#owning

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#himself #man #owned #owning #perceives

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#being #cease #death #delightful #drowning

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning. ↗

— Dane Cook

#drown #drowning #everyone #feeling #knows

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. ↗

— Jacob Hacker

#accounts #comfortable #even #feel #homes

Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#advice #alcoholism #alochol #drinking #drowning-one-s-sorrows

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use. ↗

— John O'Hara

#good #i #like #much #owning

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#duties #good #lifeguard #lot #people

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#buying #choice #college #day #every

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ↗

— Frank Harris

#capital #christian #churches #crowning #degraded

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#death #defeat #doors #drowning #emigration