Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732
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Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950