Levity Quote by Rabbi Akiva Download Open image “Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.” — Rabbi Akiva ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Levity Men
He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
“Levity was ever your besetting sin,’ he said severely. ‘Let me tell you that it is not at all becoming in a female! It… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I do believe that the emphasis on egalitarian and respectful sex—purged of any expressions of power, aggression, and transgression—is antithetical to erotic desire for… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“A man's body is like a circus. You can swing off his trapeze arms, lay your head on thighs like fresh-blown balloons while his… — Bojan Veljanov Copy Share Image
Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he… — Rabbi Akiva Copy Share Image
In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship. — Rabbi Akiva Copy Share Image
If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which… — Rabbi Akiva Copy Share Image
Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are… — Rabbi Akiva Copy Share Image
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
“Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun...… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death,… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
