Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984
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Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCThe mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCHe who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThose who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944