(1619 quotes found)
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children”
William Penn
“Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about”
Louis Kronenberger
“We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.”
Camille Paglia
“Good families are generally worse than any others.”
Anthony Hope
“A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.”
Carl Andre
“Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything”
Gertrude Stein
“Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.”
Margaret Beckett
“And what have kings that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?”
William Shakespeare
“My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.”
William S. Burroughs
“He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.”
Terry Cohen