Quotes of Carnal - somelinesforyou

“ Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ”

- George Eliot

“ No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ”

- George Orwell

“ Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name. ”

- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

“ The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. ”

- Carlos Santana

“ Man is by nature a political animal. ”

- Aristotle

“ I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9. ”

- Silvio Berlusconi

“ The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. ”

- James Baldwin

“ When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be. ”

- Unknown

“ Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist. ”

- Kylie Minogue

“ Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. ”

- Edith Head

“ I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. ”

- Kate Millet
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