It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. ~Daphne Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street
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The brief discussion in the Darwin Day thread, re. sex and religion, reminded me of a poem by Blake:
The Garden of Love
I went to the Garden of Love.
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And "Thou Shalt Not", writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,
And I saw it filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
The Garden of Love
I went to the Garden of Love.
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And "Thou Shalt Not", writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,
And I saw it filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. -Hooters wet napkin wrapper
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretences but your own.
One going to take a pointed stick to poke a baby bird, should first try it on themselves, to see how it hurts.
"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
--Salvador deMadariaga.
--Salvador deMadariaga.
Curse the blasted jelly-boned swines, the slimy belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied pulseless lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.... D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), in a letter to Ed. Garnett, 3 July 1912
Here are a few I like
Happiness depends upon ourselves
Being in love is feeling the sun from both sides
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Happiness depends upon ourselves
Being in love is feeling the sun from both sides
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
I've cut and pasted this straight from the movie lines quiz, apologies for repeating myself but (imo) it's so good it deserves a place here.
"I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."
Slacker Danny - the inventor of the 16 skin Camberwell Carrot - in "Withnail & I"
"I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."
Slacker Danny - the inventor of the 16 skin Camberwell Carrot - in "Withnail & I"
"Contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom, let him tell us why we did not attack Sweden." Osama bin Laden
In cross examination, as in FISHING, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Louis nizer
Louis nizer