Apr 23, 2003 09:02
Desire is poison.
Mahabaratta
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan
Where passion is not found, no virtue ever dwelt.
Maria Brooks
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
There can be no peace of mind in love, since what one has obtained is never antyhing but a starting point for further desires.
Marcel Proust
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H.L. Mencken
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain
Desire, even in it's wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
W.H. Auden
There may be some things better than sex, and there may be some things worse. But there's nothing exactly like it.
W.C. Fields
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
George Sand
Stolen sweets are best.
Colley Cibber
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.
Thomas Fuller
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
Anna Wickham
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway