Simone de Beauvoir Famous Quotes
"In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid."
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."
Simone de Beauvoir Quotations
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none."
Thomas Jefferson
"Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are."
Mickey Manfield
"Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free"
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."
Rita Rudner
"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."
W S Gilbert
"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed."
Epicurus
"There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches."
Proverbs 137 Bible
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
Publilius Syrus
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B Johnson
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
H Mathews