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25 Quotes About London (That Aren’t About the Olympics)

Jessica Marati — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:39:59 +0000

A collection of famous sayings that celebrate (and poke fun at) London.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. -Samuel Johnson

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air – or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. -Arthur Conan Doyle

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie. -William Dunbar

I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. -Noël Coward

One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions. -Julia Gregson

A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, / Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye / Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping / In sight, then lost amidst the forestry / Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping / On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; / A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown / On a fool’s head – and there is London Town. -Lord Byron

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. -Oscar Wilde

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. -Arthur Conan Doyle

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. -Jane Austen

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. -John Osborne

This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. -William Butler Yeats

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. -Stephen Fry

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It’s the second biggest cause of death amongst the English in general. Sheer boredom. -Alexander McCall Smith

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. -Peter Shaffer

Nothing is certain in London but expense. -William Shenstone

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look. -Sir Seymour Hicks

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? -Charlotte Brontë

There’s a hole in the world / Like a great black pit / And the vermin of the world / Inhabit it / And it goes by the name of London. -Stephen Sondheim in Sweeney Todd

I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining. -Groucho Marx

London, London, London town / You can toughen up or get thrown around. -Kano

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. -Ambrose Bierce

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed. -George VI

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. -George Bernard Shaw

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas. -Herman Melville

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are now / In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow / At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore / Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more / Yet in its depth what treasures! –Percy Bysshe Shelley

London is a modern Babylon. -Benjamin Disraeli

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50 Famous Quotes About Paris

Jessica Marati — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:13:26 +0000

Oui, oui, Paris.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris. -Oscar Wilde

You can’t escape the past in Paris, and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden. -Allen Ginsberg

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. -Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The national characteristics… the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.” -Lawrence Durrell

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. -Michael Simkins

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. -Thomas Jefferson

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight. -Ernest Hemingway

America is my country and Paris is my hometown. -Gertrude Stein

The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café. -Oscar Hammerstein II

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French. -James Baldwin

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. -John Berger

People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain… or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris. -Roman Payne

Paris ain’t much of a town. -Babe Ruth

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. -Honoré de Balzac

You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe. -Owen Wilson as Gil in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. -Jean Cocteau

Secrets travel fast in Paris. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am. -Augustus Saint-Gaudens

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. -Josephine Baker

Paris… is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail. -Edmund White

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything. -James Thurber

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. –Ernest Hemingway

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It’s too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way. -Leslie Caron as Lise and Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan in An American In Paris

Everything ends this way in France – everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs – everything is a pretext for a good dinner. -Jean Anouilh

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. -Charles de Montesquieu

Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train? -Margaret Anderson

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. -Henry Miller

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets – as vast and indestructible as nature itself. -Anne Rice

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! -Charles Dickens

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh. -Kate Simon

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. -Marion Cotillard as Adriana in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris

I love Paris when it sizzles. -Cole Porter

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. -Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

Good talkers are only found in Paris. -Francois Villon

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city… It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see. -Katherine Mansfield

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball. -Gaston Leroux

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds. -Samantha Schutz

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator. -Henry Miller

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even – the French air clears up the brain and does good – a world of good. -Vincent Willem van Gogh

Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I’d never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn’t know what. Maybe it was something I’d forgotten or something I’ve been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me. -from in the final vignette of Paris Je T’Aime

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and good manners. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. -Friedrich Nietzsche

She’s one of those third year girls who gripe my liver… You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture… They’re officious and dull. They’re always making profound observations they’ve overheard. -Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan in An American In Paris

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. -Mark Twain

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. -Victor Hugo

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood… I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world. –Michel de Montaigne

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o’clock, and start writing at once. -James Joyce

It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather. -Adrian Leeds

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. -Ernest Hemingway

Paris is always a good idea. -Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild in Sabrina

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30 Best Quotes on Change

Jessica Marati — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:23:53 +0000

EcoSalon’s favorite quotes on accepting change as it comes.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. -Joan Wallach Scott

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. -Denis Waitley

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. -Jawaharlal Nehru

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. -C.S. Lewis

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. -Faith Baldwin

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. -Mary Engelbreit

All great changes are preceded by chaos. -Deepak Chopra

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. -Arthur Rubinstein

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -Confucius

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes… To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety. -Paul Tournier

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril. -Laurens van der Post

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. -Pauline R. Kezer

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. -Shunryu Suzuki

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. -Lynn Hall

Things do not change; we change. -Henry David Thoreau

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. -Denis Waitley

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. -Anatole France

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -Henri Bergson

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance. -Deepak Chopra

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace. -Eckhart Tolle

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. -Lao Tzu

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. -Michael J. Fox

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don’t be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. -Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what. -Andy Warhol

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. -J.K. Rowling

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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25 Quotes on Who Really Runs America

Jessica Marati — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:53:29 +0000

A collection of sayings from politicians and pundits on the role of corporations in government.

