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Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.


Dorothy Dix

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JOE LOUIS Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
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DOROTHY DIX It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
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DOROTHY DIX Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yours...
DOROTHY DIX We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
DOROTHY DIX It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
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DOROTHY DIX The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads
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DOROTHY DIX So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the reme...
DOROTHY DIX Nobody wants to retire from football.
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COL. FREDERICK MARTIN Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
PEARL BAILEY Nobody wants to press charges because they don't want to admit they were attacked. The question now ...
DAVID MICHAEL PERRY Everyone wants to change the world but nobody wants to start with themselves.
MOOSA RAHAT You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
PEARL BAILEY Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.
MICHAEL FASSBENDER Nobody sane wants to disappoint himself intentionally.
TOBA BETA Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
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SEAN KELLY Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.
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DOROTHY DIX People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...
OTTO DIX As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years after...
OTTO DIX You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
OTTO DIX I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reaso...
OTTO DIX All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is ...
OTTO DIX Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I'...
OTTO DIX I will either be famous or infamous.
OTTO DIX Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary...
OTTO DIX I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beaut...
OTTO DIX I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long,...
DOROTHEA DIX This indicates, I think, the end product of a culture of cover-up and an inability of the ministry t...
ADRIAN DIX They need to be called to account. They need to explain. It is not good enough to say the job is har...
ADRIAN DIX What we've seen over the last few years in response to this case is the culture of cover up and deni...
ADRIAN DIX We were overly ambitious . . . We just did too many things and they stretched our capacity to manage...
ADRIAN DIX It really has been a collective effort.
ADRIAN DIX I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of oppositio...
DOROTHEA DIX To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the youn...
DOROTHEA DIX The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the ...
DOROTHEA DIX What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
DOROTHEA DIX My wish is to be known only thru my work.
DOROTHEA DIX In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by couns...
DOROTHEA DIX Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's misera...
DOROTHEA DIX I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to b...
DOROTHEA DIX Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the...
DOROTHEA DIX The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and...
DOROTHEA DIX There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, u...
DOROTHEA DIX I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sor...
DOROTHEA DIX Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot lear...
DOROTHEA DIX Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared...
DOROTHEA DIX I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me stren...
DOROTHEA DIX Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty....
DOROTHEA DIX No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
DOROTHEA DIX A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on...
DOROTHEA DIX They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I ...
DOROTHEA DIX We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passiv...
DOROTHEA DIX Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; ...
DOROTHEA DIX The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it we...
DOROTHEA DIX I don't think that when we have congressmen making decisions on rainforests and bridges to nowhere t...
BILL DIX I think Patrick is a fine young man, rooted in principles of limited government and standing up for ...
BILL DIX I stand by the president and his decision to take the fight to the terrorists. Let's not forget that...
BILL DIX I'm here tonight because I want to be your next Congressman. My last 10 years in the Iowa Legislatur...
BILL DIX The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beaut...
DOROTHEA DIX Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty er...
DOROTHEA DIX What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of ne...
DOROTHEA DIX Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for ...
DOROTHEA DIX The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of dis...
DOROTHEA DIX With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impo...
DOROTHEA DIX I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him...
OTTO DIX My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
DOROTHEA DIX The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the perse...
DOROTHEA DIX The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
GEORGE DIX I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, t...
DOROTHEA DIX Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the t...
DOROTHEA DIX Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, exce...
DOROTHEA DIX The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teac...
DOROTHEA DIX In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHEA DIX The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
DOROTHEA DIX The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a...
DOROTHEA DIX What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yello...
DOROTHEA DIX Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbo...
DOROTHEA DIX The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes
DOROTHEA DIX I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of...
DOROTHEA DIX The problem that we're facing is not unique to Hernando County. All 67 counties in the state are fac...
DENNIS DIX I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to th...
DOROTHEA DIX Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manusc...
DOROTHEA DIX If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the...
DOROTHEA DIX We believe in giving a doctor rehabilitation rather than throwing him on the scrap heap.
ANDREW DIX It's about public protection. If it's possible within the context of public protection to enable the...
ANDREW DIX I think it's fiscally irresponsible, and it ignores the evidence of light rail around the country. P...
BEVERLY DIX We'll all be watching the vote. It's a very important vote. Hopefully, the decision will be made in ...
BEVERLY DIX This is an important decision that affects all Clark County taxpayers.
BEVERLY DIX This is definitely one step, but there are many questions that have been raised by the trial that ha...
PAMELA DIX To serve someone a citation, you have to do it in person. If it?s an absentee landlord, it?s cost pr...
LOUISE DIX It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you ...
DOROTHEA DIX I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
DOROTHEA DIX A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toi...
DOROTHEA DIX While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in p...
DOROTHEA DIX Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, exce...
DOROTHEA DIX In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHEA DIX Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
DOROTHEA DIX If these [motions] are going to be seriously pursued there is a lot to be resolved.
GEORGE DIX We just gave up too many points in the first half. The second half we just wanted to come out and pr...
RYAN DIX He's a great kid. He's sacrificed a lot for our program, and is only going to get better as a player...
JOE DIX But the truth is the highest consideration.
DOROTHEA DIX Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
DOROTHEA DIX Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as th...
DOROTHEA DIX As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no retu...
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DENNIS DIX The problem is that the costs are accelerating faster than our fees are accelerating.
DENNIS DIX Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
DOROTHEA DIX All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, an...
DOROTHEA DIX Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and t...
DOROTHEA DIX That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the tr...
DOROTHEA DIX Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to b...
DOROTHEA DIX I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties ar...
DOROTHEA DIX It's possible something Ellis said out of court might be used not only against him but Mr. DeLay. Th...
GEORGE DIX My judgment is that simply because a prosecutor decides that one approach is more effective than ano...
GEORGE DIX This is serious stuff. They have obviously upped the ante.
GEORGE DIX I think we?re very frustrated because we haven?t been able to get our hands around the problem to de...
LOUISE DIX Our bark is worse than our bite, and people know it.
LOUISE DIX They've been looking at him for a couple of years and I think where they want to play him will be go...
JOE DIX We just couldn't make shots. They made them and we didn't.
JOE DIX It's just evolved every year. It's almost at the point where (the win total) can't be broken unless ...
JOE DIX We will definitely earn it this year, not that we didn't in the past. But with this team and some of...
JOE DIX I thought both guys did a great job of stepping up when the team needed them. You couldn't have aske...
JOE DIX I also thought Walter was much more aggressive than the last few games and showed the things he can ...
JOE DIX Our intensity on defense was much, much better. I thought we responded well as a team after the loss...
JOE DIX Lee Coleman was the difference (between Saturday and Tuesday). Anybody who thinks he's not valuable ...
JOE DIX We had a nice run (with the streak) but it's not the main thing. That's for the fans to enjoy. What ...
JOE DIX I think everyone saw (tonight) just how important Lee is to this team. We had guys handling the ball...
JOE DIX If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries...
DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi...
DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle.
DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th...
DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa...
DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of...
DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...
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DOROTHY DAY There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you shou...
DOROTHY HAMILL The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsa...
DOROTHY NEVILL He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts...
DOROTHY DAY He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summa...
DOROTHY UHNAK If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increa...
DOROTHY DAY