#sat

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk. (Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) ↗

— Marlowe Christopher

#heaven #love #stars #whisper #love

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#beauty

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain. ↗

— Tom Morrison

#romance #satire #stock-market #love

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them... ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#satire #sodomy #men

When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them." Pastor Butch Paugh ↗

— Tarrin P. Lupo

#misattributed #men

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#logic #logical-thinking #men #satire #men

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#wine #women #love

To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#misattributed #men

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business. ↗

— Teresa Amabile

#fulfillment #motivation #satisfaction #art

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive. ↗

— John Fowles

#satisfaction #unsatisfaction #men