Quotes on "S"

SAINT

Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce

SANITY

Sanity is a cosy lie.
Susan Sontag

SELF-HATRED

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Friederich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is luxury is self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde

SELF-LOVE

To love oneself is the begining of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage- he won't encounter many rivals.
G.C. Lichtenberg

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
Jules Renard

SEX

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield

Nothing in our culture, not even the home computer, is more overrated than the epidural felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
Quentin Crisp

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
Karl Kraus

Why should we take advise on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't.
George Bernard Shaw

SILENCE

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross MacDonald

SUCESS

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."
Srephen Leacock

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch

It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
Gore Vidal

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