And where does she find them?

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

— Frederic Raphael

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

— Anonymous

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

— Tom Lehrer

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To…

— Samuel Smiles

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an…

— Paul Auster

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

— Ruth St. Denis

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

— Al Gore

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his…

— Dick Cavett

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

— William James

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter…

— Tom Stoppard

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett