Social Taboos quotes
35 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."
"If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope."
"I swear, I wanna be your underwear."
"There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one."
"I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me."
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"He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear."
"Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead."
"I'm in love with my second cousin."
"Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool."
"They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes."
"Got 27 children I never see."
