I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971
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An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCAt night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCEvery ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858