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Quotes of the Day for 9 April 2005 – Nudity
Hugh Marston Heffner was born at Chicago on this day in 1926. He later built a fortune, and apparently enjoyed himself, selling pictures of nude women. His contributions to society may be open to debate, but he gave hope to generations of adolescent boys. And there really were some good articles in Playboy!
The quotes:
Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.
- Janet Lembke, Skinny Dipping
There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."
- Jerry Seinfield
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.
- Paul Gauguin, Noa, Noa: The Tahitian Journal
Nudity on the stage? I think it's disgusting, shameful and unpatriotic. But if I were twenty-two with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.
- Shelley Winters
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