One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929
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Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCAs bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 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. 95What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728