Emotions and Feelings

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Nota nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down onor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 

[ Gollum speaking of the Ring :] Where iss it? Where iss it? . . . Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

 

[ Gollum speaking of the Ring :] Where iss it? Where iss it? . . . Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

 

[ Remark after he was defeated in the presidentialelection :] A funny thing happened to me on theway to the White House.

 

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

 

What a satire, by the way, is that machine [Charles Babbage’s calculating machine] on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out results like a corn-sheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels of them!

 

The Oklahoma Ligno and Lithograph Co Weeps at a nude by Michael Angelo.

 

Love’s pleasure lasts but a moment;

 

A delicate wit is a corruption which a nation takes a long time to acquire. It is only worn-out nations that possess it.

The wit we wish we had spoils the wit we have.

He suddenly became shy and developed a conceited grin—the grin of the village yokel whose cricket score is mentioned before a stranger.

He suddenly became shy and developed a conceited grin—the grin of the village yokel whose cricket score is mentioned before a stranger.

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.