Adultery Quote by David P. Barash

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

— Murray Banks

“And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.”

— Michael McDowell

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

— Ambrose Bierce

“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are…

— Agnes Repplier

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this…

— Mark Twain

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing;…

— Saint Augustine

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in…

— Samuel Richardson

The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their…

— John Playfair

The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but…

— Neil MacGregor