A Quote by Michel de Montaigne
When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.
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Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.
Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.
Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!
Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
Soderquist's Paradox: There are more horses' asses than horses.
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.
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