One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958
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The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCOurs is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCThese 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. 95Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911