Samuel Butler
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot
"To slurp or not to slurp at the fountain of filth is a decision to which each of us is entitled." -- Stephen Kessler
"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth." -- Chico Marx
"Of all the sexual aberrations, the most peculiar is chastity." -- Remy de Gourmont
"Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose."
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"It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed."
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"Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood." -- Chuck Palahniuk
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