All Quotes
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New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.Russell Baker
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.Peter De Vries
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.Franklin P. Jones
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
I knew her before she was a virgin.Oscar Levant
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.Alex Comfort
Celibacy is not hereditary.Guy Goden
Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.The Clown Prince of Darkness
Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues.
("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.")Plautus
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.Tom Robbins