I have collected some of my favorite quotations here. Yes, they are not my original thoughts, but they resonate.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo,

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. Edna Buchanan

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. R. D. Laing

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

God created sex. Priests created marriage. Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. Lynn Lavner - as published in PFLAG

The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. Alfred Kinsey

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances. Marc Maihueird

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. 'Yes' is the answer. Swami X

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. Robert Bloch (1917 - 1994)

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

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