"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."

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Source : Attributed in W. Somerset Maugham, Christmas Holiday (1939)

Lord Chesterfield

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“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”

Source : Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan
“Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.”
“You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.”
“I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.”

Source : Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.281, IET
“Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.”
“...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.48, Pan Macmillan
“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.”
“I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.”

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