“Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles”
― Rowena Cherry, quote from Knight's Fork
“Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…”
― Rowena Cherry, quote from Knight's Fork
“Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.”
― Rowena Cherry, quote from Knight's Fork
“Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.
-'Rhett ”
― Rowena Cherry, quote from Knight's Fork
“Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?....It’s less destructive of clothes.”
― Rowena Cherry, quote from Knight's Fork
“Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.”
― Rowena Cherry, quote from Knight's Fork
“Rhett: Here’s the problem. I am not the sexual equivalent of an espresso machine. ”
― Rowena Cherry, quote from Knight's Fork
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“Most girls take one look at you and swoon. You've never had to really work for someone's affection or put effort into maintaining it. In many ways, your natural gifts have done you a disservice-- they've stunted your sensitivity and charm! You've never had to develop insight into what will make a girl laugh and come to love you for reasons that aren't handsome or heroic. That's why smees are experts on the subtle arts of courtship and seduction; nothing comes easy to us, but we do understand and live by the Lover's Maxim."
"And what on earth is the Lover's Maxim?" asked Maz, feeling very uninformed.
The smee cleared his throat. "If you can't be handsome, be rich. If you can't be rich, be strong. If you cant be strong, be witty."
"But what if you can't be witty?" Max wondered.
"Learn the guitar.”
― Henry H. Neff, quote from The Maelstrom
“Alcuni dicono che la vita è solo un insieme di sventure; in altre parole, che la vita è una sventura; ma se la vita è una sventura, la morte deve essere sicuramente il contrario, cioè una fortuna, dato che la morte è l'opposto della vita. Questa conclusione sembrerebbe inevitabile. Ma coloro che parlano così sono sicuramente malati o poveri, fossero in buona salute, avessero la borsa ben fornita, l'allegria in cuore, delle Cecilie, delle Marine e la speranza di altre cose ancor migliori, allora cambierebbero sicuramente parere. Io li considero una razza di pessimisti che si alligna solo tra i filosofi spiantati e i teologhi bricconi e atrabiliari. Se il piacere esiste e lo si può godere solo da vivi, la vita è una fortuna.”
― Giacomo Casanova, quote from The Story of My Life
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”
― Carter G. Woodson, quote from The Mis-Education of the Negro
“Once there, he was met by Rosa, who greeted him with a lingering kiss. “Put your dagger back in its sheath,” she smiled as their bodies pressed together. “You’re the one who made me draw it. And you’re the one,” he added knowingly, “with its sheath.” She took his hand. “Come on, then.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
“Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.”
― Lawrence Durrell, quote from Balthazar
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