A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69
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It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCA world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956