"To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors."

Hemingway, Ernest on heaven
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on character
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Hemingway, Ernest on defeat
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

Fleming, Ian on time
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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

Byron, Lord on absurdity
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"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."

Unknown, Source on sex
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"Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy."

Marx, Groucho on sex
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"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian on sex
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"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."

Davis, Bette on sex
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"If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all."

Dangerfield, Rodney on sex
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"Be sincere, be brief; be seated."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on speakers and speaking
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"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on perseverance
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"If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on failure
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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."

Webster, Daniel on farming and farmers   

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"By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber."

Thoreau, Henry David on farming and farmers   

"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."

Kennedy, John F. on farming and farmers
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"The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on farming and farmers   

"It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to."

Linn, Walter on necessity   

"Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us."

Davis, Evan on women
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"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."

Dunne, Finley Peter on education   

"I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care."

Unknown, Source on caring
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"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."

Carnegie, Dale on possibilities
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

Buck, Pearl S. on mistakes   

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Ford, Henry on mistakes
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"A clever man commits no minor blunders."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mistakes
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"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

Conant, James B. on risk   

"Never tell me the odds."

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo on risk
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"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

Ovid on risk
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"The loving are the daring."

Taylor, Bayard on risk   

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on love
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"When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master."

Bridges, Robert on love
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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

Brown, Charlie on love
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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