Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm judicial pen And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams an intensity of expectation that in the end diminishes the reality.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude and nothing more important.

Euthanasia is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Good fellowship unflagging is the prime requisite for success in our society and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Performance is an act of faith.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.