I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877
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Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbOne’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922