Thomas Jefferson Agrarian Society Quotes

#1. Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.

Carl Sagan

#2. Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

#3. He who sings frightens away his ills.

Miguel De Cervantes

#4. And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

George Washington

#5. Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

Ray Bradbury

#7. We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused.

Jon Krakauer

#8. When Christ is the center of your focus, all else will come into proper perspective.

Croft M. Pentz

#9. Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. As a publishing magnate and then as a postmaster, he was one of the few to view America as a whole. To him, the colonies were not merely disparate entities. They were a new world with common interests and ideals.

Walter Isaacson

#11. Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.

Mia Asher

#12. Only those with a conscience can find an action unconscionable.

F.D. Crandall

#13. I am not a pessimist.
Just a well informed optimist.

Antonio Gala

#14. A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.

Jarius Raphel