Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and "treat"? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what? —Dr. Fred Oerther More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do you only hear bad news about LSD? It's always the same story about some idiot who thought he could fly, so he jumped out a fifty-story window. Why don't we ever hear this news story? "Today a young man took LSD and realized that ego is an illusion and that we are all part of the universe experiencing itself subjectively; that death is just another journey, and love is the only reality. And now, here's sports. —Bill Hicks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom — the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure — cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime — much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture. —Mary Ellen Snodgrass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Youth: The too-brief span wherein the human chassis is factory fresh, undented, and free of corrosion; a pristine condition worshiped by menopausal women in sweat suits and shrinking men with chestnut brown toupees, while those who actually possess it are frequently too shallow or despondent to enjoy it. —Rick Bayan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Caron is fifteen, to put it mildly. —Joan Hess More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I myself had not done anything just because . . . any of the adults who had me in their power told me it was for my own good. No fucking way. And whenever somebody told me that, there was like this alarm that went off under the hood and all I could hear was whoop-whoop-whoop, somebody's trying to steal something valuable, I'd think, so I'd usually do the opposite. —Russell Banks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane. —Donald G. Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't swim, so when the cigar goes out, I know I'm getting out of my depth." To illustrate, he lit the cigar, walked into the lake until the water reached the level of his mouth, then returned to the dry land, the cigar extinguished. "There, now," he said triumphantly, "if it hadn't been for the cigar, I would have drowned. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
L. Frank Baum [author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] had a weak heart and was not allowed to smoke, but he often held an unlit cigar in his mouth. Once, when standing on a lake shore, he was asked whether he ever actually lit the cigar. "I only light up when I go swimming," replied Baum. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: smoking swimming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. —Henry Miller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Drink and carouse with Bacchus / or eat dry bread with Jesus, / But don't sit down without one of the Gods. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that. —Bernard Malamud More about this quote Tags: life learning change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force. —Carl Jung More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. —Marguerite de Valois More about this quote Tags: virtue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email