To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833
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Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992