Richard Savage famous quotes

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
-- Richard Savage

#Sex #Fiction #Contradiction

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
-- Richard Savage

#Anger #Men #Way

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
-- Richard Savage

#Stupid #Race #Faces

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
-- Richard Savage

#Devil #Teeth #Vehement

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.
-- Richard Savage

#Murder #Fame #Slander

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.
-- Richard Savage

#Men #He Man #Strikes

The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.
-- Richard Savage

#Past #Brain #Progress

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.
-- Richard Savage

#Soul #Woe #Action

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Art can contradict Science.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.