Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCTo blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCDo not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673