Lyra Marlowe
erotic romance that breaks a few rules
Lyra Marlowe
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Favorite Quotes

I love quotes -- collect 'em everywhere I go.  Here are a few of my favorites.
If you have one to suggest, please let me know!

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The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.       
–        Isak Dinesen

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
          – Laurence J. Peter

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
          – Helen Rowland

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
          – Oscar Wilde

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
          – Mignon McLaughlin

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
          – Hermann Hesse

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
          – Noel Coward

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
          – H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
          – H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us.

The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
          – Thomas Carlyle

Blame someone else and get on with your life.
          – Alan Woods

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
          – Mark Twain

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
          – John A. Wheeler

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
          – Robert Frost

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
           – James Thurber

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
          – John Kenneth Galbraith

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
          – Robert Heinlein