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
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. Virtue is just temptation, overcome. —Margaret Deland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[From an interview in Playboy] I guarantee you heaven isn't in Miss March's pussy. . . . Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you're sitting on the couch and you get up to make a triple decker sandwich. It's on the other side of that, when you don't make the sandwich. It's about sacrifice. . . . It's about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That's what I believe, anyway. I'm always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel. —Jim Carrey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not take drugs — I am drugs. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. —C. P. Snow More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. —Alice Caldwell Rice More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All sins are attempts to fill voids. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: sin desire need emptiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email