To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
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Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCAny serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbFear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842