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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.: Alain van der Heide
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.": Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)
I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course.: Baldrick - Sense and Senility
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex.": Ed Moran, Covina, California
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.: Franz Xavier Kroetz
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.: Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?: Ludwig Wittgenstein via Anatol Holt
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.: Winnie the Pooh

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