Quote of the Day for 2016-09-19

"But look, you are hiding a lance under your clothes, surely."

— Aristophanes (circa 446-386 BCE) Lysistrata, scene 6 (411 BCE) translation was done anonymously, but is presumed to have been Oscar Wilde

Mae West as Catherine II, from her play Catherine Was Great (1944)

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-30

"Sports is to war as pornography is to sex."

— Jonathan Haidt (1963-    ) "The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives," TED Talk (March 2008)

"Well—what the hell are you staring at?," by EMK (circa 1941-45)

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-18

"My kisses are as light as fairy midges / That on calm evenings skim the crystal lake. / Those of your man would plough such ruts and ridges / As lumbering carts or tearing coulters make."

— Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) "Femmes Damnées" from Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) Translated by Roy Campbell in Poems of Baudelaire (1952)

Le Sommeil by Gustave Courbet (1866)