"The over curious are not over wise."

-- Philip Massinger

#Wise Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Curious Quotes

“Life's a pitch, and then you buy”

Source : "Sales tips from the new Billy Mays" by Thom Patterson, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2010.
“Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.”
“In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.”
“To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.”
“If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
“Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.”
“Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.”

Source : Paul Kurtz (1983). “In defense of secular humanism”, Prometheus Books

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