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"I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for tobacco since." Arturo Toscanini
"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself." Epicurus
"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead." Samuel Butler
"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams." Elias Canetti
"Stolen kisses require an accomplice." Just One Fool Thing After Another: A Cowfolks' Guide to Romance
"If I am not for myself, who will be?" Pirke Avoth
"There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex." Billy Joel
"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." Steel Magnolias
"The best substitute for experience is being sixteen." Raymond Duncan
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." Edvard Munch
"kisses are a better fate / than wisdom." e.e. cummings
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right." Henry Ford
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person." Arthur Schopenhauer
"Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast." Woody Allen
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." Seneca
"'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul." Judy Garland
"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down." Allen H. Neuharth
"For what is it to die,
But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?"
Kahlil Gibran
"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?" Robert Browning
"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you." Marsha Norman
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." Butch Hancock
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time." Jean de La Fontaine
"The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze." Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
"If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death." Charles Sanders Peirce
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." Mary Kay Ash
"If she was half as good-looking as she thinks she is, she'd be goddam lucky." J. D. Salinger
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Douglas Adams
'I drink to make other people interesting." George Jean Nathan
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." William Penn
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake." Rene Descartes
"Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her." Anon
"Maybe part of loving is learning to let go." The Wonder Years
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality"
Emily Dickenson
"I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine." Kurt Vonnegut
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." Albert Camus
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." Isaac Newton