The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Charm which means the power to effect work without employing brute force is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm.

Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.

The husband by primitive instinct partly certainly by ancient tradition regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.