Cloys Quotes

#1. Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#2. Even pleasure cloys without variety.

Ovid

#3. Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor ... Daenerys, sweet queen, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it gives me to bask once more in your presence.

George R R Martin

#4. Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

Martial

#5. Possession which cloys man, only increases the affection of woman

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#6. People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Mary Wortley Montagu

#7. I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner
live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

Charlaine Harris

#8. If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

Ron Dellums

#9. When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

Jay Mohr

#10. The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.

Sathya Sai Baba

#11. As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.

Gunter Blobel

#12. Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Jane Howard

#13. There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures

Imran Khan

#14. Welcome back. I see the assassins have failed.

Darynda Jones

#15. Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.

Ron Perlman

#16. By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats - that is, dairy products - were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#17. The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.

Aziz Ansari

#18. Better late than later

KSL