eslobrown – Page 3 – Oxymoron List

The ever-alert, the conscientiously wakeful — how many fine things they fail to see.

Author: Norman Douglas

We must always be on the lookout for perverse dynamic processes which carry even good things to excess. It is precisely these excesses which become the most evil things . . . . The devil, after all, is a fallen angel.

Author: Kenneth E. Boulding

I now accept with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, “Are you an American?” and merely return the accurate answer, “Yes, I am a Canadian.”

Author: Lester B. Pearson

A friend of mine, contemplating the English department: “There are plenty of vacancies, but they’re all filled.”

Author: Christopher Ricks

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, “What the hell good would that do?”

Author: Ronnie Shakes

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then nine times out of ten it will.

Author: Paul Harvey

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn’t.

Author: Pierre De Beaumarchais

The physical union of the sexes only intensifies man’s sense of solitude.

Author: Nicolas Berdyaev

Such ever was love’s way; to rise, it stoops.

Author: Robert Browning

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Author: Yul Brynner

Of course, it’s possible to love a human being — if you don’t know them too well.

Author: Charles Bukowski

You have to be very fond of men to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable.

Author: Marguerite Duras

The tragedy is not that love doesn’t last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Author: Shirley Hazzard

A woman is more responsive to a man’s forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Author: Jules Janin

The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.

Author: Margo Kaufman

Personally I think if a woman hasn’t met the right man by the time she’s twenty-four, she may be lucky.

Author: Deborah Kerr

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman’s greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn’t want her.

Author: Helen Rowland

One of the advantages of living alone is that you don’t have to wake up in the arms of a loved one.

Author: Anna Marion Smith

Lovers’ quarrels are the renewal of love.

Author: Terence (Second Century B.C.)

The best thing about being attracted to unavailable men is that they’re always available.

Author: Meg Tilley

I like men to behave like men — strong and childish.

Author: Francoise Sagan

If I had had a pistol I would have shot him — either that or fallen at his feet. There is no middle way when one loves.

Author: Lady Laura Troubridge

A bad woman always has something she regards as a curse — a real bit of goodness hidden away somewhere.

Author: Lady Laura Troubridge

There is . . . no woman so naked as one you can see to be naked under her clothes.

Author: Michael Frayn

There are two things I have always loved madly . . . women and celibacy.

Author: Nicolas De Chamfort

I had to give up masochism — I was enjoying it too much.

Author: Mel Calman

Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Author: Kathleen Norris

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.

Author: Shana Alexander

The cannon thunders . . . limbs fly in all directions . . . one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice . . . it’s Humanity in search of happiness.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.

Author: Josh Billings

It’s usually the most wounded among us who inflict pain on others.

Author: Patti Davis

Th’ fav’rite pastime iv civilized man is croolty to other civilized man.

Author: Finley Peter Dunne

Success has ruin’d many a man.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

person who is going to commit an inhuman act invariably excuses himself by saying, “I’m only human, after all.” SYDNEY J.

Author: Harris

We never do anything well ’till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Author: William Hazlitt

A permanent state of transition is man’s most noble condition.

Author: Juan Ramon Jimenez

We spend our time envying people who we wouldn’t like to be.

Author: Jean Rostand

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man’s extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

Author: Anthony Storr

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it and when he can.

Author: Mark Twain

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don’t understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Author: Jane Wagner

What a man enjoys about a woman’s clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

Author: Brendan Behan

What a recreation it is to be in love! It sets the heart aching so delicately, there’s no taking a wink of sleep for the pleasure of the pain.

Author: George Colman The Younger

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. And more romantic. And also more annoyed when he talks with his mouth full. And you also resent it more when he interrupts you. And you also respect him less when he shows any weakness. And furthermore, when you ask him to pick you up at the airport and he tells you he can’t do it because he’s busy, it’s only when you love him that you hate him.

Author: Judith Viorst

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he’s the wrong one for me.

Author: Linda Barnes

Now what I love in women is, they won’t Or can’t do otherwise than lie, but do it So well, the very truth seems false.

Author: Lord Byron

A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss.

Author: Abraham Cowley

Once made equal to a man, woman becomes his superior.

Author: Socrates (Fifth Century B.C.)

The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.

Author: Lionel Strachey

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Author: August Strindberg

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

Author: August Strindberg