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"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." »Norm Papernick
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"My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this." »Real Live Preacher
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"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked." »Warren Buffett
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"It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked." »Warren Buffett
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"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth." »Agnes Repplier
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"You're born naked, the rest is drag." »Ru Paul
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"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly." »Rosalind Russell
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"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society." »Mark Twain
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"We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent." »Alison Lurie
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"Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth." »Hubert Humphrey
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"Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking." »Dave Barry
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"An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout." »Unknown
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"And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." »William Shakespeare
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"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud." »William Blake
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?" »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks." »Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
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"But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil." »William Shakespeare
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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." »Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." »Mother Theresa
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms." »Robert Heinlein
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