Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750
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There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCIt is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928