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Letter "A" » adulteries
«Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.»
«Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another»
Author: Xenophanes
(Poet)
| Keywords:
adulteries, ascribed, deceiving, disgrace, Hesiod, homer, mortals, stealing
«Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say ''Phooey,'' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
adulteries, adultery, betrayed, constantly, fancy, gun, reaching, spoils, subjugate, subjugated, subjugation, The Rules
«For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: / All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
adulteries, blasphemy, covetousness, defile, evil eye, foolishness, lasciviousness, thefts
«For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: / These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.»
«Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; / Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.»
«I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?»
«He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
adulteries, adultery, inch, office, smaller, tiny
«Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
adulteries, adultery, caught, Caught in The Act, For some, for some reason, guilty, obvious
«I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.»
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