I got my cast taken off last week. Actually, I took it off myself. I was tired of wearing it.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Quotation from Thomas Paine
The economy is stuck in an unvirtuous cycle.
Quotation from Mark Vitner, Wells Fargo Bank economist
I think the bartender was flirting.
I am not a sexy woman. I’m not beautiful. I’m not a sex kitten. I don’t flirt with people, yet I’ve been tagged more of a sex symbol than women who truly are– and I that’s solely because I don’t reveal too much. People are curious.
Quotation from Shirley Manson
I like my women like I like my coffee… covered in bees!
Quotation from Eddie Izzard
Face it: Wooing is out, Woo Woo is in. Courtship in America ended somewhere between the time the television shows The Brady Bunch and The Love Boat were cancelled.
One good idea would be to invite the Pisces lady to your home to show her your aquarium. You should start your seduction process when she is engrossed in seeing fishes in your aquarium. Give her a kiss on the shoulders and this will automatically lead her to your bedroom.
Quotation from “Seduction by Sun Signs” (TheSecretsofSeduction.com)
A tall well-built woman with good
reputation, who can cook frogs
legs, who appreciates a good fuc-
schia garden, classical music and tal-
king without getting too serious.
But please only read lines 1, 3 and 5.
Quotation from a Personal Ad (DateHookup.com)
Nuclei can decay by positron emission; they may also decay by electron capture, so I’ll try to be positive for you. A life in equilebrium is a happy life.
Gravitation naturally does not exist for this observer. She must fasten herself with strings to the floor, otherwise the slightest impact against the floor will cause her to rise slowly towards the ceiling of the room.
Quotation from Albert Einstein, The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Quotation from Carl Jung
The receptionist in charge of the bathroom key got laid off some months ago, so I now possess my personal bathroom key, which is a huge improvement in my work environment. But last weekend, somebody broke into our building. We had to change all the locks, including the lock to the door of the bathroom. I am pleased to report the toilet remains safe and secure from intruders.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
When day broke, I used immediately to sweep my room out; and though I am by nature a lover of cleanliness, at that time I kept myself unusually spick and span. After sweeping up, I made my bed as daintily as I could, laying flowers upon it, which a Savoyard used to bring me nearly every morning. He had the care of the cistern and the casks, and also amused himself with carpentering; it was from him I stole the pincers which I used in order to draw out the nails from the holdfasts of the hinges.
Quotation from Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography (on planning his escape from prison)
Aldous Huxley called Chastity the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. It’s either that or my sudden addiction to animal crackers.
[Virginity] pledgers apparently gather strength from the sense that they are an embattled minority; once their numbers exceed thirty percent, and proclaimed chastity becomes the norm, that special identity is lost… Once the self-proclaimed virgin clique hits the thirty-one percent mark, suddenly it’s Sodom and Gomorrah.
Quotation from Margaret Talbot, Red Sex, Blue Sex (The New Yorker)
Since I’m on Santa’s Naughty List this year, I don’t want to waste the last couple of weeks before 2009 being virtuous. No no no no no.
Are you on Santa’s Nice list? Or have you been Naughty too?
“Scared of Santa” Photo Gallery (ChicagoTribune.com)
Adults Only: Gibbet Cage A pre-19th century style raw steel cage with four hex-head screw closures and a large suspending ring. (Fettered Pleasures)
I’ve never liked people who were “Goody-Goody” because I could never live up to their standards. And that’s the point: why are their standards necessarily better than mine, especially in matters that shouldn’t concern them? If they think I’m naughty, it’s their problem.
*Note to Santa: If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you.
No one’s gonna tell me
What’s wrong or what’s right
Or tell me who to eat with sleep with
Or that I’ve won the big fight
Song by Adam Ant, Goody Two Shoes
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Quotation from Albert Camus, Moderation and Excess
I make a virtue of my suffering.
Quotation from Robert Frost, New Hampshire