’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BC
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One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949