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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

– Jeremy TaylorRate it:

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

– Thomas SzaszRate it:

Adulthood is within the mind and not in age.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

– Lois McMaster BujoldRate it:

Adults are just children who earn money.

– Kenneth BranaughRate it:

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

– Dr. SeussRate it:

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

– Elias CanettiRate it:

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

– Karl KrausRate it:

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

– Kahlil GibranRate it:

Adventure and excitement are the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes. You'll never feel as alive as when death is over your shoulder.

– James BridwellRate it:

Adventure is not outside a man it is within.

– David GraysonRate it:

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

– Amelia EarhartRate it:

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.

– John AmattRate it:

Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.

– Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924)Rate it:

Adventures are stories of discomfort told in comfort.

– Tim CamutiRate it:

Adventures are what make life interesting and entering their world is what makes life meaningful.

– Prof.Salam Al ShereidaRate it:

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

– William A. WardRate it:

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

– Lois McMaster BujoldRate it:

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

– Sren Aaby KierkegaardRate it:

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

– Samuel JohnsonRate it:

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

– HoraceRate it:

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.Rate it:

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

– Jean-Jacques RousseauRate it:

Adversity is designed to eventually promote you never to demote you, strenghten you never to weaken you and make you never to mar you.

– Emeasoba GeorgeRate it:

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