Quotes from Mardy Grothe

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I pick up favorite quotations, and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Don't let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

Metaphor is a way of thought long before it is a way with words.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—                               I took the road less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —ROBERT FROST

In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. —CYRIL CONNOLLY

what may be the oldest analogy ever recorded, from around 1350 B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton was said to have observed: As the moon retains her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remains perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. —KURT VONNEGUT JR.

Listening . . . means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

An analogy says that A is to B as C is to D. A metaphor says that A is B, or substitutes B for A. A simile says that A is like B.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. —GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Comfort was the author of The Joy of Sex, an illustrated 1972

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