Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Copy Share Image
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is - which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
