I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat. , Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam. ]
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat. , Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. ]
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam. ' No, he said, 'the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life. ' So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough female firefighters here in America.