It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. -Henry Ford

The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. -Franklin Roosevelt

Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is the FED has usurped the government. It controls everything here (in Congress) and controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will… When the FED was passed, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here… A super-state controlled by international bankers, and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure! -Rep. Louis T. McFadden

The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. -Abraham Lincoln

The banks can and do create money… And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people. –Reginald McKenna

Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun. -Kurt Vonnegut

Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens. -Britney Spears (in 2003)

Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. -David Rockefeller

I knew that all corporate leaders get special attention in Washington. But the ones who are the most feared are media corporations. -Ben H. Bagdikian

They think they’re gonna get away with this. These people who stole the pension funds of the American public. Who stole their money, who stole the future of our kids and grand-kids they think… They’re kleptomaniacs and they think they’re gonna get away with it. They have taken our Democracy and formed it into a klep-tocracy. -Michael Moore

What we have today is a laissez faire American version of feudalism; a private government in the form of private corporations run by private individuals who consolidated power to govern entire activities within our political economy. -Barry C. Lynn

Private monopolies determine the brand of breakfast cereal we eat, the type of car we drive, where we bank, the medical treatment we receive, the fashion of our clothes, and the kind of toothbrush we use, in addition to the beer we drink, the health insurance we buy, and what we feed our pets. -Don Monkerud

What we’ve had since the Industrial Revolution was one or another form of state capitalism. It’s been overwhelmed, certainly in the last century, by big conglomerations of capital corporate structures that are all interlinked with one another and form strategic alliances and administer markets and so on. And are tied up with a very powerful state. So it’s some other kind of system – call it whatever you want. -Noam Chomsky

We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years… It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. -David Rockefeller (at the Bilderberg Meeting in 1991)

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we (will then) be taxed in our meat and our drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they (will) be happy. -Thomas Jefferson

They’re upset about the fact that Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country and that one party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the other party caters to them as well. -Alan Grayson (on the Occupy Wall Street movement)

I would have to say that who has had the largest effect on the whole planet without us really paying attention across the board and everywhere is the entire banking industry and their disregard for the people that they’re supposed to be working for… So the ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys… They’re not heroes, but they are people that had a really huge effect on the way the world is operating. -Mario Batali

The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world – no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. -Woodrow Wilson

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.” -Philip Slater

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control… Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent. -Rep. Larry P. McDonald

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their father’s conquered. -Thomas Jefferson

A private corporation, let’s say General Electric, is, in fact, just a pure tyranny… And when those institutions also control the government, the framework for popular decision-making very much narrows. In fact, that’s the purpose of shrinking government. It’s so that the sphere of popular decision-making will narrow and more decisions will fall into the hands of the private tyrannies. -Noam Chomsky

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go… We are living in the end of the sovereign states… In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish… Countless people… will hate the new world order… and will die protesting against it. -H.G. Wells

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-Allen Ginsberg

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens… must be broken, or it will break us. -Thomas Jefferson

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30 Best Quotes About Sex

Jessica Marati — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:00:38 +0000

EcoSalon’s favorite quotes celebrating sex and sexuality.

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -Marlene Dietrich

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. -Marge Piercy

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. -Andy Warhol

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. -Isabel Allende

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. -P. J. O’Rourke

I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. -Hunter S. Thompson

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. -John Barrymore

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? -Rita Rudner

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime. -George Bernard Shaw

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go it’s pretty damn good. -Woody Allen

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. -Marilyn Monroe

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. -Audrey Hepburn

I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt. -Groucho Marx

My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live. -Erica Jong

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute. -Author Unknown

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. -Erma Bombeck

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework. -Bill Cosby

Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they’ve got nothing to worry about. -Beverly Mickins

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! -George Bernard Shaw

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. -Don Schrader

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -Woody Allen

A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are. -Victor Lownes

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. -Marquis de Sade

A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: “because everything does.” -Honor Tracy

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex. -Aldous Huxley

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. -Robert Byrne

Sex is emotion in motion. -Mae West

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there’s nothing exactly like it. -W. C. Fields

Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. -Gertrude Stein

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. -Henry Louis Mencken

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30 Quotes on Spring

Jessica Marati — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:40:31 +0000

EcoSalon’s favorite quotes about the change of seasons.

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! -Mark Twain

Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. -Virgil

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. -Rainer Maria Rilke

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. -Kobayashi Issa

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. -Charles Dickens

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature’s rebirth? -Edward Giobbi

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. -Margaret Atwood

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. -W. Earl Hall

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. -Christopher Morley

Spring is the time of plans and projects. -Leo Tolstoy

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. -Proverb

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” -Robin Williams

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. -Ernest Hemingway

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? -Neltje Blanchan

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom. -Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. -Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. -Ruth Stout

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. -Harriet Ann Jacobs

An optimist is the human personification of spring. -Susan J. Bissonette

Spring is when life’s alive in everything. -Christina Rossetti

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. -Pablo Neruda

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. -Mark Twain

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. -William Shakespeare

In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. -Emma Racine deFleur

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. -Rainer Maria Rilke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. -Henry Van Dyke

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. -Robert H. Schuller

The sun was warm but the wind was chill / You know how it is with an April day. -Robert Frost

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. -Virgil A. Kraft

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -George Santayana

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30 Humorous Quotes on Dieting

Jessica Marati — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:36:10 +0000

In honor of National Nutrition Month, a collection of the most ridiculous things ever said about unhealthy dieting.

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. -Dan Bennett

I bought a talking refrigerator that said “Oink” every time I opened the door. It made me hungry for pork chops. -Marie Mott

We’re the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it. -Author Unknown

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people. -Jim Eason

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. -Jim Davis

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. -Julia Child

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, “You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.” -Dave Barry

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. -Jim Davis

I’m allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat. -Jennifer Greene Duncan

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner. -H.S. Leigh

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for bad hunter. -Author Unknown

Gluttony is not a secret vice. -Orson Welles

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. -Jean Kerr

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook. -Andy Rooney

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. -Don Kardong

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets. -Author Unknown

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. -Jean Kerr

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. -Orson Welles

I’m not overweight. I’m just nine inches too short. -Shelley Winters

Diet Coke with lemon – didn’t that used to be called Pledge? -Jay Leno

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting. -William Powell

A waist is a terrible thing to mind. -Tom Wilson

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won’t dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn’t taste that bad. -Janette Barber

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! -Author Unknown

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. -Joe E. Lewis

Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. -Beth McCollister

The cardiologist’s diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. -Author Unknown

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. -Author Unknown

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. -Irv Kupcinet

When we lose twenty pounds… we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. -Woody Allen

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