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- He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.
- Unknown, Latin Legal Phrase
- Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
- A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An essay on Criticism
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
- (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands - e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour [is] the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005)
- If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw,
Here and there a patch of snow,
Dirtier than the ground below,
Dribbles down a marshy flood;
Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing,
"This is Spring." - Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl
- You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
- No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), The Weight of Glory
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